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February 28, 2006

Finding the Common Ground for the Common Good: Toward an Evangelical Catholic Partnership on Public Policy

In March 2006, Catholics and Evangelicals met at Georgetown University Law Center to discuss "Finding the Common Ground for the Common Good: Toward an Evangelical Catholic Partnership on Public Policy." Georgetown participants included John Borelli, John Carr, and John P. Langan, S.J.; leading Evangelical participants were Ronald Sider and Don Eberly.

Featuring

Ronald Sider

Ronald Sider

Ronald Sider is Professor of Theology, Holistic Ministry and Public Policy at Palmer Seminary of Eastern University and Director of the seminary’s Sider Center on Ministry & Public Policy. An evangelical Christian intellectual best known for his influential book Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger and his subsequent social justice advocacy, he is the founder and president of Evangelicals for Social Action, an organization dedicated to promoting social and economic justice (and now part of the Sider Center).  Sider began his involvement in social justice after helping to draft the 1973 "Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern."  Other notable Sider publications include The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience (2005) and The Scandal of Evangelical Politics (2008). Sider has bachelor's degrees from Waterloo Lutheran University and Yale Divinity School and a MA and PhD in history from Yale University.

Participants

John Borelli

John Borelli

Dr. John Borelli is the Special Assistant to the President for Interreligious Initiatives at Georgetown University, a post he has held since 2004, and is responsible particularly for designing and coordinating special projects that further the...
John Carr

John Carr

As Executive Director of the Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development at the United States Catholic Bishops’ Conference, John Carr helps provide guidance for the U.S. bishops' public policy and advocacy initiatives and also publicly...
Don Eberly

Don Eberly

Don Eberly is an influential civil society advocate who currently heads the Civil Society Project, an organization he founded to encourage moral and social renewal through an increased public role for non-governmental organizations. In 1994 Eberly...
John Langan

John Langan

John Langan, SJ, is the Cardinal Bernardin Chair in Catholic Social Thought in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University. His research interests include ethics and international affairs, especially applications of just war theory;...