So the next generation with this institution will go on. Last june we had a thousand students attend a fourday seminar offering 120 courses. They came from 80 countries with 60 teachers, mentors. And next year, we will have more than that because they recommend others. One of our Facebook Pages, poverty cure, has about 1. 5 million lakes on it. And why is this . This is because im the oldest person on our staff. They are pushing this forward. They understand the social media. We are not the whole thing here we are part of it. We try to bring the conversation together and enable other groups like the Steamboat Institute and other very good groups should do more is what we are doing to the foundations of the American Republic in things like that. So we are doing it. But our website act in. Org and see the scholarship in materials and curriculum or you can use in your churches then your study groups and organizations and i pray god when you go there, you will see its topquality staff. It is once am. Its fun. Its interesting, factual innovative and on the cusp. Father, it seems like one of the real dichotomies is to come back here. [laughter] between the liberals and conservatives are the republicans and democrats as the democrats really seem to believe that if we just have taxes higher and higher in order to take care of all the societal ills that would either goal and i would just like you to explain why we have an opposite goal. Yeah. Let me offer a few correctives to that. The first is that i would say that the opposite of that error would be the error to think that if all we did was obliterate government, that everything would be fine. That is not true either, right . After the social connection comes in. Government has its place. It should be modest here to should be the resort of last resort. The resource of last resort, not first resort. The other thing i would say in terms of engaging the question not just a bunch of conservatives talking about this because we get together and complain all the time. But to say, what is it that motivates the progressives to say we need more money . The best motivation as a creation im taught to always stride and i am in the confessional all the time because i dont do this. Is to try and believe that that person who is calling for the abolition of private property for something close to it really intends by it. So what are they concerned with . They are concerned with the vulnerable. They are concerned with the poor and disenfranchised. Here concerned with racism and a whole host of things. Are they inconsistent and that is why i may sometimes impervious they show that too much government to create vulnerabilities. Yes. If we can just take that intention on their part and speak to that intention, we can say to them Something Like it is not that we differ in our goals but we differ in the way to get there. We dont believe that bureaucrat are political entities know enough of what i needed. It is not the government is too cheap. It is that government is too. I am not saying that about individual people. What i am saying is human redone as addicts rices the gulf and a market when does price signals are free you really know what the needs are. If you cut the information flow that comes from the decision of thousands and thousands of people reflect in their subjective needs in the market, based on what they buy and what they sell, what they demand as consumers. If you count the free flow of information coming makes society much more stupid based on massively really doubt now. Too many size 13 shoes and not enough size 9. 5 which is what happened in every socialist experiment in history. So to speak lovingly, gently with good intentions to their intention and then try and show them out. When they dont listen then you shove the sense down their throat. [laughter] Something Like that. Joking, joking. For the progressives watching the sun span right now, just drop their chablis all over the couch. [laughter] father robert are you a judgment or diocesan wide im a diocesan priest and id see people for calling mia jones away. [laughter] my reputation is at stake. Thank goodness i forgot we have a jesuit pope. I am in trouble now. My question is this. Is barack obama a christian, jewish muslim, buddhist . I am not in any position to say that because i never heard his confession. Ive never even met him. If i had met him until within spiritually, i wouldnt be able to answer that question. Let me say as an outsider, just observing as best i can tell i think he is what the political demands call upon him to be at any given moment. That is what i think he is. I think thats what these dedicated to you. [applause] and i say that with all due respect to the president and deep concern for his immortal soul. [laughter] over here. You are laughing. I meant it. Over here. Why isnt that we dont hear more moral outrage from the Senior Leadership of the Muslim Community and particularly the inlaws. If there is a group of radical catholics that were hijacking the religion. There is. But it would be sung from on high from the pope and yet there is the occasional imam and im astounded there is not a bunch of it. Thats a good question i asked that myself. It may be and this may not be the whole answer. It may be a combination such as their hierarchical constructs doesnt provide for that. They dont have been the way the Catholic Church does for instance the magisterium, Teaching Authority, the one Teaching Authority is the book the curve on and the scholars can comment on that but it is very rare that you have scholars who get together and say things. Are you a five groups that are authoritative, they have been good innings and that they have called upon youtube right now there isnt a mom i forgot where, maybe you just end or whack the word literally crying for the killing of christians in his own country. It may be in certain circumstances they are literally afraid to do that because of the more radical element. Here is my admittedly