
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

Apr 1, 2020 • 46min
Andy Crouch and Sarah Pulliam Bailey: Love in the Time of Coronavirus
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:
Andy Crouch
Sarah Pulliam Bailey
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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Mar 18, 2020 • 43min
Asma Uddin and Daniel Harrell: When Islam is Not a Religion
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:
Asma Uddin
Daniel Harrell
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

Mar 3, 2020 • 39min
Yuval Levin: A Time to Build
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 Levin at AEI
Links:
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
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Feb 24, 2020 • 40min
Stan Rosenberg and Alexandra DeSanctis: Augustine, Science, and God
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.
Guests:
Stan Rosenberg at SCIO
Alexandra DeSanctis at National Review
Links:
For Life podcast with Alexandra DeSanctis
Mr. Darwin's Tree
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Jan 16, 2020 • 41min
Mark Galli and Napp Nazworth: Trump-Evangelicals and the Christianity Today Editorial
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 1, 2020 • 49min
Amb. Sam Brownback and Wajahat Ali: International Religious Freedom
Links from this episode:
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)
Wajahat Ali, The New York Times

Dec 19, 2019 • 48min
Shirley Hoogstra and Tyler Deaton: Fairness for All
1. Daniel Silliman, “LGBT Rights-Religious Liberty Bill Proposed in Congress,” Christianity Today, 12/6/19
2. Fairness 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 2, 2019 • 52min
Daniel Krauthammer and Peter Wehner: The Point of it All
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

Nov 20, 2019 • 43min
Ashley Berner and Alia Wong: Educational Pluralism
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 1, 2019 • 39min
Matthew Goodwin and Henry Olsen: National Populism
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