Faith Angle brings together top scholars and leading journalists for smart conversations around some of the most profound questions in the public square. Rather than a current-events debrief, our goal is a substantive conversation one notch beneath the surface, drawing out how religious convictions manifest themselves in American culture and public life.
Episodes
Aug 26, 2021
Aug 26, 2021
1 hr 4 min
This week on the Faith Angle podcast, we are joined by Luke Bretherton of Duke Divinity School and Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institution, who explore the religious nature of American politics and the political implications of American religion. Drawing from Christian and Muslim political-theological resources, they discuss the roots (on both the left and right) of today’s increasing pull toward illiberalism, the tendency of religion to take on the role of identity politics, and the mediating role of religious institutions in society.
Guests
Podcast Links
- Listen, Organize, Act! Community Organizing and Democratic Politics with Luke Bretherton
- The Wisdom of Crowds with Shadi Hamid and Damir Marusic
Additional Reading
Aug 13, 2021
Aug 13, 2021
58 min
This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we are joined by Fred Davie of Union Theological Seminary and Brent Orrell of the American Enterprise Institute. These scholar-practitioners share their insights on race in America, the condition of the American church, the intrinsic dignity and potential of every individual, the importance of listening even to one’s political opponents, and the search for vocational meaning and purpose.
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Links
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Jun 9, 2021
Jun 9, 2021
49 min
This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we are joined by John C. Green and Elizabeth Bruenig to discuss John's most recent book Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics.
Guests
Links
- Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics
- Evening Conversation with James K.A. Smith and Elizabeth Bruenig
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May 19, 2021
May 19, 2021
46 min
This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we are joined by Robert P. Jones and Jon Ward to discuss Robert's book White Too Long.
Guests
Links
- White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
- The End of White Christian America Kindle Edition
- The Long Game podcast: A conservative Christian book ignites debate over reparations — and faith itself
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May 5, 2021
May 5, 2021
52 min
This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we are joined by Andrew T. Walker and Haley Byrd Wilt to discuss Andrew's new book Liberty for All.
Guests
Links
- Liberty for All: Defending Everyone's Religious Freedom in a Pluralistic Age
- A Bipartisan Effort to Aid the Uyghurs
- Carl F. H. Henry Institute for Evangelical Engagement
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Mar 31, 2021
Mar 31, 2021
47 min
This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we are joined by Curtis Chang and Julie Zauzmer to discuss the relationship between Christians and the COVID-19 vaccines.
Guests
Links
- Christians and the Vaccine
- When will kids be vaccinated? Post reporters answer questions about the virus in the D.C. region
- HHS Partnership Center Special Feature: Dr. Francis Collins + Pastor Rick Warren
- Language of God podcast: Curtis Chang & David French | Christians & the Vaccine
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Mar 19, 2021
Mar 19, 2021
1 hr 23 min
This week on the Faith Angle Podcast we present the audio from our most recent virtual event, New Tests for American Pluralism, which featured Mark Labberton and Matthew Kaemingk to discuss the question: Does religion fundamentally undermine political democracy, or enhance it?
Speakers
Links
- Conversing podcast
- Called: The Crisis and Promise of Following Jesus Today
- Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear
- America Without God
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Mar 5, 2021
Mar 5, 2021
1 hr 10 sec
This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we reflect on the life and work of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (1948–2020)
Links
- How we can face the future without fear, together | Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
- Morality in the 21st Century
- Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
- "Why I am a Jew" by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
- Morality and the Common Good
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Jan 25, 2021
Jan 25, 2021
56 min
This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we are joined by David French and Ruth Graham to discuss divisions in modern America.
Guests
Links
- Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation
- How White Evangelical Christians Fused With Trump Extremism
- The French Press
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Jan 13, 2021
Jan 13, 2021
54 min
James Davison Hunter, one of the nation's foremost sociologists, sits down with NYT and Atlantic contributor Pete Wehner for a big-think conversation about our present cultural moment. A new IASC survey of 2,205 Americans, which James recently co-authored, argues that present-day American fracture along racial, religious, and political lines is more culturally profound and consequential than we think. With that springboard James offers a "climatological" view of present-day reality.
Guests
Links
- Democracy in Dark Times
- To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
- Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America
- The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump
- The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil
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