
Faith Angle
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.
Latest episodes

Nov 20, 2020 • 49min
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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Oct 6, 2020 • 40min
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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Sep 16, 2020 • 51min
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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Sep 1, 2020 • 43min
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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Aug 18, 2020 • 48min
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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Aug 3, 2020 • 47min
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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Jul 10, 2020 • 47min
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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Jun 23, 2020 • 47min
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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Jun 5, 2020 • 59min
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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Apr 22, 2020 • 50min
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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