Best John Rustin Podcasts (2024)

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Why We Need Phone-Free Schools (with Clare Morell) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Clare Morell, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and director of their Technology and Human Flourishing Project, to discuss how phone-free schools work and their potential to improve the health and education of students.…

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A Restorative Approach to Infertility (with Stephanie Gray Connors) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Stephanie Gray Connors, author of the book Conceived by Science: Thinking Carefully and Compassionately about Infertility and IVF, to discuss alternatives to IVF for couples experiencing infertility.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Stephanie Gray Connors

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Helping Churches Help Families in NC (with J.P. De Gance) 15:00

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes J.P. De Gance, founder and president of Communio, to discuss a new initiative he's working on in Charlotte, North Carolina to help churches help strengthen marriages and families.By Traci DeVette Griggs and J.P. De Gance

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How to Elect Leaders Who Govern (with Brad Littlejohn) 15:00

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Brad Littlejohn, a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, to discuss why it is important to consider a wide variety of factors when voting for elected officials.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Brad Littlejohn

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NC Physicians Take Stand to Protect Children (with Dianna Lightfoot & Emily Saunders) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Dianna Lightfoot and Emily Saunders from NC Physicians for Freedom to talk about the "Doctors Protecting Children Declaration" that they recently signed and their work to prevent children from being harmed by transgender "care."

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Put Your Faith Into Action (with Dr. Bill Donohue) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Dr. Bill Donohue, president of Catholic League and author of Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis, to discuss why it is so important for Christians to be engaged in the culture around them.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Dr. Bill Donohue

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America's Aging Population and the Pro-Life Movement (with Patrick T. Brown) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Patrick T. Brown, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, to discuss America's aging population and the impacts that could have on the pro-life movement and public policy.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Patrick T. Brown

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How to Protect Your Children from the Dangers of Social Media (with Dr. Leonard Sax) 15:00

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Dr. Leonard Sax, a practicing physician and a New York Times bestselling author, to discuss how social media is impacting kids and how parents can mitigate its effects.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Dr. Leonard Sax

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The Legal Fight to Protect Title IX (with Matt Sharp) 15:00

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Matt Sharp, Senior Counsel and Director of the Center for Public Policy at Alliance Defending Freedom, to discuss the legal battle that is underway to protect women's and parental rights from the Biden Administration's changes to Title IX.…

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How to Fix Our Falling Fertility Rate (with Lyman Stone) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Lyman Stone, Research Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, to discuss America's falling fertility rates what we can do to fix them.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Lyman Stone

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Celebrating Independence Across the Country (with Gov. Scott Walker) 15:00

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Governor Scott Walker, President of Young America's Foundation, to discuss the importance of teaching America's foundational values and the significance of our independence.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Gov Scott Walker

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Why People are Leaving the Church (With Michael Graham) 15:00

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Michael Graham, Program Director for The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, to discuss what is known as the "great dechurching" and how Christians should respond.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Michael Graham

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NC Mom Pursues Medical Career After Unplanned Pregnancy (With Angela Sullivan) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Angela Sullivan, a North Carolina mom of four, to discuss how she has been able to pursue higher education and a medical career after an unplanned pregnancy at the age of eighteen.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Angela Sullivan

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The Sad Truth About Marijuana (With Luke Niforatos) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Luke Niforatos, the Executive Vice President of Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), to disucss attempts to legalize marijuana and the dangerous impacts that could have.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Luke Niforatos

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Why Christians Must Protect Children: Part 2 (With Katy Faust) 15:00

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This week on Family Policy Matters, hear Part 2 of Katy Faust's keynote address at NC Family's 2024 Raleigh Dinner. Katy Faust is the founder and president of Them Before Us, and speaks on the critical responsibility that Christians have to protect children.By Katy Faust

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Why Christians Must Protect Children: Part 1 (With Katy Faust) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, hear Part 1 of Katy Faust's keynote address at NC Family's 2024 Raleigh Dinner. Katy Faust is the founder and president of Them Before Us, and speaks on the critical responsibility that Christians have to protect children.By Katy Faust