untutored take on the whole islamic theme that is going on in our country and in our world and that is i desperately want to believe and from my own experience with muslims, to believe that the fast majority of them are trying to live good lives and want to live in societies where people can live in peace and certainly historic way we have seen that possibility. But what islam has not had and what the church did have four thinkers like a guest in and Thomas Aquinas who took the church and its teachings and its history and applied them to different successive generations, how to develop the churchs teachings. I think it leads is suggesting. It awaits its thomas. How that would come about i havent a clue. For muslims that would be considered heresy. I dont have a dog in that fight in the senate than i am not a muslim, so i am not able to make those determinations. But if a peaceful islam were heretical to what we are seeing with isis, then i would welcome the heresy. The other thing that islam doesnt have that at least christianity has is an equivalent statement to the one which he says full text du quoin with caesars head on it and says render unto god thereby setting up a distinction between authority and power. Power is the foremost constrained as its authority. They are both forms of constraint. But power is a form of constraint that is external to the person. In other words, you are coerced from outside. Authority is the form of constraint that is interior so that when someone corrects see how and you believe that what they are saying is true, even though you dont want to do it you do it because he believes in the authority of the argument or of the person. That is why we differ with mrs. Cheney in this respect. We should be able to tell people what is right and wrong. And you should be all to disagree with me for telling you that. This is the wonderful basis of tolerant and society. Tolerance not acquiescence for the lifesize you agree with. It is saying i dont agree with that. That is exactly when tolerance comes into play. I will not raise my hand against you. The line we have to draw complex as i write islam is that islam does not have this division between authority and power. It is admittedly the theocratic vision. It is the 30th of n. Must be. If i am understanding this whole thing. They have to come up with another way of nuance in their road theology so that the vastly outnumbering majorities of muslims who want to live in Peaceful Society can articulate out from within their own indigenous tradition and theology to make these kinds of distinctions. High, it really struck me when you said there is an assault on reason. The past few years i feel like ive been living in a parallel universe full text people say black is white and went back and and obama carefully is working. When you say black is black white is white and obamacare will never work, they look at you like you were nuts. How do you deal with that when somebody . [laughter] you could make fun of them. I guess that wouldnt be when im. Dont give validating here. Ive been on the left for many years. Im a revert my catholic faith. I was involved with the political left in california for about four or five years a new jane fonda, tom hayden. You know, you dont like that . Debut coloradans for like that i gave jane fonda adjoined in the back of the Community Center in hollywood because she said tom wouldnt let her keep it in the house during the campaign, to which i said fine effeminacy wire. [laughter] i know these people as people. Or i used to. I dont hang out with jane fonda anymore. I know that there are many good people and they may not quite dead the point on why obamacare not only isnt functioning yet. Its probably functioning as well as is going to function because it isnt completely unrolled. But to help them understand a little bit about basic economics and why if you just went to a Grocery Store without any prices on anything, all the good meet would be taken first and there it be nothing left. It would be no way to coordinate the thing. That is the problem modeled with obamacare, but the Health Care System as a whole. There are other people present here who know much more about that. The question is a different question than the question of argumentation. The facts are the facts and we need to present those reasonably. It is a gentle way that speaks respect. It gets to core values where you can have a more fruitful conversation and maybe even a profound disagreement that need not be disagreeable, but sometimes become disagreeable. Brooklyn is that edge. I think we should at least try and do that. Okay. One question. Go to the side and then well come to you. Thank you. Many in the conservative movement, perhaps many in this room who believe conservatives need to call a truce on the social issues that because there but it rightwing conservatives religious right i should say have hampered our ability to win elections. I would be interested in knowing why imagine you disagree with that and i would like to know why you think it is important to talk about the social issues and in talking about them can you role model how we should do it taking perhaps abortion and traditional marriage as examples. Well, first of all the institute respects the labour and the conservatives in the mint and the bradley understood right side movement. For that reason medicine institute, we dont do a lot of those questions. On occasion i will sign onto something or i will speak to something in my capacity as a priest. But i feel there are so many groups that are doing such good work you should come as no surprise to you where i stand on samesex marriage or abortion. But in my work on them we deal with this lacuna that we see an economic understanding among religious leadership, broadly understood. I am not content i think the same thing applies to the social conservative movement as it does to the economic conservative movement in terms of the need for winston s. And respect for the