Faith Angle

Carl Cannon and Ryan Burge: On Covering Religion

Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:00:00 -0500

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

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

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 11:32:17 -0400

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

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Ed Stetzer
Adrienne LaFrance

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Ken Miller and George Seay: Texas vs. California

Wed, 16 Sep 2020 10:41:44 -0400

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

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

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 12:30:00 -0400

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

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Rod Dreher and Andrew Sullivan: Live Not by Lies

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 13:26:30 -0400

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

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Mustafa Akyol and Richard Reeves: Reconversion of Hagia Sophia

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 16:17:34 -0400

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.

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

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 15:58:15 -0400

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.

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Ross Douthat and Lyman Stone: On American Religiosity

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:17:24 -0400

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.

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Susan Glasser and Micah Goodman: Seeing with New Eyes

Fri, 05 Jun 2020 14:40:40 -0400

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.

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

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 10:00:00 -0400

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.

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

Andy Crouch and Sarah Pulliam Bailey: Love in the Time of Coronavirus

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 13:08:28 -0400

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.

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Asma Uddin and Daniel Harrell: When Islam is Not a Religion

Wed, 18 Mar 2020 05:00:00 -0400

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.

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Yuval Levin: A Time to Build

Tue, 03 Mar 2020 05:00:00 -0500

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.

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Yuval Levin at AEI

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National Affairs

A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream

Stan Rosenberg and Alexandra DeSanctis: Augustine, Science, and God

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:50:17 -0500

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 trajectory of abortion policy in American life. She also hosts her own podcast called For Life, and is a frequent speaker on college campuses.

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Stan Rosenberg at SCIO

Alexandra DeSanctis at National Review

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For Life podcast with Alexandra DeSanctis

Mr. Darwin's Tree

Mark Galli and Napp Nazworth: Trump-Evangelicals and the Christianity Today Editorial

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:01:16 -0500

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Amb. Sam Brownback and Wajahat Ali: International Religious Freedom

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 01:41:27 -0500

Links from this episode:United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)Wajahat Ali, The New York Times

Shirley Hoogstra and Tyler Deaton: Fairness for All

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 15:25:54 -0500

1. Daniel Silliman, “LGBT Rights-Religious Liberty Bill Proposed in Congress,” Christianity Today, 12/6/192. Fairness for All bill3. Congress Should Act to Balance LGBT Rights and Religious Freedom,” by Tyler Deaton and Tim Schultz, Morning Consult, March 14, 2019

Daniel Krauthammer and Peter Wehner: The Point of it All

Mon, 02 Dec 2019 17:44:53 -0500

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 Endeavors, 2019 paperback, Charles Krauthammer, ed. by Daniel Krauthammer The Example of Charles Krauthammer, by Peter Wehner, New York Times, June 21, 2018

Ashley Berner and Alia Wong: Educational Pluralism

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:18:53 -0500

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

Matthew Goodwin and Henry Olsen: National Populism

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 15:34:10 -0400

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

James K. A. Smith and Miranda Kennedy: On Augustine's Road

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:09:58 -0400

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.

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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 and Love in India, by Miranda Kennedy

Interview: David Brooks on sin, Augustine and the state of his soul, by Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Washington Post

Pew Research Center Survey: In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace

Christian Smith and Will Saletan: The Belief Question

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:47:21 -0400

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

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Christian Smith, University of Notre Dame

Will Saletan, Slate

Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can't Deliver

Three Decades Ago, America Lost Its Religion. Why?

Nadine Epstein and Michelle Boorstein: The Enduring Legacy of Elie Wiesel

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:56:02 -0400

In this of Faith Angle, we take a look at the life and legacy of Elie Wiesel with Nadine Epstein and Michelle Boorstein.

