Sept. 17–21, 2008

Conference media:

• Pre-Conference panel audio
• Conference panel audio
• Photo gallery
• Conference blog
• Conference video (YouTube)
• Twitter

Conference schedule & resources:

• Schedule of events (PDF)
• Conference program booklet (PDF—large file)

Awards banquet & contest links:

• Winners press release
• 2008 contest winners list & story links
• 2008 Lifetime Achievement winner (PDF)
• Lifetime achievement recipient audio
• Banquet audio

Sponsors & exhibitors:

• 2008 sponsors & exhibitors (PDF)
• Sponsored event audio

2008 RNA Conference panel audio

Covering Islam: About Islam (audio)

• Imam Mohamed Magid, director, All Dulles Area Muslim Society

Women and American Islam (audio)

• Maha ElGenaidi, founder & president of Islamic Networks Group
• Daisy Khan, executive director, American Society for Muslim Advancement
• Dalia Mogahed, executive director, Gallup Center for Muslim Studies
• Mona Eltahawy, freelance journalist and commentator

American Muslim Civic Participation (audio)

• Edina Lekovic, communications director, Muslim Public Affairs Council
• Zeenat Rahman, outreach and training coordinator, Interfaith Youth Core
• Farid Senzai, director of research, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
• Dawud Walid, executive director, Council on American-Islamic Relations—Michigan

Reporting on American Muslims (audio)

• Maria Ebrahimji, producer, CNN
• Anisa Mehdi, documentary filmmaker
• Tayyibah Taylor, Azizah Magazine
• Jamie Tarabay, NPR

Getting Up to Speed on Multimedia: A Practical Primer for Print Religion Journalists (video  |  video  |  video  |  audio)

• Lynda Kraxberger, Missouri School of Journalism

Welcome by Religion Newswriters
President Kevin Eckstrom, Religion News Service (video  |  video  |  audio)

Putting
Faith in Politics (audio)

• Michael Gerson, op-ed columnist, The Washington Post, former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush
• Amy Sullivan, national correspondent, TIME magazine

The New Religion Page (audio  |  video  |  video)

• Cathy Grossman, religion reporter, USA TODAY
• Sam Hodges, religion reporter, The Dallas Morning News
• David Waters, editor & producer, On Faith

Strangers & Aliens Among Us (video  |  audio)

• J. Kevin Appleby, director of migration and refugee policy, Migration and
  Refugee Services of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (video  |  video)
• Roy Beck, founder and CEO, NumbersUSA (video  |  video)
• Kim Bobo, founder and executive director, Interfaith Worker Justice (video  |  video)

We Believe In No God, and You Shouldn’t Either (audio)

• Jennifer Michael Hecht, author, “The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism and Anthropology”
• Barry Kosmin, director, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture (PDF)
• Paul Kurtz, founder, Center for Inquiry and author, “Forbidden Fruit: The Ethics of Secularism”

2008 National Survey of Religion & Politics ( audio | (PDF of survey)

• John Green, professor of political science, University of Akron; director, Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics
• Luis E. Lugo, director, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln (audio  |  PDF of handouts)

• David Early, Library of Congress
• Dewey Wallace, religious studies professor, George Washington University
• Ronald C. White Jr., author of two bestselling books on Abraham Lincoln

Press Conference: Obama campaign representatives (audio)

• Josh DuBois, Barack Obama’s National Director of Religious Affairs
• Shaun Casey, Wesley Theological Seminary

The Challenge of Catholic Schools (audio)

• Mark Gray, research associate, CARA (PDF) (video)
• Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl, Archdiocese of Washington (video | video | video | video)

Sourcing Islam: Nuanced Reporting on a Contested Faith (audio)

• Shahed Amanullah, founder, Halalfire Media LLC, and editor-in-chief, Altmuslim.com (PDF)
• Paul Barrett, assistant managing editor, BusinessWeek, and author, “American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion”
• Dalia Mogahed, executive director, Gallup Center for Muslim Studies (PDF)

Boggled by Blogging? (audio)

• Kristen Campbell (video)
• Manya Brachear, Chicago Tribune (video | video)
• Terry Mattingly, GetReligion.org (video | video)
• Andrea Useem, freelancer, ReligionWriter.com ( video | video)

Whither Congregations? (audio)

• Diana Butler Bass, author, speaker and independent scholar specializing in American religion and culture
• Andre Daley, leader, Mosaic Life (Christian faith community)
• Julia Duin, assistant national editor of religion, The Washington Times, and author of the book, “Quitting Church”

The Mission of Architecture (audio)

• Darrow Kirkpatrick , (retired) First Reader, Third Church of Christ, Scientist
• Bob Jaeger, executive director, Partners for Sacred Places

Surveying Surveys (audio)

• Roger Finke, director, Association of Religion Data Archives
• Ed Stetzer, president, LifeWay Research
• Dan Cox, research director, Public Religion Research

Wednesday Dinner: The Fetzer
Institute’s Love & Forgiveness Campaign (audio)

• Beverly Dorn Steele, director of Educational Services & Outreach for WTVI (PBS) and project director for the CLF in Charlotte, N.C.
• Josephine Washington, founder and president, Growth Resources International
• Everett L. Worthington, Jr., Ph.D., professor, Virginia Commonwealth University

Press conference by Baylor: “What Americans Really Believe” (audio)

Thursday Luncheon: Council for America’s First Freedom (audio)

• Robert A. Seiple, president, CFAFF, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom

Thursday welcome reception: Zondervan (audio)

• Cathleen Falsani, columnist and author of “Sin Boldly”
• Jason DeRose, NPR

Friday Luncheon: The DeMoss Group debate, “How ‘Christian’ Does a Presidential Candidate Need to Be?” (audio)

• Dr. Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Dallas, and author of sixteen books
• Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice
• Moderator: Mark DeMoss, president, The DeMoss Group

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