Upcoming UVA Miller Center Panel on Christianity and Democracy to Feature Laurie Maffly-Kipp

On Tuesday, March 18, at 11 a.m. EST, the UVA Miller Center will host a panel conversation featuring Bushman Chair of Mormon Studies Laurie Maffly-Kipp. The event centers around the Brooking Institution’s Jonathan Rauch and his new book, Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy—a book whose thesis was inspired by Dallin Oaks’s 2021 Joseph Smith Lecture at UVA.

Maffly-Kipp and Rauch will be in conversation with Director of Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law Colin Bird, and Miller Center senior fellow and Taylor Professor of Politics John M. Owen IV, who will moderate. The four will discuss the relationship of religion to democracy, as well as the claims made by Rauch that Christianity has not upheld its end of the bargain in supporting American democracy.

Registration for the panel is free for in-person and online attendance. Learn more about the event here.