We are a small academic Publishing House attached to the largest Baptist University in the world in waco texas. We are very focused, almost all of the 40 books we published each year are focused on academic conversations surrounding religion. Melissas book is a natural fit for our listand we are proud to be the publisher of it. I suspect that for many of you linda rogers needs no introduction at all. She served as special assistant to president barack obama and executive director of the White House Office of faithbased and neighborhood partnerships. She holds a law degree from the university of pennsylvania and she serves as visiting professor at Wake Forest University school of divinity and a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institution. She has received an honorary doctorate from Wake Forest University and the johnleland center for theological studies. 11 years ago Melissa Rogers coauthored her first book at Baylor University press, an ambitious volume called religious free
Good morning everyone. Welcome to the american enterprise. My name is mark and thank you for being here today. Were 15 years after the attack of September September 11, 2001. For those of us who live through it feels like yesterday. I think everyone of us remembers where they were on september 11, 2001 and how stunned our nation was at the ability of terrorists to penetrator defenses and reeked distraction. What do they want, most important like, what else are they planning. Today we take for granted the fact that we know the answers. We know they were attacked and taken out by al qaeda and Osama Bin Laden and in the early days after 9 11 we didnt know that. We knew nothing about the enemy who hit us. For the operational commanding or who the accomplishes were. On pronounced us there is to terror there that were waiting wavearry out the second way. There is the case im not work and then the humbling network which was a network of Southeast Asia terrorists who was recruited because they
Good morning everyone. Welcome to the american enterprise. My name is mark and thank you for being here today. Were 15 years after the attack of September September 11, 2001. For those of us who live through it feels like yesterday. I think everyone of us remembers where they were on september 11, 2001 and how stunned our nation was at the ability of terrorists to penetrator defenses and reeked distraction. What do they want, most important like, what else are they planning. Today we take for granted the fact that we know the answers. We know they were attacked and taken out by al qaeda and Osama Bin Laden and in the early days after 9 11 we didnt know that. We knew nothing about the enemy who hit us. For the operational commanding or who the accomplishes were. On pronounced us there is to terror there that were waiting wavearry out the second way. There is the case im not work and then the humbling network which was a network of Southeast Asia terrorists who was recruited because they
May have been more impressive had you said the same thing two, three, four five six months after the Boston Marathon bombing and a chance to sit in the jail cell and reflect on what happened to your life. But to get it two years plus after this and then to not explain i think a lot of people are going to be upset he made no attempt to aexplain his actions. If you believe the Defense Strategy throughout the trial, was that the big brother hatched the plan and dragged the reluctant starDzhokhar Tsarvaev into this conspiracy and frustrated that he did not try to explain why he did what he did, even if it was on religious grounds at least make an attempt to explain to people why you did the unthinkable, place a bomb in a book bag behind a group of people including children one of whom martin richard, the 8yearold who died. Extraordinary awful stories of victims about how tough their lives have been past two years and one strikes me the most is a gentleman who was standing behind martin ric
Global hunger and Food Security program. Supporters of Hillary Clinton trying to come up with a Campaign Theme of accomplishments. She created it goes on and on and on. Caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. The factor begins right now. Hi, im bill oreilly. Thanks for walching us tonight. Watching us tonight. Is the american compact falling apart. Thats the sung of this evenings talking points memo. There was heavy concern among the Founding Fathers about whether we the founding people would be able to govern ourselves after breaking away from england some leaders did not really believe the folks could come together to form a vibrant democracy. Adams and hamilton favoring a strong Central Authority to dictate behavior. They were wrong the individual states prospered and america became the most powerful country the world has ever seen. We are not a perfect country. Blacks have been treated horribly and that fact still resonates today. Also native americans were exploited and