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
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
This week on the Faith Angle podcast, we are joined by Ken Miller and George Seay.
Guests
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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Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we are joined by Andy Smarick and Tim Schultz.
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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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Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we are joined by Rod Dreher and Andrew Sullivan.
Guests:
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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Monday Aug 03, 2020
Monday Aug 03, 2020
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
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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Friday Jul 10, 2020
Friday Jul 10, 2020
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
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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Tuesday Jun 23, 2020
Tuesday Jun 23, 2020
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
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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Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 05, 2020
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
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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Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
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:
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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Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
This week on the Faith Angle podcast, we are joined by Andy Crouch and Sarah Pulliam Bailey.
Andy Crouch is partner for theology and culture at Praxis, an organization that works as a creative engine for redemptive entrepreneurship. His two most recent books—2017's The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place and 2016's Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing—build on the vision of faith, culture, and the image of God laid out in his previous books Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power and Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling.
Sarah Pulliam Bailey runs The Washington Post's religion vertical. She covers how faith intersects with everything, including politics, culture, education, abortion and immigration. Before joining The Post, she was a national correspondent for Religion News Service. She was also online editor of Christianity Today magazine.
Guests:
Links:
- Love in the Time of Coronavirus
- Leading Beyond the Blizzard: Why Every Organization Is Now a Startup
- Should older Americans die to save the economy? Ethicists call it a false choice.
- Coronavirus & Quarantine: What Big Questions Can We Be Asking?
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Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we are joined by Asma Uddin and Daniel Harrell.
Asma Uddin is currently an expert advisor on religious liberty to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Inclusive America Project Fellow at the Aspen Institute, and senior scholar at the Freedom Forum Institute. She is also a Berkley Center research fellow. In addition to her expertise in religious liberty, Uddin writes and speaks on gender and Islam, and she is the founding editor-in-chief of altmuslimah.com.
Daniel Harrell is Editor-in-Chief of Christianity Today. Formerly, he served ten years as Senior Minister of Colonial Church, Edina, Minnesota, and for 23 years before that as preaching minister at Park Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts. He has taught at Gordon-Conwell, Fuller and Bethel seminaries, as well as at Boston University and Harvard University. He served for many years on the Community Ethics Committee of the Harvard University Hospitals and on the Advisory Council of Biologos.
Guests:
Links:
- When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America's Fight for Religious Freedom, by Asma Uddin
- Inclusive America Project
- Introducing Christianity Today’s New Editor in Chief
- Steve Waldman Facebook post about National Religious Broadcasters incident
- Attorney General William Barr Remarks at the 2020 National Religious Broadcasters Convention