Introduction

Are We Safe Yet?
(Sept 18-19, 2008)

"Crumbs from the Table?" (Sept 21-22, 06)

"Religiously Incorrect?”
(Sept 15–16, 2005)

"A Crisis of Trust?”
(Sept 16–17, 2004)

The 2005 Sarah Smith Memorial Conference

Agenda Speakers

Religiously Incorrect? Public Faith in a Pluralistic World
September 15–16, 2005 | Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut.

Thursday, September 15
* 7:00 pm — Welcome — David W. Miller, Executive Director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture, Yale Divinity School, and Harlon Dalton, Professor of Law, Yale Law School

* 7:30 pm — “Crossing Boundaries: Private Lives, Public Actions, and the Myths of Modern Secularity” — Nancy T. Ammerman, Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies, Boston University

Friday, September 16
* 8:00 am — Welcome — Christian Scharen, Director of the Faith as a Way of Life project, Yale Center for Faith & Culture, Yale Divinity School

* 8:30 am — Floyd Flake, Senior Pastor of The Greater Allen Cathedral in Queens, President of Wilberforce University, and former U.S. Congressman from New York City

* 10:30 am — Mike Volkema, Chairman and CEO, Herman Miller, Inc.

* 12:15 pm — Lunch

* 1:45 pm — “Faith on the Bench” — Stephen Carter, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Yale Law School

* Panel discussion — moderated by Professor Carter with Joan Gottschall, Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern Illinois; Wendell L. Griffen, Judge, Arkansas Court of Appeals; Robert H. Henry, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; and William H. Pryor, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

* 3:45 pm — Closing remarks — Miroslav Volf, Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology and Director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture, Yale Divinity School