Sponsored
by the Center for Applied Christian Ethics
Dr. Jim Skillen - “Public
Service, Rightly Understood, is Kingdom Service.” mp3
Dr. Skillen's
article featured in March eJournal.
The Rev. Dr. Floyd H. Flake "Reflections
on Public Service and Private Life" mp3
Dr.
Flake's interview featured in February eJournal.
Dr. Joseph Bottum - “The
Political Disaster of the Protestant Mainline.” mp3
Dr. Bottum's
article featured in February eJournal.
Panel Discussion “Christian Politics and Public Life: Retrospectus
and Prospectus.”
Part 1 and Part
2 with Q & A mp3
Featuring conference speakers Skillen, Bottum, Flake and Long.
Dr. D. Stephen Long - “Political
Questions Christians Must Ask.” mp3
Dr. Long's article featured
in March eJournal.
Speakers
and Bios
Dr. James Skillen is the President of the Center for Public Justice,
a Christian civic education and public policy research think tank. Dr.
Skillen is a Wheaton alum and has pursued further studies at Westminster
Theological Seminary, the Free University of Amsterdam, and Duke University
where he received his PhD. He has authored many books and articles the
most recent being With or Against the World: America's Role Among
the Nations (2005). Dr. Skillen and his wife have two grown children.
The Rev. Dr. Floyd H. Flake is a senior pastor
of Great Allen A.M.E. Cathedral of New York in Jamaica, Queens, and
President of Wilberforce University of Ohio. He received his D.Min from
the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH. and has done further
studies at Payne Theological Seminary and Northeastern University. He
has served at Lincoln University(PA) as the Associate Dean of Students,
Marketing Analyst for the Xerox Corporation, and later at Boston University
as the Director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center, Interim Dean of
Chapel, and Dean of Students. A Former U.S. Congressman, he was active
in working to revitalize urban commercial and residential communities.
He is a member of several educational and economic boards including
the Manhattan Institute for Social and Economic Policy and the Advisory
Board of the Brookings Institute Center on Urban Metropolitan Policy.
In addition, He has authored three books and is a former columnist for
the New York Post. He is married to Elaine and they are the parents
of four children.
Dr.
Joseph Bottum is the Editor of First Things, a monthly journal
which seeks to "advance a religiously
informed public philosophy for the ordering of society." Before
First Things, he was the Books & Arts Editor at The
Weekly Standard. A native of South Dakota, he is a graduate
of Georgetown University, with a Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston College.
His essays, reviews, and poetry have appeared in the Wall Street Journal,
the Atlantic Monthly, Nineteenth-Century Literature, First Things, Commentary,
National Review, Philosophy & Literature, and elsewhere.
Dr. D. Stephen Long is Professor of Systematic Theology at Marquette
University. An ordained United Methodist minister, he has served both
in North Carolina and Honduras and received his PhD from Duke University.
He teaches and researches in areas of systematic theology, theological
politics, and moral theology. He has written numerous books including
forthcoming Speaking of God: Theology,
Truth and Language (Eerdmann, 2008). He and his wife
Ricka have three children.
