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TRANSCRIPT: Religion and Secularism
The American Experience
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2008
EPPC Senior Fellow Wilfred McClay spoke on the historical relationship between religion and secularism in America at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life in Key West, Florida, in December, 2007.  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: The Religion Factor in the 2008 Election
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2008
John Green, author of The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections, analyzed recent surveys and suggested that the line dividing more observant and less observant voters - so pronounced in the 2004 election - may be blurring during this talk at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life held in Key West, Florida, in December, 2007.  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: Religious Literacy
What Every American Should Know
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Stephen Prothero, chair of the Department of Religion at Boston University and the author of Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know - And Doesn't discussed the issue of religious illiteracy in the United States at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life in Key West, Florida, in December, 2007.  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT:Global Schism
Is the Anglican Communion Rift the First Stage in a Wider Christian Split?
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Monday, June 11, 2007
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated this discussion featuring Philip Jenkins of Pennsylvania State University at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life in May 2007. Mr. Jenkins analyzed the growing schism in the worldwide Anglican communion.  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: Mormonism and Democratic Politics
Are They Compatible?
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Monday, June 11, 2007
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated this discussion featuring Richard Bushman of Columbia University at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life in May 2007. Mr. Bushamn addressed Mormonism and American politics.  [Read More]
TRANSCRIPT: God's Will
Iran's Polity and the Challenges of the Future
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Monday, June 11, 2007
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated this discussion featuring Ray Takeyh of the Council on Foreign Relations at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life in May 2007. Mr. Takeyh shed light on the role religion plays in the complex power structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran.   [Read More]
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]
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Religion and the Media
Faith Angle Conference -- Dec. 2007

Michael CromartieEPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in December at the biannual 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.

 Religion and Secularism: The American Experience -- EPPC Senior Fellow Wilfred McClay, a distinguished professor of intellectual history, speaks on the historical relationship between religion and secularism in America and argues for a distinction between two types of secularism.

 The Religion Factor in the 2008 Election -- John Green, author of The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections, analyzes recent surveys and suggests that the line dividing more observant and less observant voters - so pronounced in the 2004 election - may be blurring.

 Religious Literacy: What Every American Should Know -- Stephen Prothero, chair of the Department of Religion at Boston University and the author of Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know -- and Doesn't discusses the issue of religious illiteracy in the United States. 

Liberating the Limerick

God's plan made a hopeful beginning
But man spoiled his chances by sinning
We trust that the story
Will end in God's glory
But at present, the other side's winning
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

In his new book Liberating the Limerick, EPPC Senior Scholar (and founding President) Ernest W. Lefever collects, and organizes by theme, 230 limericks that "reflect facets of truth and virtue wrapped in the garments of irony and caricature." Click here to read more.