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Brad Wilcox and Eugene Scott: Marriage Matters in the Age of Trump

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 12:58:10 -0400

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 around marriage in the current political climate; how factors like class and race affect the health of marriages; economics and the importance of gainful employment (especially for men); the connection between marriage and economic mobility; the effects of delayed marriage among young people, and much more.Links from this episode:Eugene Scott, Washington Post Brad Wilcox, National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia

How Divorce Lost Its Groove Don’t be a bachelor: Why married men work harder, smarter and make more money

Mike McCurry and Karen Tumulty: Of God and Presidents

Thu, 08 Aug 2019 14:12:00 -0400

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 Tumulty, Washington Post, 09/14/18 Former Clinton spokesman Mike McCurry finds his faith, marries it with politics, Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 02/22/14 How My Party Found God, Mike McCurry, The Daily Beast, 07/14/17

Naomi Schaefer Riley and Jedd Medefind: On Foster Care—and Parenting

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 15:21:33 -0400

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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 & Beauty…It Is Well, Jedd Medefind, CAFO2019, 5/8/19

Taming Technology, Jedd Medefind, Outcomes Magazine

David Brooks and Anne Snyder: The Power of Vulnerability

Tue, 09 Jul 2019 10:26:40 -0400

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.

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The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life, David Brooks, 4/16/19

The Fabric of Character: A Wise Giver's Guide to Supporting Social and Moral Renewal, Anne Snyder, 3/22/19

Evening Conversation with David Brooks at The Trinity Forum, 5/29/19

David Brooks' Journey Toward Faith, Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 5/7/19

A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream, Yuval Levin, forthcoming in February 2020

David Brooks on Weave: The Social Fabric Project, The Aspen Institute, 9/19/18

Why I Write, George Orwell, 1946

The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump, Peter Wehner, 6/4/19

The Magnanimous Man: In Remembrance of Michael Cromartie, Anne Snyder, Public Discourse, 9/7/17

Michael Cromartie introduction of David Brooks, The Gathering, 10/2/14

Anne’s email to David, p. 239 of The Second Mountain: "I want to reiterate that yes, grace is the central thing Christ offers, but that is the doorway. And it is to know him. I see lots of emphasis on striving in your note, and I appreciate its antidote to cheap grace. But the foundational fact is you cannot earn your way into a state of grace - this denies grace's power, and subverts its very definition. Grace must reach out to the broken and the undeserving. It must reach out to those recognizing plainly, vulnerably, their own need and emptiness. It can only find welcome in those sitting still.

Shadi Hamid and Sarah Wildman: Theology and Politics of Islam

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 08:58:44 -0400

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

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Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World, Shadi Hamid, 6/6/17

The role of Islam in European populism: How refugee flows and fear of Muslims drive right-wing support, Shadi Hamid, Brookings, 2/19

Islam in Modern American Society, Shadi Hamid's 2018 address at Faith Angle

Religious Conflict and the Future of the Middle East - Shadi Hamid's 2014 address at Faith Angle

First Person, Foreign Policy podcast hosted by Sarah Wildman, with Shadi Hamid, on Mohamed Morsi and the Passing of Egypt's Democratic Moment, 6/21/19

Left Populism and the Rediscovery of Agonistic Politics, Shadi Hamid, American Affairs, Winter 2018

Making Sense, Sam Harris's podcast, with Shadi Hamid, on Islamism vs. Secularism, 12/5/16

Mona Charen and Oren Cass: The Once and Future Worker

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 07:26:54 -0400

Stanley Carlson-Thies and Kelsey Dallas: Are Religious Freedom and Gay Rights Compatible?

Tue, 21 May 2019 12:06:32 -0400

This week on the Faith Angle Podcast, we are joined by Stanley Carlson-Thies and Kelsey Dallas.

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Pascal Emmanuel-Gobry: From Paris with (Populist) Love

Thu, 16 May 2019 09:49:41 -0400

In this episode, we sit down with a Paris-based journalist, Pascal Emmanuel-Gobry, who provides insights on the changing role of religion in Europe. Amidst the rise in immigration and growing populism across the continent, is there a pluralist vision large enough to introduce healthy constraints and advance human flourishing between discrete communities? In advance of a November Faith Angle Forum, Pascal offers his best thinking.

