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"Center Conversations," edited by senior editor Carol Griffith, are based on conferences and seminars related to various Center projects. To receive a hard copy of "Center Conversations" please join as an associate of the Center by going to the Support EPPC page.

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Understanding American Evangelicals
A Conversation with Mark Noll and Jay Tolson
Posted: Wednesday, June 2, 2004
In December 2003, twenty-five print and broadcast journalists gathered at the Pier House in Key West, Florida, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two-day seminar called "Toward an Understanding of Religion and American Public Life." The session from which this "Conversation" is drawn featured historian Mark Noll, well known for his numerous books on evangelicalism, with a response by journalist Jay Tolson. What follows is an edited version of their remarks and of the ensuing general discussion as moderated by Michael Cromartie, vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. These seminars for journalists are underwritten by a generous grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, given with the overall aim of improving journalistic coverage of religion. [Read More]

Evangelicals, Islam, and Humanitarian Aid
A Conversation with Lamin Sanneh
Posted: Monday, December 15, 2003
In May 2003, some thirty representatives of humanitarian organizations, journalists, and policymakers met at the Ethics and Public Policy Center to ponder the role of evangelical relief organizations in post-war Iraq. The remarks of the main speaker -- Lamin Sanneh of Yale University -- are followed here by an edited version of the ensuing discussion. [Read More]

Evangelicals and Israel
A Conversation with Gerald R. McDermott
Posted: Thursday, November 20, 2003
Gerald McDermott, professor of religion at Roanoke College, delivered a lecture at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in late 2002 entitled "The Tension Between Land and Peace: Evangelical Christians, Israel, and the Jews." This Center Conversation consists of the text of his lecture, and the transcript of the lively conversation that followed. [Read More]

The Rise of Global Christianity
A Conversation with Philip Jenkins and David Brooks
Posted: Thursday, August 21, 2003
In December 2002, two dozen journalists gathered at the Pier House in Key West, Florida, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two-day seminar. Its purpose was to enhance journalistic understanding of current religious and cultural issues. [Read More]

The New Christian Right in Historical Context
A Conversation with Leo Ribuffo and David Shribman
Posted: Friday, June 1, 2001
In June 2000 a group of journalists gathered at the Black Point Inn in Prouts Neck, Maine, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two-day seminar. Its purpose was to enhance journalistic understanding of current Protestant evangelical, Catholic, and Jewish cultural and religious issues. [Read More]

How the Faithful Voted
A Conversation with John C. Green and John DiIulio
Posted: Monday, March 5, 2001
A seminar held at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in late January featured two well-known commentators on American religion and public life. They made informal remarks and then took part in a general discussion. Moderator Michael Cromartie is vice president of the Center. [Read More]

Evangelicalism and American Life
A Conversation with Nathan Hatch, Grant Wacker, and Hanna Rosin
Posted: Monday, July 3, 2000
In September 1999 a group of journalists gathered at the Black Point Inn in Prouts Neck, Maine, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two-day seminar. [Read More]

Evolution and the Curriculum
A Conversation with Phillip Johnson and Gregg Easterbrook
Posted: Monday, September 27, 1999
The Center seminar from which this "Conversation" is drawn took place in September 1999, shortly after the decision of the Kansas State Board of Education that a knowledge of evolution would no longer be required on the statewide tests given to students; local schools could teach or not teach evolution, as they chose. [Read More]

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Faith, Reason and the War Against Jihadism EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel's new book is essential reading in a time of momentous political decisions. Drawing on a quarter century of experience at the intersection of moral argument and public policy, he describes rigorously and clearly the threat posed by global jihadism and points a new direction for both public policy and interreligious dialogue, one that meets the challenge of jihadism forthrightly while creating the conditions for a less threatening, more mutually enriching encounter between Islam and the West.
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EPPC Fellow Christine Rosen writes a warm and affectionate memoir of her days as a school girl in a fundamentalist Christian school in St. Petersburg, Florida where "the Bible was our textbook," God the guide, and after entering the school gates, nothing was ever quite the same again.
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May 2009

Michael Cromartie

Faith Angle Conference

EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in May at the semi-annual Faith Angle Conference sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and held in Key West, Florida. Transcripts of the informative talks are now available online.

Obama's Favorite Theologian? A Short Course on Reinhold Niebuhr -- Wilfred McClay, a historian specializing in American intellectual history, offered an overview of Niebuhr's unique form of progressive Christianity and addressed ongoing debates about the influence of Niebuhr's work on 20th-century American politics and international affairs.

Religion and Science: Conflict or Harmony? -- Francis S. Collins, the former director of the Human Genome Project, discussed why he believes religion and science are compatible and why the current conflict over evolution vs. faith, particularly in the evangelical community, is unnecessary.

The Political Obligations of Catholics -- the Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, archbishop of Denver and author of Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life (2008), argues that Catholics should take an active, vocal and morally consistent role in public debates, particularly on issues such as abortion, the death penalty and other matters they consider central to social justice.