Ruth Institute Podcast
Making Marriage Cool -- Standing up for Traditional Marriage

(September 24, 2011) Dr J travels to Detroit to speak on family, economics, and Catholic teaching at the Fellowship of Roman Catholic Scholars. She also fields questions afterward.

Direct download: Sep28_11.mp3
Category:Family -- posted at: 5:43 PM

(July 29, 2011) This is the question-and-answer session from Dr. Brad Wilcox's talk at our "It Takes a Family to Raise a Village" conference this year.  If you missed his talk, check out the previous podcast.

Direct download: Sep27b_11.mp3
Category:ITAF 2011 -- posted at: 10:00 AM

(July 29, 2011) Dr. Brad Wilcox delivers a talk at our "It Takes a Family to Raise a Village" conference this year.  His talk is called "Pathways to Marriage," and it's focsed more on courtship than marriage.  He's a professor at the University of Virginia and director of its National Marriage Project.

Direct download: Sep27a_11.mp3
Category:ITAF 2011 -- posted at: 9:00 AM

(July 29, 2011) This is the question-and-answer period from Bill Duncan's "Marriage and the Law" talk at our "It Takes a Family to Raise a Village" conference this year.  Student questions here are not mic'd, so Bill or I will repeat them as needed.  If you missed his talk, just pull down the previous podcast.

Direct download: Sep26b_11.mp3
Category:ITAF 2011 -- posted at: 6:13 PM

(July 29, 2011) Attorney Bill Duncan delivers a talk at our "It Takes a Family to Raise a Village" conference this year.  He's speaking on "Marriage and the Law."

Direct download: Sep26a_11.mp3
Category:ITAF 2011 -- posted at: 4:07 PM

(September 16, 2011) Dr J appears on the Drew Mariani show to discuss Pat Robertson's recent pronouncement that contracting Alzheimer's is grounds for divorce--because it's "a kind of death."

Direct download: Sep23_11.mp3
Category:divorce -- posted at: 6:15 PM

(August 23, 2011) Dr Robert Gagnon and Todd Wilken meet on Issues, Etc to discuss what the Bible has to say about homosexual marriage.  Dr Gagnon is a professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and author of The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics.  He spoke at Ruth Institute's 2010 and 2011 "It Takes a Family to Raise a Village" conferences.

Direct download: Sep22_11.mp3
Category:same-sex unions -- posted at: 6:54 PM

(September 18, 2011) Dr J travels to the California Republican Convention and interviews the Honorable Mike Spence after the committee vote on the state's party platform position.

Direct download: Sep20_11.mp3
Category:Marriage -- posted at: 9:00 AM

(July 12, 2011) Dr J and Todd Wilken meet on Issues, Etc to discuss the Illinois state government's refusal to continue its work with Catholic Charities to place children in foster care--over its (Catholic Charities') refusal to place children for foster care or adoption in same-sex couple households.

Direct download: Sep19_11.mp3
Category:homosexual parenting -- posted at: 7:52 PM

(August 3, 2011) Dr J and Todd Wilken meet on Issues, Etc to discuss the government mandate that insurance companies provide free contraception coverage to their customers.

Direct download: Sep21_11.mp3
Category:contraception -- posted at: 9:00 AM