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TRANSCRIPT: Israel and the Future of Zionism
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Friday, February 9, 2007
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated this discussion in December 2006 at the Pew Forum's semi-annual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life in Key West, Florida. In this presentation, conference speakers Peter Berkowitz, a Hoover Institution fellow, and Ari Shavit, a columnist for the Israeli paper Ha'aretz, offered a brief history of Zionism and argued for the continuing importance of the Zionist movement.   [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: Religion in a Globalizing World
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Friday, February 9, 2007
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated this discussion in December 2006 at the Pew Forum's semi-annual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life in Key West, Florida. In this presentation, conference speaker Peter Berger, professor emeritus of religion, sociology and theology at Boston University, examined the globalization of religious pluralism and how the peaceful coexistence of different racial, ethnic and religious groups has become a global phenomenon.  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: Understanding Religion's Role in the 2006 Election
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Friday, February 9, 2007
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated this discussion in December 2006 at the Pew Forum's semi-annual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life in Key West, Florida. In this presentation, conference speakers John Green, Pew Forum Senior Fellow, and American Enterprise Institute Resident Fellow Karlyn Bowman analyzed polling data to help journalists better understand the role religion played in the 2006 midterm election.  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: Religion and Dialogue
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Pope Benedict XVI is a world-class scholar, a gentleman, who says what he means and means what he says, so this was not an offhand remark at all.  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: Is There A Culture War?
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Tuesday, July 18, 2006
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated this discussion in May 2006 at the Pew Forum's semi-annual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life in Key West, Florida. In this presentation, conference speakers James Davison Hunter, author of the widely acclaimed Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America, and long-time critic Alan Wolfe, author of One Nation, After All, discussed whether America really is polarized by a "culture war" over key moral issues like abortion and homosexuality.   [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: How and Why Muhammad Made a Difference
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, July 16, 2006
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated this discussion in May 2006 at the Pew Forum's Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life in Key West, Florida. The conference speaker, Michael Cook, is widely considered among the most outstanding scholars on the history of Islam. In this presentation, Mr. Cook vividly described the merging of politics and religion in the life of Muhammad and how this legacy shapes the Muslim world today.   [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: Faith, Politics & Progressives
A Conversation with John Podesta
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Wednesday, April 5, 2006
On April 26, 2005, EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie led a discussion with John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress and former Chief of Staff to President William J. Clinton, at the second Pew Forum Lunch meeting. The conversation focused on ways to bring the faith of religious progressives into the media and public life.  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: Believing Without Belonging
Just How Secular Is Europe?
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Monday, April 3, 2006
In December 2005, EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions at the Pew Forum's semi-annual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. In this particular discussion led by Mr. Cromartie, conference speaker Grace Davie, who has a chair in the Sociology of Religion at the University of Exeter and is the director of the University's Centre for European Studies, challenged current perspectives on modern secularism in Europe and examined how Europeans view American religion.  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: Spirit Wars
American Religion in Progressive Politics
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, February 12, 2006
In December 2005, EPPC Vice-President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. In this particular discussion led by Mr. Cromartie, conference speaker Leigh Eric Schmidt, a professor of religion at Princeton University, analyzed the historical connections between religious liberalism and progressive politics and the current national debate on religion in politics.   [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: The Biology Wars
The Religion, Science and Education Controversy
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, February 12, 2006
In December 2005, EPPC Vice-President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. In this particular discussion led by Mr. Cromartie, conference speaker Edward J. Larson, a professor of Law and American History at the University of Georgia, viewed the controversy over teaching evolution in American public schools from an historical perspective -- from the Scopes trial of the 1920s to the intelligent design legal battles of today.  [Read More]
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EPPC on Book TV
Weigel Featured on "In Depth"

On Sunday, June 1, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel was featured on C-SPAN2/Book TV's program "In Depth."

Click here to view the program online.   


Religion and the Media
Michael Cromartie
Faith Angle Conference -- May 2008

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.


 American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues -- D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, describes eight fallacies or misconceptions he held as he began his book.

 Religious Voters in the 2008 Election: What It Means for Democrats, Republicans -- William A. Galston, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and an assistant for domestic policy in the Clinton administration, discusses the importance of the Catholic vote in 2008.

 How Our Brains are Wired for Belief -- What does brain science add to age-old debates about the existence of God and the value of religion? Can political parties and religious groups use scientific insights to influence the beliefs of others? Dr. Andrew Newberg and Mr. David Brooks raise these questions and share their insights with journalists.