Dr. Douglas Farrow is Professor of Theology and Ethics at McGill University in Montreal. Among his recent works are Ascension Theology, Desiring a Better Country, Theological Negotiations, and the Brazos Theological Commentary on 1 & 2 Thessalonians. One of his most popular works, against the rising tide of same-sex “marriage,” is Nation of Bastards.

(December 2, 2021) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith.  They're discussing science--and how it's being misused by a power-grabbing government.

Coming up next month the Ruth Institute will be participating and exhibiting at the March for Life Expo and the Students for Life Convention later in January. Stay tuned!

Charles LiMandri is an attorney for the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund. Since 1983, he has litigated over a dozen high-profile civil law and pro-bono religious liberty cases in state and federal courts as well as before the United States Supreme Court. These cases include defending the Mount Soledad Cross, David Daleiden, the Center for Medical Progress, Priests for Life, and baker Cathy Miller.

LiMandri is double Board Certified in Pre-Trial Litigation and Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and has owned and operated his private law firm for 27 years. He is also a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and is admitted to practice law in California, New York, Washington, D.C., and before the U.S. Supreme Court.

LiMandri founded the nonprofit Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund (FCDF) in September 2012 in response to the mounting escalation and intensity of religious freedom cases. He currently leads a team of attorneys who specialize in religious liberty, freedom of speech, and bioethics.

This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here, with readings and resources.

(April 15, 2021) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith.  They're discussing the difficulties that arise when church hierarchy refuse to follow Catholic doctrine.

(January 7, 2021) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. They're discussing the nature of truth, how humans gravitate toward double standards, the darkness of totalitarianism, and the reality of oligarchy.

(December 17, 2020) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. They're talking about the NBC hit piece on several pro-family groups over paycheck protection loans.

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Mat Staver is Founder of Liberty Counsel, which defends religious freedom in cases across the nation. He is also Chairman of the National Pro-life Center, Freedom Federation, Salt & Light Council, and the National House of Hope. He serves as Vice President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, and was Vice President of Liberty University, as well as a former Dean and law professor.

This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here with readings and resources.

John Horvat II is a scholar, researcher, educator, and international speaker. He is vice president and a member of the board of directors for the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP), head of the TFP Commission for American studies, and a TFP Sedes Sapientiae Institute instructor. Additionally, Mr. Horvat is a member of the Association of Christian Economists, The Philadelphia Society, the National Association of Scholars, and the Catholic Writers Guild, as well as an Acton University participant.

This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here (with readings & resources).

Today our own Communications Director Don Feder interviews Phillip Jauregui of the Judicial Action Group on Amy Coney Barrett filling the Supreme Court vacancy.

Phillip is an expert in constitutional law, judicial policy, and non-profit coalition building. He is admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and all of Alabama's State and local courts.

Phillip worked in the judicial branch as law clerk to Chief Justice Perry O. Hooper, Sr., of the Alabama Supreme Court and also served the executive branch as Assistant Legal Advisor to Alabama Governor Fob James. Phillip founded the Judicial Action Group in 2006.

This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here.

(October 1, 2020) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. They're discussing Justice Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, and what she is likely to face from the Left during her confirmation hearings.

Senior Editor of PJ Media, Tyler O'Neil is an author and conservative commentator. He has written for numerous publications, including Christian Post, National Review, the Washington Free Beacon, the Daily Signal, and the Colson Center's Breakpoint. He has appeared on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight. He is the author of Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. He enjoys Indian food, board games, and talking ceaselessly about politics, religion, and culture.

Readings & Resources

• Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center on Amazon
• related reading: Tyler reports on the SPLC
• • "The SPLC's Fall From Grace: How a Civil Rights Group Became a Threat to Free Speech"
  • "SPLC Demands Big Tech Silence Conservatives in the Name of Fighting White Supremacist Terror"
  • "SPLC Releases Fear-Mongering 'Hate Map' Amid Coronavirus Outbreak"
• Tyler's writings at PJ Media
• Ruth Institute's dust-up with SPLC: Where's the Hate?
• • PJ Media reports: "Another Scalp? Donation Processing Company Drops ‘Hate Group’ Christian Nonprofit Attacked by the Southern Poverty Law Center"
• Tyler's review of The Sexual State: "The Sexual State: How Government and Big Donors Gave Us the Sexual Revolution"

Action Items

• Follow Tyler O'Neil on Twitter: @Tyler2ONeil
• Tweet about the SPLC’s corruption using the hashtag #MakingHatePay
• Whenever you hear or read about the SPLC or its "Hate Map," write the editor, speak out, correct the record!
• Write to your congressmen, big tech, and corporate america, encouraging them to stop trusting the SPLC

Attorney Cathy Ruse has devoted her career to promoting the dignity of the human person --a career that spans the fields of communication, public policy, law, and language remediation.

