Michael Cromartie

In Memoriam, 1950-2017

Michael Cromartie was Vice President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he directed both the Evangelicals in Civic Life and Faith Angle Forum programs. His area of expertise included issues at the cross-section of religion and politics.

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Michael Cromartie was Vice President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he directed both the Evangelicals in Civic Life and Faith Angle Forum programs. His area of expertise included issues at the cross-section of religion and politics.

Mr. Cromartie contributed book reviews and articles to many prominent publications, including First Things, the Washington PostChristianity Today, and World magazine. Mr. Cromartie also appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, NBC’s Evening News with Brian Williams, ABC World News Tonight, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, and the PBS news program The News Hour with Jim Lehrer.

Mr. Cromartie was the editor of fifteen books, including Religion and Politics in AmericaReligion, Culture, and International Conflict; and A Public Faith: Evangelicals and Civic Engagement.

A senior advisor to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and a senior fellow with The Trinity Forum, he was also an advisory editor of Christianity Today magazine.

On September 20, 2004, Mr. Cromartie was appointed by President George W. Bush to a six-year term on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, where he was later twice elected chairman.

Mr. Cromartie was a graduate of Covenant College (Ga.), and held an M.A. in Justice from The American University in Washington, D.C.


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Bruce Hoffman at the January 2002 Faith Angle Forum

Michael Cromartie

Bruce Hoffman, Director of the RAND Corporation, and Jeffrey Goldberg, writer for the New Yorker, spoke at the January 2002 Faith Angle Forum about religious and political motivations behind terrorist acts, particularly, the recent September 11 attacks.

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The Rules of the Capitalist Game

Michael Cromartie

In the acknowledgments for his new book, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere…

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Books & Culture / January 1, 2001

The War Against Boys

Michael Cromartie

Christina Hoff Sommers was a professor of philosophy at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, when her first book, Who Stole…

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Books & Culture / September 1, 2000

How to Infect a Culture

Michael Cromartie

What do the weird resurgence of Hush Puppies shoes, the sudden drop in New York City’s crime rate, the steady…

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Christianity Today / August 7, 2000

Stephen L. Carter and Jeffrey Rosen at the June 2000 Faith Angle Forum

Michael Cromartie

Stephen L. Carter, professor of law at Yale Law School, and Jeffrey Rosen, the legal affairs editor for the New Republic, spoke at the June 2000 Faith Angle Forum on the subject of religious motivations and arguments in attempting political change.

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Dr. Jean Bethke Elshtain and William McGurn at the June 2000 Faith Angle Forum

Michael Cromartie

Dr. Jean Bethke Elshtain, professor of social and political ethics at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, and William McGurn, chief editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal, spoke at the June 2000 Faith Angle Forum about the benefits and perils of religion in public discourse.

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"The Evangelical Kaleidoscope"

Michael Cromartie

[Book excerpt taken from Cromartie, Michael, “The Evangelical Kaleidoscope: A Survey of Recent Evangelical Political Engagement,” in David P. Gushee, ed.,…

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Dr. Leo P. Ribuffo and David Shribman at the June 2000 Faith Angle Forum

Michael Cromartie

Dr. Leo Ribuffo, professor of history at George Washington University, and David Shribman, Washington Bureau Chief for the Boston Globe, spoke at the June 2000 Faith Angle Forum on the subject of the new Christian right and its effect on politics.

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The Trials of Being Agnostic

Michael Cromartie

Wendy Kaminer talks with Michael Cromartie about the peculiarity of beliefs. Wendy Kaminer is the author of five previous books,…

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Books & Culture / January 1, 2000

Dr. Nathan Hatch, Dr. Grant Wacker, and Hanna Rosin at the September 1999 Faith Angle…

Michael Cromartie

Dr. Nathan Hatch, Provost of the University of Notre Dame, Dr. Grant Wacker, professor of history of religion at Duke University Divinity School, and Hanna Rosin, religion reporter for the Washington Post, spoke at the September 1999 Faith Angle Forum on the subject of evangelicalism and religious freedom in America.

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George Weigel and Kenneth Woodward at the September 1999 Faith Angle Forum

Michael Cromartie

George Weigel, distinguished senior fellow at the Ethics & Public Policy Center, and Kenneth Woodward, religion editor for Newsweek, spoke at the September 1999 Faith Angle Forum on the subject of Catholic worshipers and dogma upon entering the 21st century.

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Recovering Moral Order

Michael Cromartie

Fukuyama’s new book, just published by the Free Press, is The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social…

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Books & Culture / July 1, 1999