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Bloggers are encouraged to watch live as eight of America’s leading thinkers on religion and politics gather at Regent University on Friday, Feb. 2, to answer the question, “How can religion and politics become like glue bonding us together, rather than like sharp scissors cutting us apart?”

WHAT: The Ronald Reagan Symposium 2007: The Future of Religion in American Politics

WHEN: Feb. 2 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET

WHERE: Webcast live at http://www.Regent.edu/admin/media/schgov/symposium07/

AGENDA: 9 – 11:30 a.m. (each presenter will speak 15-20 minutes on their noted topic, with a panel discussion/Q&A beginning at approximately 10:20 a.m.)

+ Hadley Arkes, Amherst College, “That Superintending Principle: The Author of the Law that was there before the Constitution and the Bill of Rights”

+ Daniel Dreisbach, Princeton University, “George Washington on Religion’s Place in Public Life”

+ Michael Novak, American Enterprise Institute, “Lessons from the Founders”

+ Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago, “Religion in the Public Square”


1:30 – 4 p.m. (each presenter will speak 15-20 minutes on their noted topic, with a panel discussion/Q&A beginning at approximately 2:50 p.m.)

+ Marvin Olasky, WORLD magazine, “Evangelical Political Models: Fenimore Cooper or William Wilberforce”

+ Darryl Hart, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, “Left Turn? Evangelicals and the Future of the Religious Right”

+ Michael Cromartie, Ethics and Public Policy Center, “Red God, Blue God: Is There a God Gap between the Parties?”

+ Michael Barone, U.S. News & World Report, "Politics and Religion in the Post-Reagan Era”


More information here.