This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here.

Currently, Mrs. Ruse serves as Family Research Council’s Senior Fellow for Legal Studies. She is also Legal Supervisor for Ave Maria School of Law/Culture of Life Foundation Washington Externship Program, and she is a Certified Dyslexia Therapist.

Mrs. Ruse previously served the United States' House of Representatives as Chief Counsel of the Constitution Subcommittee, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as pro-life spokesman. Prior to her policy and advocacy work, Mrs. Ruse practiced law in Washington D.C. She has testified as an expert in congressional hearings in both the House and the Senate, and she has filed "Friend of the Court" briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mrs. Ruse received her law degree from Georgetown University and her doctorate in Humane Letters from Franciscan University. She holds multiple professional certifications in the field of Academic Language/Dyslexia Therapy.

Mrs. Ruse and her husband Austin received the John Paul II Award for Advancing the Culture of Life and the Defender of Life Award from Students for Life of America. They are the proud parents of two wonderful daughters.

ACTION ITEMS

• Be very present to your children: As parents, we must be the primary educators of our children in all things, and especially in matters of sexuality. It is from parents and churches that children will hear the good news about God’s design for human sexuality.
• Teach your children: Sex is for intimate unity within marriage and this union creates children. Marriage is for the protection and benefit of children. Children will understand the true meaning and purpose of sex within marriage, and that marriage is for the protection and benefit of children. Parents must confidently and consistently share these important messages with their children, because their children are not likely to hear them in our culture or in our public schools.
• You must interfere: Immoral sex ed works best when parents don’t interfere. You must interfere.
• Help your child organize a club: Choose a focus that will have a positive impact on the school, like a Bible Study club, a Pure Fashion club, a Biology Club, or a Christian Athletes club.
• Invite a group to review sex ed materials: Invited trusted parents to review your school’s sex ed lessons. Read the actual lessons, watch the videos, and visit the recommended web sites. Do not rely on the summaries provided by the school and do not settle for being handed a packet of home resources to “reinforce” the lesson. Demand to see the actual lessons your children will see.

  Parents may opt their children out of this material whenever and wherever it may crop up—in lessons, school events, assemblies, classes, or any activities that violate their families’ beliefs.

• Every school year, file the “Universal Model Opt-Out letter” (template provided by Family Research Council):downloads.frc.org/EF/EF19J21.pdf

Resources

• Read Get Out Now! Why You Should Pull Your Child From Public Schools Before It's Too Late by Mary Rice Hasson and Theresa Farnan: amazon.com/Get-Out-Now-Should-Public
• Visit Parent and Child, a resource for analyzing school sex ed and family life curricula: parentandchild.org
• "The Plague of Morally Toxic Public Schools," recent column for Decision magazine that gives a shorter summary of the issue with a national focus: decisionmagazine.com/plague-of-morally-toxic-public-schools
• "What I Learned About the Transgender Politics Injected Into This Affluent County’s Schools," comprehensive column in Daily Signal on Cathy's local activism: dailysignal.com/2019/11/03/school-board-sex-politics-with-students-in-fairfax-county
• Dr. J’s interview with Stella Moribito on language and thought control

Ambassador Dr. Alan Keyes is an American conservative political activist, pundit, author, former ambassador to the United Nations and Adviser to President Ronald Reagan, two-time major presidential candidate, husband and father. His stated purpose in life, like that of the America’s Founders, is to provide a secure future for our children and our posterity.

Keyes is an unparalleled leader among moral conservatives. His Harvard University Doctorate in Government with its emphasis on our Constitution, his extensive experience in American government, along with his great faith in God’s part in the founding of that government enable him to provide a cogent defense of morality in America! Ambassador Keyes has unashamedly and consistently raised the standard of unalienable rights and Biblical truth in defense of preborn children. He confronts the culture of death with compelling and inspiring reasons why abortion must be banned from our land, and speaks in all parts of our country in an attempt to educate those unaware of the threat to the very existence of the United States. He boldly speaks to bolster the troops!

