TRANSCRIPT: Mormonism and Democratic Politics
Are They Compatible?
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.  [Full Story]

President Bush Reappoints Michael Cromartie

Posted: Wednesday, May 23, 2007
On May 15, 2007, President George W. Bush reappointed EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie to serve another two-year term on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.  Cromartie, currently Vice Chair of the Commission, served as Chair of the Commission in 2006.    [Full Story]

TRANSCRIPT: Israel and the Future of Zionism

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.   [Full Story]

TRANSCRIPT: Religion in a Globalizing World

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.  [Full Story]

TRANSCRIPT: Understanding Religion's Role in the 2006 Election

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.  [Full Story]

Let's Stop Stereotyping Evangelicals

Posted: Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Critics have been warning about the theocratic takeover of America ever since 1976 -- the "year of the evangelical." This theme is a gross caricature of the 100 million or more people who could be called evangelicals. But the real problem is that it denies the profoundly democratic ideals of Protestant Christianity, while ignoring evangelicalism's deepening social conscience.  [Full Story]

Religion, Moral Values and the Democratic Party

Posted: Friday, July 28, 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. Conference speaker William A. Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and formerly a key domestic policy adviser to President Clinton, discussed the past half-century of American politics through the prism of religion and the strategic challenges facing the Democratic Party.  [Full Story]

TRANSCRIPT: Is There A Culture War?

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.   [Full Story]

TRANSCRIPT: How and Why Muhammad Made a Difference

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.   [Full Story]

Keeping Promises

Posted: Tuesday, April 18, 2006
President Hu will visit President Bush at the White House this week. The two leaders will talk about trade and Taiwan, but they should also talk frankly about Jigme Gyatso, a Tibetan monk imprisoned for 15 years for his association with a group of monks seeking greater respect for human rights in Tibet, and Cai Zhuohua, a Protestant pastor who was given a three-year prison sentence for distributing Bibles.   [Full Story]