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 Follow us | faithangle.org...
Nov 20, 2020•49 min
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 Follow us | faithangle.org...
Oct 06, 2020•40 min
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 Follow us | faithangle.org...
Sep 16, 2020•51 min
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 Follow us | faithangle.org...
Sep 01, 2020•43 min
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 Follow us | faithangle.org...
Aug 18, 2020•48 min
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...
Aug 03, 2020•47 min
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 ...
Jul 10, 2020•47 min
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 F...
Jun 23, 2020•47 min
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...
Jun 05, 2020•59 min
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 ventu...
Apr 22, 2020•50 min
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 h...
Apr 01, 2020•46 min
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-...
Mar 18, 2020•43 min
This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we are joined by Yuval Levin. Yuval is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. The founding and current editor of National Affairs, he is also a senior editor of The New Atlantis and a contributing editor to National Review. He holds an MA and PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Guest: Yuval Levi...
Mar 03, 2020•39 min
NOTE: We had some trouble with Josh's microphone. We apologize for his audio quality. This week on the Faith Angle podcast, we are joined by Stan Rosenberg and Alexandra DeSanctis. Stan is the founder and Director of Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford. He teaches early Christian history and patristics, and the relationship between science and religion—even producing a play about the remarkably unknown life of Charles Darwin. Alexandra writes for National Review, primarily about the trajector...
Feb 24, 2020•40 min
Links from this episode: Trump Should Be Removed from Office, Mark Galli, Christianity Today President Trump's Tweet The Flag in the Whirlwind: An Update from CT’s President, Timothy Dalrymple, Christianity Today Napp Nazworth Twitter announcement Nearly 200 evangelical leaders slam Christianity Today for questioning their Christian witness, Melissa Barnhart, The Christian Post Breaking News- CT v Trump, The Holy Post...
Jan 16, 2020•41 min
Links from this episode: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Wajahat Ali, The New York Times
Jan 01, 2020•49 min
1. Daniel Silliman, “LGBT Rights-Religious Liberty Bill Proposed in Congress,” Christianity Today, 12/6/19 2. F airness for All bill 3. Congress Should Act to Balance LGBT Rights and Religious Freedom,” by Tyler Deaton and Tim Schultz, Morning Consult, March 14, 2019...
Dec 19, 2019•48 min
In this episode, we're joined by Daniel Krauthammer for a big-think conversation about American democracy, Judaism, foreign policy, history and human nature, the power of ideas, baseball, Zionism, and the remarkable life of Charles Krauthammer (1950-2018). Daniel recently edited "The Point of it All," and Pete Wehner of The Atlantic and The New York Times knew Charles for decades—and worked in 2001 with Daniel, too. Links from this episode: The Point of it All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Ende...
Dec 02, 2019•52 min
In this episode, we're joined by Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy's Ashley Rogers Berner and The Atlantic's Alia Wong to discuss educational pluralism. Links from this episode: Ashley Berner | Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy Alia Wong | The Atlantic The Case for Educational Pluralism in the U.S. | Dr. Ashley Berner | Manhattan Institute No One Way to School: Educational Pluralism and Why it Matters | Ashley Berner | TEDxWilmingtonED...
Nov 20, 2019•43 min
Are we living through a populist moment or a populist era? Matthew Goodwin, Prof. of Politics at Univ. of Kent, joins Henry Olsen of The Washington Post for a window into highlights from his bestselling book, National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy---and its application to recent elections throughout the Western world. Book link: Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin, National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy...
Nov 01, 2019•39 min
In this episode, we're joined by Calvin College's James K. A. Smith and NPR's Miranda Kennedy to discuss Professor Smith's newest book, On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts. Links from this episode: James K. A. Smith, Calvin College Miranda Kennedy, NPR On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts, by James K.A. Smith 'Augustine: Conversions to Confessions,’ by Robin Lane Fox, New York Times Sideways on a Scooter: Life...
Oct 24, 2019•43 min
In this episode of Faith Angle, we're joined by Notre Dame's Christian Smith and Slate's Will Saletan to discuss Dr. Smith's newest book, Atheist Overreach Links from this episode: Christian Smith, University of Notre Dame Will Saletan, Slate Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can't Deliver Three Decades Ago, America Lost Its Religion. Why?...
Oct 08, 2019•45 min
In this of Faith Angle, we take a look at the life and legacy of Elie Wiesel with Nadine Epstein and Michelle Boorstein. Links from this episode: Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post Nadine Epstein, Moment Elie Wiesel, An Extraordinary Life and Legacy: Writings, Photographs and Reflections...
Sep 23, 2019•44 min
In the latest episode of Faith Angle, we take a look at the changing nature of marriage in America with Eugene Scott and Brad Wilcox. Eugene covers identity politics for the Washington Post's The Fix, and Brad is Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies. Brad, Eugene, and Josh Good discuss trends aroun...
Aug 27, 2019•45 min
Former Clinton White House Press Secretary—and now Wesley Seminary professor—Mike McCurry sits down with Washington Post Columnist Karen Tumulty, and Faith Angle's Josh Good, to discuss the faith journeys of the Clintons and Reagans; transformations in journalism; and new opportunities for congregations to directly engage the deep divide in America's political culture. Links from this episode: A private letter from Ronald Reagan to his dying father-in-law shows the president’s faith, Karen Tumul...
Aug 08, 2019•46 min
Links from this episode: HBO's "Foster" is disturbingly accurate, but it's missing one important thing: solutions, Naomi Schaefer Riley, Los Angeles Times, 5/7/19 Reconsidering Kinship Care, Naomi Schaefer Riley, National Affairs, Summer 2018 How Foster Care Became a Christian Priority - Just in Time, Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, The Gospel Coalition, 9/24/18 Christian Alliance for Orphans Christians Are Pro-Life After Birth, Too, Naomi Schaefer Riley, Wall Street Journal, 6/13/19 In Brokenness & ...
Jul 19, 2019•41 min
On the latest episode of Faith Angle, we're joined by New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks and Comment Magazine editor-in-chief Anne Snyder to discuss the new books they've each published, their respective approaches to writing, their own marriage and faith journey, and how to cultivate communities rooted in trust that lead to individual and social transformation. Links from today's episode: The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life , David Brooks, 4/16/19 The Fabric of Character: A...
Jul 09, 2019•34 min
We're joined this week by Dr. Shadi Hamid and Sarah Wildman to discuss the resurgent role of global Islam, the relationship between nationalist populism and Muslims, Sharia law in the Middle East, the role of religion in Western democracies, and the enduring question of how deep religious convictions can align with more lasting expressions of public pluralism Links from today's episode: Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World , Shadi Hamid, 6/6/17 The role of I...
Jun 27, 2019•48 min
Jun 18, 2019•46 min
This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we are joined by Stanley Carlson-Thies and Kelsey Dallas. Guests Stanley Carlson-Thies Kelsey Dallas Links Latter-day Saint leaders call for 'fairness for all' while opposing the Equality Act A Better Way than the Equality Act Nondiscrimination for All Health and Human Services and the Religious-Liberty War An Open Letter to Congress From Religious Leaders H.R.5 – Equality Act Follow us | faithangle.org...
May 21, 2019•50 min