people so that we need to speak with great love, especially on questions like abortion because women find themselves an arduous situations very often. Not the majority of women, but a lot of those women are having their third and fourth abortion. I think we need to speak with, you know, its really different as a priest when i get up and preach on abortion in my parish or cant true section, which i do and ive heard confessions on homosexuality, which i do. I have heard confections and i know people are struggling with these issues. I always have that in front of my mind was speaking about that. What we need to do is exactly what jesus did and im speaking from a theological point of view and i wont let you put it into your own daily wink. Jesus engages the woman who objectively has committed adultery and under the mosaic law, the penalty was stoning. Doesnt say dont stone her. First he engages the woman. Not directly at first. But she has the sense that he loves her and deals with her accusers and he establishes himself on her side and then he finally says to her but once i know more which makes the whole story. That is the hard thing. It is to hold it just is still permeated because Justice Without love becomes cruel teeth. That is what we need to do. How would you translate that into political want greek . That is your job to do that. I dont think was the points of fact that abortion is a losing proposition because all the polls indicate that more and more people are becoming at least to some extent more prolife than they were before. We are on a different curve with regard to marriage. We are in a different curve but i would apply the same thing to that, to engage people and to love people first and foremost and then try them over the passion and discuss these things reasonably. We are out of time. I wont answer too long. Dont provoke me. Very quickly, lets see if we can be a good team. How are we going to deal today with the alleged key progress says who are teaching our universities . We are going to uncover what they are doing. A lot of people dont know what that means. He just needs it uncovered. I think we need to respond politely because that is the antithesis of the entire tactic. You know it is poker. It is impolite. It did and thats why you have all of these kinds of incidents we see around the country where people are more and more of opera with one another with real stability. [applause] you will be in the hall signing books. Thank you father. The fact next let their religion, politics and social issues and how they relate today. This comes from the Danforth Center on religion and politics at Washington University who partnered with southern president ial history. Topics included a discussion about whether the u. S. Is a christian nation in the history of american muslims and the history of religious groups and immigration policy. This is an hour and 25 minutes. Good morning. Its a great pleasure to be here from st. Louis. I am worried nicely kid. The johns to Danforth Center on religion and politics at Washington University. And my job is to very briefly introduce our panelists for this fashion. Keeping the introductions very brief ive told them ive cut out the nobel prizes and other things theyve done just to make sure we get to their talks quickly. So here we go. Edward jay blum is professor of history at san diegos eight university. He will be our first presenter. He is the coauthor of call country of race in america 2012. The author of wpb deployed american prophet 2007. Henry forging the way for public, race religion and american nationalists in 1865 to 18982,005. Bloom has been awarded the good stuff award in the humanities by the council of graduate schools for the best first book i an historian published between 2002 and 2009. The Peter Seabrook award for the best civil war studies in 2006 and the woodward dissertation prize. His writings have been featured at cnn. Com, the atlantic newsweek and the new york times. This presentation for this morning is entitled in the bowels of a free and Christian Country. Our next presenter will be Rebecca Gascon associate professor at the history of new york university. They receive phd in 2006 from harvard university. She specializes in the history of race and slavery. She also has broad interest in the history of the Atlantic World and a comparative of the north america and the caribbean. She teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in many early American History. Her first book the baptism of early virginia, how christianity created race was published in august 2012. Professor goetz is a crazy cat lady despite living in new york city remains a rabid red sox fan. Her paper for today is entitled Barack Hussein obama the first muslim president. Arthur presenter is arlene sanchezwalsh Azusa Pacific university where she is latino and latina church studies. Her first book latino pentecostal identity as evangelical faith, south bend society one hispanic book award in 2005. She has authored more than a dozen articles and book chapters on the subject of Latino Latina pentecostalism and it served as immediate expert for outlets such as the new york times, the wall street journal and on being with chris to take it. She also served as expert on Latino Latina religious history for the pbs series religion in america. Sanchezwalshs book on pentecostalism, in america and a monograph on race come at the city and prosperity gospel. Today she will be talking about immigrant sanctuary and defined borders. Finally kevin at altering the university of illinois chicago where he is associate professor of history, cat studies and religious studies and associate chair of the department of history. A native of Los Angeles Kevin and scholes teaches 20th century American History and has special interest in religion after he shall studies in American Intellectual and cultural life. His first academic monograph tristate america, how postwar cat and jewish held america to its protestant promise