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My Fundamentalist Education
Christine Rosen's memoir of growing up in a fundamentalist Christian home
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Wednesday, February 8, 2006
5:30 PM
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Wednesday, February 8, 2006
7:00 PM
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Ethics and Public Policy Center
1015 15th St., NW Suite 900
(Intersection of 15th and K Streets)
Washington, D.C. 20005
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When EPPC Fellow Christine Rosen started kindergarten, her ABCs included the Apocalypse, the Bible, and Christ. At Keswick Christian School "the Bible was our textbook," God the guide, and after entering the school gates, nothing was ever quite the same again. In her new book My Fundamentalist Education, Ms. Rosen describes how she learned creation science, dreamed of becoming a missionary to exotic countries, worried about the souls of Jews and Mormons, and sat through sex education classes where bricks served as props.
In this evening discussion, Ms. Rosen talked about her new book and how her "fundamentalist education" shaped her life -- not stunting the development of critical-thinking skills, but rather sharpening them and even contributing to the skepticism that eventually moved her away from fundamentalism. Hanna Rosin, a Washington Post staff writer who has extensively reported on religious conservatives and is currently writing a book about young evangelicals, offered her own commentary.
More Information
Scott Bond
1015 15th St. NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005
Fax: 202-408-0632
E-mail: scobo@eppc.org
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The Age of Neuroelectronics
For decades, experiments at the border between brains and electronics have led to sensationalistic media coverage, vivid science fiction portrayals, and dreams of cyborgs and bionic men. But recently, this area of science has seen remarkable advances -- from robotic limbs controlled directly by brain activity, to brain implants that alter the mood of the depressed, to rats steered by remote control. In this New Atlantis article, EPPC Fellow Adam Keiper explores the peculiar history and present directions of this research, and considers the challenges of staying human in the age of neuroelectronics.
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Blogging on the Courts
EPPC President Edward Whelan, the director of the program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture, is a leading contributor to Bench Memos, National Review Online's award-winning blog on judicial nominations and constitutional law. You can read a list of all of his postings here.
Here is some of the praise Mr. Whelan has received for his blogging:
 From Steve Schmidt, who, as special adviser to President Bush, led the White House's efforts to confirm the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito: "Ed Whelan was the most influential and valuable commentator on the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito. His remarkably rapid, thorough, and reliable responses to the distorted attacks on the nominees prevented those attacks from gaining traction. The White House was deeply grateful that he was on our side."
From Paul Mirengoff of the influential Power Line blog: "Blogs like NRO’s Bench Memos … enable legal super-stars like Ed Whelan to shoot down bad arguments against nominees within hours."
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