Carl Cannon and Ryan Burge: On Covering Religion

This week on the Faith Angle podcast, we are joined by Carl Cannon and Ryan Burge to discuss the 2020 election results.

Guests

• Carl Cannon
• Ryan Burge

Links

• Carl M. Cannon's Morning Note
• 2020 Faith Vote Reflects 2016 Patterns

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Ed Stetzer and Adrienne LaFrance: The QAnon Conspiracy and its Evangelical Adherents

This week on the Faith Angle podcast, we are joined by Ed Stetzer and Adrienne LaFrance.

Guests

• Ed Stetzer
• Adrienne LaFrance

Links

• The Prophecies of Q
• On Christians Spreading Corona Conspiracies: Gullibility is not a Spiritual Gift
• Evangelicals need to address the QAnoners in our midst
• The Evangelicals Who Are Taking On QAnon

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Ken Miller and George Seay: Texas vs. California

This week on the Faith Angle podcast, we are joined by Ken Miller and George Seay.

Guests

• Ken Miller
• George Seay

Links

• Texas vs. California: A History of Their Struggle for the Future of America
• Annandale Briefing Call with George Seay
  
• George Seay On Bloomberg Radio

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Andy Smarick and Tim Schultz: ‘Juristocracy’ and the Supreme Court, from Bostock to Espinoza

This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we are joined by Andy Smarick and Tim Schultz.

Guests:

• Andy Smarick
• Tim Schultz

Links:

• The Bostock Ruling with Tim Schultz
• Congress Should Act to Balance LGBT Rights and Religious Freedom
• Letters in the Time of Covid
• Liberty, Government, and the Preservation of Civil Society
• Protecting the Products of Liberty
• What the Espinoza Decision Means for Other Aspects of Religious Freedom
• Who’s winning the culture war? Answer: No one

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Rod Dreher and Andrew Sullivan: Live Not by Lies

This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we are joined by Rod Dreher and Andrew Sullivan.

Guests:

• Rod Dreher
• Andrew Sullivan

Links:

• Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
• Technology: A Threat to the Human Soul?
• The Weekly Dish
• Rod Dreher’s Monastic Vision
• See You Next Friday: A Farewell Letter
• The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

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Mustafa Akyol and Richard Reeves: Reconversion of Hagia Sophia

This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we are joined by Mustafa Akyol and Richard Reeves.

Mustafa Akyol is a Turkish journalist and author. In June 2018, he joined the Cato Institute in Washington DC as a senior fellow at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, to work on the intersection of public policy, Islam, and modernity.

Richard Reeves is a senior fellow in Economic Studies, where he holds the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair. Richard is Director of the Future of the Middle Class Initiative and co-director of the Center on Children and Families. His research focuses on the middle class, inequality and social mobility.

Guests

• Mustafa Akyol
• Richard Reeves

Links

• Erdogan Should Not Erase Turkey’s Christian Past
• Would the Prophet Muhammad Convert Hagia Sophia?
• Lessons from Jerusalem: The Hagia Sophia in Turkey is too disputed to turn back into a mosque
• Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty
• The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims

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Tara Isabella Burton and Jack Jenkins: Strange Rites and the Religious Left

This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we are joined by Tara Isabella Burton and Jack Jenkins.

Tara Isabella Burton is a columnist for the Religion News Service, and is a contributing editor at The American Interest. She is the author of Social Creature as well as her latest book Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World.

Jack Jenkins is an award-winning journalist and national reporter for the Religion News Service where he covers religion and politics. He is also the author of the book American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country.

Guests

• Tara Isabella Burton
• Jack Jenkins

Links

• Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
• American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country
• “CrossFit is my church”

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Ross Douthat and Lyman Stone: On American Religiosity

This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we are joined by Ross Douthat and Lyman Stone.

Ross Douthat joined The New York Times as an Op-Ed columnist in April 2009. His column appears every Tuesday and Sunday, and he co-hosts the Times Op-Ed podcast, "The Argument." Previously, he was a senior editor at The Atlantic and a blogger on its website. He is the author of "The Decadent Society," which published in March 2020.

Lyman Stone is an Adjunct Fellow at AEI, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and a former International Economist at the US Department of Agriculture, where he forecasts cotton market conditions. He blogs about migration, population dynamics, and regional economics at In a State of Migration.

Guests

• Ross Douthat
• Lyman Stone

Links

• Promise and peril: The history of American religiosity and its recent decline
• The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
• Webinar — Religiosity in America: Trends of the past and options for the future

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Susan Glasser and Micah Goodman: Seeing with New Eyes

For this conversation, we sit down with Susan Glasser, The New Yorker’s staff writer and columnist, and a journalist who participated in our first overseas Faith Angle Forum, last November. Susan is the author of two books, a 10-year veteran correspondent at The Washington Post, editor-in-chief at Foreign Policy, and founder of Political Magazine. This conversation is followed by an airing of a Faith Angle presentation from Dr. Micah Goodman, research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, and the author of four books.

Guests

• Susan Glasser
• Micah Goodman

Links

• Micah Goodman: "Catch ’67": The Ideas Behind the Arguments That Tear Israel Apart
• The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
• The making of POLITICO Magazine, with Susan Glasser
• Faith Angle Europe 2019

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Tim Keller and Peter Wehner: A Steady Voice in the Storm

This week on the Faith Angle podcast, we are joined by Tim Keller and Peter Wehner.

Tim Keller is the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. He is also the Chairman & Co-Founder of Redeemer City to City (CTC), which starts new churches in New York and other global cities, and publishes books and resources for ministry in an urban environment. In 2017 Dr. Keller transitioned to CTC full time to teach and mentor church planters and seminary students through a joint venture with Reformed Theological Seminary's (RTS), the City Ministry Program. He also works with CTC's global affiliates to launch church planting movements.

Peter Wehner is Vice President and Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and a contributing editor for The Atlantic magazine. Mr. Wehner has written for numerous other publications—including Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, The Weekly Standard, National Review, Commentary, National Affairs, and Christianity Today—and has appeared frequently as a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, CBS, PBS, and C-SPAN television. He is also the Pamela and Jack Egan Visiting Professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy and the School of Arts and Sciences at Duke University.

Guests:

• Tim Keller
• Peter Wehner

Links:

• Conservative Christianity after the Christian Right, Faith Angle Forum, March 2013
• The Moral Universe of Timothy Keller
• Preaching the Word and Quoting the Voice

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