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LEGAL REPORT February 27, 2004
Locke v. Davey and Beyond
Speakers Anthony Picarello, Vice President and General Counsel, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty; filed amicus brief in Locke case on behalf of Joshua Davey Marc D. Stern, General Counsel, American Jewish Congress; filed amicus brief in Locke...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT November 21, 2003
Lifting Up the Poor: A Dialogue on Religion, Poverty and Welfare Reform
Featured Speakers Include: Mary Jo Bane, Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Working Group on Welfare Reform (Clinton Administration) Lawrence M. Mead, Professor of Politics, New York Universi...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT September 17, 2003
Muslim Politics and U.S. Policies: Prospects for Pluralism and Democracy in the Muslim World
Muslim Politics and U.S. Policies: Prospects for Pluralism and Democracy in the Muslim World 2003-09-17 9:00 a.m.-2:15 p.m. Washington, D.C. Welcome & Project Overview Scaling Up Pluralism and Democracy Download transcript Political Transitions and Contests Download transcript
EVENT TRANSCRIPT July 10, 2003
God and Foreign Policy: The Religious Divide Between the U.S. and Europe
Featured Speaker: Andrew Kohut, Director, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Respondents: Craig Kennedy, President, German Marshall Fund Justin Vaisse, Visiting Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Center on the U.S. and France, the...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT June 17, 2003
God and the Inner City: A One-Hour Documentary
Comments by: Michael Pack, Producer and Director of God and the Inner City Featured Speakers: Rev. Dr. Wilson Goode, Sr., Senior Advisor, Faith-Based Initiatives at Public/Private Ventures and former Mayor of Philadelphia Richard Nathan, Director,...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT June 4, 2003
Ministering to Those in Need: The Rights and Wrongs of Missions and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq
Speakers Dr. Michael Lawrence, Associate Pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church Kate Moynihan, Deputy Regional Director for Middle East and North Africa, Catholic Relief Services Dr. Abdulaziz Sachedina, Professor of Religious Studies, University of ...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT May 20, 2003
Teaching About Religion in Public Schools: Where do We Go From Here?
Teaching About Religion in Public Schools: Where do We Go From Here? 2003-05-20 Conference took place May 20-22, 2003 Freedom Forum Arlington, VA Discussions (click discussion title for transcript)   Note: All publications are provided in PDF format. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required. Key
EVENT TRANSCRIPT April 9, 2003
Ambassador's Address His Excellency Martin Palouš, Czech Ambassador to the United States
Ambassador Palouš is a political philosopher and was among the first signatories of the Charter 77 document calling on the communist regime in power in Czechoslovakia to respect human rights. In November 1989 he became one of the founders o...
LEGAL REPORT March 28, 2003
Separation of Church and States: An Examination of State Constitutional Limits on Government Funding for Religious Institutions
Separation of Church and States: An Examination of State Constitutional Limits on Government Funding for Religious Institutions 2003-03-28 9:00 am-5:00 pm Chapel Hill, NC Due to technical difficulties, we are unable to provide the transcript from the Q&A of these panels. Session 1 : History o
EVENT TRANSCRIPT March 5, 2003
The Faith-Based Initiative Two Years Later: Examining its Potential, Progress and Problems
Featured Speakers: Stanley Carlson-Thies, Fellow, Center for Public Justice; former White House Associate Director for Cabinet Affairs Barry Lynn, Executive Director, Americans United for Separation of Church and State Respondents: Anne Farris, Wa...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT February 28, 2003
Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America
Speakers Wilfred McClay, SunTrust Chair of Humanities and Professor of History, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Hugh Heclo, Robinson Professor of Public Affairs, George Mason University E.J. Dionne Jr., Co-Chair, the Pew Forum on Religion a...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT February 26, 2003
Theology, Morality, and Public Life
Theology, Morality, and Public Life 2003-02-26 Conference will take place Wed and Thurs, Feb 26-27 University of Chicago Divinity School Chicago, Illinois Professor Elshtain: Good afternoon, I want to welcome you to this conference, to this event and to the Divinity School and to Swift Hall at the
EVENT TRANSCRIPT February 5, 2003
Religion and American Foreign Policy: Prophetic, Perilous, Inevitable
Presenters: Fr. Bryan Hehir, President, Catholic Charities, USA; Distinguished Professor of Ethics and International Affairs, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Michael Walzer, Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J....
EVENT TRANSCRIPT January 27, 2003
Sources of Basic Human Rights Ideas: A Christian Perspective
Dr. Max Stackhouse is director of the Kuyper Center for Public Theology and Stephen Colwell Professor of Christian Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author and editor of numerous books on a wide variety of topics including most r...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT November 15, 2002
Stem Cells & Clones: Theological Perspectives on Biomedical Research
Gilbert Meilaender is the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Professor of Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University. His work focuses upon theological and medical ethics. In 2001 he was appointed to the President's Council on Bioethics, which recently...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT October 30, 2002
God, the Devil, and Human Rights: A South African Perspective
Dr. Charles Villa-Vicencio is executive director of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, based in Cape Town. He was formerly the National Research Director in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Prior to that he was ...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT October 2, 2002
Religion on the Stump: Politics and Faith in America
Keynote presentations and discussion with Governor Mario Cuomo Congressman Mark Souder Moderated by Forum Co-chairs E.J. Dionne Jr. Jean Bethke Elshtain
EVENT TRANSCRIPT September 30, 2002
Iraq and Just War: A Symposium
Panelist include: Gerard Bradley is Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School. A noted scholar in the fields of constitutional law and law and religion, his books include Catholicism, Liberalism, and Communitarianism. He is the director of Notre D...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT September 10, 2002
Remembering September 11th: What is the Truth that has been Revealed to Us?
Featuring: Jean Bethke Elshtain, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, the University of Chicago Fred Dings, the University of South Carolina E.J. Dionne, Jr., Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, the Brookings Institution, Washington Post Jame...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT July 16, 2002
The Compassion Component: Welfare Reform and the Tradition of Social Justice
Panelists: Ken Connor, President, Family Research Council Ron Haskins, Senior Advisor for Welfare Policy at the Domestic Policy Council of the White House Sharon Parrott, Co-director of Federal TANF Policy, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities J...
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