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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Dr. Wilfred M. McClay at the December 2007 Faith Angle Forum

Michael Cromartie

Dr. Wilfred M. McClay, Professor of Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, spoke at the December 2007 Faith Angle Forum on the historical relationship between religion and secularism in America.

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Pew Forum / December 3, 2007

Dr. John C. Green, Michael Barone, and E.J. Dionne at the December 2007 Faith Angle…

Michael Cromartie

Dr. John C. Green, Senior Fellow in Religion and American Politics at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Michael Barone, Senior writer for U.S. News & World Report, and E.J. Dionne, columnist for the Washington Post, spoke at the December 2007 Faith Angle Forum on the subject of religion in the 2008 elections.

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Pew Forum / December 4, 2007

Dr. Stephen Prothero at the December 2007 Faith Angle Forum

Michael Cromartie

Dr. Stephen Prothero, Chair of the Department of Religion at Boston University, spoke at the December 2007 Faith Angle Forum on the subject of religious illiteracy in the United States.

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Pew Forum / December 3, 2007

EPPC Vice President Elected as Chair to Religious Freedom Commission

Michael Cromartie

WASHINGTON — The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan federal agency advising the Administration and Congress,…

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Dr. Philip Jenkins at the May 2007 Faith Angle Forum

Michael Cromartie

Dr. Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and History at Pennsylvania State University, spoke at the May 2007 Faith Angle Forum on the subject of the growing schism in the worldwide Anglican communion.

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Dr. Richard Bushman at the May 2007 Faith Angle Forum

Michael Cromartie

Dr. Richard Bushman, Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia University, spoke at the May 2007 Faith Angle Forum on the subject of Mormonism and American politics.

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Ray Takeyh at the May 2007 Faith Angle Forum

Michael Cromartie

Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, spoke at the May 2007 Faith Angle Forum on the subject of Iran and its implications for the United States.

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President Bush Reappoints Michael Cromartie

Michael Cromartie

On May 15, 2007, President George W. Bush reappointed EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie to serve another two-year term on…

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Dr. Peter Berkowitz and Ari Shavit at the December 2006 Faith Angle Forum

Michael Cromartie

Dr. Peter Berkowitz, Associate Professor Law at George Mason University School of Law and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Ari Shavit, columnist for Ha’aretz, spoke at the December 2006 Faith Angle Forum on the subject on the future of Israel and Zionism.

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Dr. Peter Berger at the December 2006 Faith Angle Forum

Michael Cromartie

Dr. Peter Berger, Professor Emeritus of Religion, Sociology & Theology at Boston University, spoke at the December 2006 Faith Angle Forum on the subject of the globalization of religious pluralism.

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Karlyn Bowman and Dr. John Green at the December 2006 Faith Angle Forum

Michael Cromartie

Dr. John C. Green, Senior Fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, and Karlyn Bowman, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, spoke at the December 2006 Faith Angle Forum on the subject of religion’s role in the 2006 elections.

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Let’s Stop Stereotyping Evangelicals

Michael Cromartie

It was in 1976 — the “year of the evangelical,” according to Newsweek — that conservative Christians burst upon the…

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Washington Post / November 8, 2006