This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here.

This week we bring you part two of Katrina Zeno's explanation of John Paul II's "Theology of the Body."

Katrina J. Zeno, MTS, has served as the founding coordinator of the St. John Paul II Resource Center for Theology of the Body and Culture for the Diocese of Phoenix, AZ for 14 years, and has been speaking around the world on the Theology of the Body for over 23 years --not as simply another "subject" that is taught, but as the foundation of all that is taught and lived. Katrina is the author of three books including Discovering the Feminine Genius and The Body Reveals God, over 50 articles, and a blog entitled, “TOB Tuesdays.” She received her master in theological studies from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute in Washington, DC, and her BA in theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville. When not speaking, Katrina enjoys dancing salsa and Argentine tango, hiking, swimming, playing table tennis, and spending time with her married son Michael and her new granddaughter.

This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here.

This week we bring you an expert on Pope John Paul II's "Theology of the Body" in two parts! Katrina J. Zeno, MTS, has served as the founding coordinator of the St. John Paul II Resource Center for Theology of the Body and Culture for the Diocese of Phoenix, AZ for 14 years, and has been speaking around the world on the Theology of the Body for over 23 years --not as simply another "subject" that is taught, but as the foundation of all that is taught and lived. Katrina is the author of three books including Discovering the Feminine Genius and The Body Reveals God, over 50 articles, and a blog entitled, “TOB Tuesdays.” She received her master in theological studies from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute in Washington, DC, and her BA in theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville. When not speaking, Katrina enjoys dancing salsa and Argentine tango, hiking, swimming, playing table tennis, and spending time with her married son Michael and her new granddaughter.

This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here.

(February 15, 2020) Dr J gives a talk on the Ugandan martyrs. She was invited to St Henry Catholic church in Lake Charles to speak on the subject after returning from her trip to Uganda last December.

(September 10, 2019) Dr J is a guest of Father Robert McTeigue on The Station of the Cross's The Catholic Current. Today they're discussing how Christians can interact with the culture to change it for the better.

Briefly mentioned was our newest video podcasting project, "The Dr J Show;" check it out on our website and YouTube.

(March 26, 2018) Dr J is once again a guest of Drew Mariani on his eponymous show on Relevant Radio. They're discussing the Ruth Institute's "Go to Confession" campaign running in Lake Charles, Louisiana during Lent.

(March 8, 2018) Dr J is speaking with John Harper on Relevant Radio's "Morning Air" about the Ruth Institute's "Go to Confession" campaign running in Lake Charles, Louisiana during Lent.

(January 24, 2018) Dr J is once again a guest on Janet Mefferd's radio show to discuss the state of Alabama's recent moves to eliminate marriage licenses and "privatize" marriages. Their senate has passed a motion to handle marriages through affidavits between adults.

Check out "The Government's Duty to Marriage" over at our webstore on ruthinstitute.org.

(September 21, 2017) Dr J is once again Molly Smith's guest on From the Median. They're discussing the ongoing saga of the Ruth Institute being terminated by their online payment processing service because of their classification as a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

(September 20, 2017) Dr J is Cy Kellet's guest on Catholic Answers Focus. They're discussing the ongoing saga of the Ruth Institute's inclusion on the Southern Poverty Law Center's "hate map" for holding basic Judeo-Christian beliefs, for which we are supposedly "anti-LGBT."

(September 6, 2017) Dr J is Al Kresta's guest on his eponymous radio show from Ave Maria. They're discussing the ongoing saga of the Ruth Institute being terminated by their online payment processing service because of their classification as a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

(September 6, 2017) Dr J is once again Todd Wilkin's guest on Issues, Etc. They're discussing the ongoing saga of the Ruth Institute being terminated by their online payment processing service because of their inclusion on the Southern Poverty Law Center's "hate map."

At the beginning of the podcast, Todd mentioned Issues's annual Making the Case conference--here's the link for registration details.

(August 30, 2017) Dr J is Anna Mitchell's guest on Sacred Heart Radio's Son Rise Morning Show. They're discussing the Southern Poverty Law Center's "hate map," which lists several religious and family-oriented organizations (including us) as "hate groups."