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Editor's note
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This morning faith leaders, politicians and businesspeople will gather to break bread and drink coffee at the National Prayer Breakfast. It will be Donald Trump’s first time to attend as president but the event itself is now 65 years old. As Diane Winston of USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism writes, presidents from Dwight Eisenhower on “have used the prayer breakfast to burnish their image and promote their agendas.”
Faith, religious institutions, spirituality are all part and parcel of American life. But they are often misunderstood. That is why we are excited to launch today, with support from the Lilly Endowment, our Ethics & Religion desk. Research on topics such as the diversity of evangelical movements, the history of Islam in America and the ethics of genetic engineering is being done in hundreds of academic institutions across the U.S. But these scholars’ voices have not been regularly heard in the general media. Now they will be.
We very much welcome your getting in touch with suggestions for topics to explore and stories to tell as we build The Conversation’s coverage of ethics and religion.
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President Dwight Eisenhower at the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Feb. 2, 1956.
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Diane Winston, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
President Dwight Eisenhower started the tradition of the prayer breakfast. Since then, presidents have used the breakfast for their specific agendas.
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