Emma Green and Michael Wear: Democrats Get Religion, Too

Fri, 03 May 2019 08:04:42 -0400

In this episode, Emma Green of The Atlantic and Michael Wear of Public Square Strategies (& former senior advisor to President Obama), discuss how Democratic presidential candidates are approaching religion—and what that suggests about our cultural moment.

James Astill and Henry Olsen: European Populism

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 14:52:22 -0400

In this episode, we sit down with The Economist's James Astill and EPPC's Henry Olsen—also a Washington Post columnist—to discuss European populism.The centre-Left will never defeat European populism if it fails to first understand it: https://unherd.com/2018/12/centre-left-will-never-defeat-european-populism-fails-first-understand-2/

An Inside Look at the 34th Faith Angle Forum—and a Recap with Jon Ward

Fri, 12 Apr 2019 12:22:53 -0400

At our recent Faith Angle Forum in Miami, journalists, scholars, and faith leaders came together for in-depth conversations on global poverty and injustice, faith and mental health, and race in America. This episode offers an inside look at the forum, with clips from the presentations and comments from journalists, plus an extended conversation about Faith Angle with Jon Ward of Yahoo News.

Jonathan Haidt and Peter Wehner: The Righteous Mind

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:45:36 -0400

Jon Haidt offers candid perspective on today's university campuses, contemporary journalism, public discourse, and his own journey—as well as ways to better equip iGen students in their pursuit of human flourishing.

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Jonathan Haidt

Peter Wehner

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Why a 21st Century Enlightenment Needs Walls, Jonathan Haidt, RSA Replay

Complicating the Narratives, by Amanda Ripley

The moral roots of liberals and conservatives, Jonathan Haidt, TED2008

Can a divided America heal?, Jonathan Haidt and Chris Anderson, TED2016

Let Grow

Heterodox Academy

Russell Moore and Christine Emba: Evangelicals in Contemporary America

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 10:13:53 -0400

The Persistence of the Culture Wars, Russell Moore’s 2014 address at Faith Angle - https://faithangle.org/session/persistence-culture-wars/Stop the Tax on Houses of Worship, Wall Street Journal, 11/22/18 - https://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-the-tax-on-houses-of-worship-1542918092The Storm-Tossed Family, 2019 - https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Tossed-Family-Cross-Reshapes-Home/dp/1462794807Signposts podcast, Russell Moore’s bi-weekly podcast about faith and culture - https://www.russellmoore.com/category/podcast/Christine Emba, Columnist, The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/christine-emba/?utm_term=.16f9da7373da

Arthur Brooks and Tom Gjelten: Transcending Contempt

Mon, 25 Mar 2019 05:00:00 -0400

In this episode, we sit down with AEI president Arthur Brooks and NPR's Tom Gjelten to explore increasing loneliness and disenchantment with American politics, the power of storytelling, and new ways to engage distinct audiences in pursuit of the common good.

Our Culture of Contempt, Arthur Brooks, New York Times, 3/1/19 - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/opinion/sunday/political-polarization.htmlLove Your Enemies, 3/12/19 - https://www.amazon.com/Love-Your-Enemies-America-Contempt/dp/1982608803Why Was the Dalai Lama Hanging Out at the Right-Wing American Enterprise Institute?, Vanity Fair, 2/26/14 - https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/02/dalai-lama-american-enterprise-instituteBe Open-Handed Toward Your Brothers, Commentary, 2/1/14 - https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/be-open-handed-toward-your-brothers-1/Tom Gjelten, National Religion and Belief Correspondent, NPR - https://www.npr.org/people/2100536/tom-gjelten

Trailer — Faith Angle

Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:16:35 -0400

Faith Angle is a podcast about the dynamic, enduring impact of religion in American life—even when we don't think it's in the room.