Michael Cromartie is Vice President at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and he directs both the Evangelicals in Civic Life and Faith Angle Forum programs.On September 20, 2004, Mr. Cromartie was appointed by President George W. Bush to a six-year term on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. On July 1, 2005, he was elected chairman of the commission, on July 2, 2006 he was elected vice chair, and on July 1, 2007 he was elected chairman again. He completed his six-year term on the Commission in June, 2010.
A senior advisor to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and a senior fellow with The Trinity Forum, Mr. Cromartie is also an adjunct professor at the Reformed Theological Seminary. He is an advisory editor of Christianity Today, and served as an advisor to the PBS documentary series With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Christian Right in America.
Mr. Cromartie has contributed book reviews and articles to First Things, Books and Culture, Crisis, the Washington Times, The Reformed Journal, Insight, Christianity Today, Stewardship Journal, World magazine, and The Presbyterian Journal.
He is the co-editor, with Richard John Neuhaus, of Piety and Politics: Evangelicals and Fundamentalists Confront the World (1987) which was named one of the twenty-five best books of 1988 by Eternity magazine.
Mr. Cromartie has appeared on numerous radio and television programs including National Public Radio's All Things Considered, NBC's Evening News with Brian Williams, ABC World News Tonight, CNN, National Public Radio's Morning Edition and The Diane Rehm Show, MSNBC, BBC Radio, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, USIA's Worldnet international news program, and the PBS discussion program Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg.
On issues relating to religion and politics, Mr. Cromartie has been quoted in the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek,The New Republic, The New York Times, Christianity Today, the National Catholic Register, U.S. News & World Report, The Weekly Standard, The New York Times Magazine, The American Prospect, the Boston Globe, Associated Press, and numerous other newspapers and magazines in America and Europe. He is also the editor of:
- Religion and Politics in America (Rowman & Littlefield, May 2005)
- Religion, Culture, and International Conflict (Rowman & Littlefield, May 2005)
- A Public Faith: Evangelicals and Civic Engagement (Wm. B. Eerdmans, September 2003)
- A Preserving Grace: Protestants, Catholics, and Natural Law (Wm. B. Eerdmans, February, 1997)
- Caesar's Coin Revisited: Christians and the Limits of Government (Wm. B. Eerdmans, July 1996)
- Creation at Risk?: Religion, Science, and Environmentalism (Wm. B. Eerdmans, November 1995)
- The Nine Lives of Population Control (Wm. B. Eerdmans, September 1995)
- Disciples and Democracy: Religious Conservatives and the Future of American Politics (Eerdmans, 1994)
- Might and Right After the Cold War: Can Foreign Policy Be Moral? (Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1993)
- No Longer Exiles: The Religious New Right in American Politics (Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1993)
- Peace Betrayed? Essays on Pacifism and Politics (Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1990)
- Evangelicals and Foreign Policy (Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1989)
- Gaining Ground: New Approaches to Poverty and Dependency (Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1985)
Education
Mr. Cromartie is a graduate of Covenant College (GA), and holds an M.A. in Justice from The American University in Washington, D.C.RSS Feed
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