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How to Live in an Anti-Christian Culture (With Aaron Renn) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Aaron Renn, Senior Fellow at American Reformer and the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, to discuss how society's view of Christianity has declined in the United States and how people of faith can live in the new anti-Christian culture.…

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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy - A Political Matriarch 58:35

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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy was the mother of a 20th century political dynasty. In this episode, we’ll explore her history through the museum she helped create at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site and speak with historian Barbara Perry, author of Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch.…

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"Not an equal protection." Swimmer Speaks Out About NCAA's Transgender Policy (With Carter Satterfield) 15:00

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Carter Satterfield, a swimmer at Roanoke College, to discuss her experience swimming with a transgender-identifying male and how that prompted her to join the lawsuit against the NCAA.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Carter Satterfield

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NC State Swimmer Joins Lawsuit Against the NCAA (With Kylee Alons) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Kylee Alons, a former swimmer at NC State University, to discuss Kylee’s experience swimming against Lia Thomas and why that prompted her to join the lawsuit against the NCAA.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Kylee Alons

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From Moonshot to Earthshot 18:35

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This Earth Day, the JFK Library Foundation announced the Earthshot Innovation Challenge: Northeast U.S. Edition. The challenge is a $100,000 prize to ignite regional innovations to address climate change. Foundation Executive Director Rachel Flor discusses the award and when winner’s will be announced.…

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Stories, Literature, and Sharing the Gospel (With Dr. Holly Ordway) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Dr. Holly Ordway to discuss the growing indifference to religion and how stories and literature can be used to share the Gospel. Dr. Ordway is the visiting Professor of Apologetics at Houston Christian University, the Professor of Faith and Culture at the Word On Fire Institute,…

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NC's Opportunity Scholarship Gives Parents Educational Options (With Mike Long) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes back Mike Long, President of Parents for Educational Freedom North Carolina, to discuss North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship and the impact that it has.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Mike Long

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A Conversation with U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan 32:41

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In 1934, the National Archives and Records Administration was created to oversee the protection and dissemination of governmental and historic records of the United States. In this episode, we speak with the Dr. Colleen Shogan, the 11th Archivist of the United States.By JFK Library Foundation

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A NC Detransitioner Sues Her Doctors (With Josh Payne) 15:00

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Josh Payne, attorney and co-founder of Campbell Miller Payne, PLLC, to discuss Prisha Mosley's legal case. Prisha is a North Carolina citizen who was pushed to pursue so-called gender-affirming care as a teenager, including cross-sex hormones and surgery. She has now detransitio…

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Hemingway's Letters 47:32

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The Hemingway Letters Project seeks to publish a comprehensive edition of the writer Ernest Hemingway’s letters. In this episode, we talk with two of the project's editors, Verna Kale and Sandra Spanier, in advance of the publication of volume 6 of the series. We talk about the detective work they’ve done and how Hemingway’s letters give a deeper u…

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The Danger And Detachment Of Surrogacy (With Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse) (Re-Air) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, we are re-airing a show from June, 2020 where host Traci DeVette Griggs sits down again with Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse of The Ruth Institute to discuss the issue of surrogacy. Dr. Morse shares how surrogacy ignores the rights of the child, and often leads down a dangerous path to the commodification of both child…

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Perinatal Hospice: Loving Babies Born With Life-Limiting Conditions (With Mary Szoch) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Mary Szoch, Director of the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council, to discuss a new report that explored perinatal hospice as an alternative for babies with a prenatal diagnosis of a life-limiting medical condition.…

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How to Create a Media-Savvy Family (With Adam Holz) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Adam Holz, Director at Plugged In and co-author of Becoming a Screen-Savvy Family: How to Navigate a Media-Saturated World--And Why We Should, to discuss how parents can create healthy media habits for themselves and their children.…

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Being the President 43:03

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What did President Kennedy think of the presidency himself? And what makes a president? In this episode, we hear from JFK himself and talk to historian Alexis Coe about her project at New America on the presidency, as well as her work as an historian.By JFK Library Foundation

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How to Combat a Family-Unfriendly Culture (With Timothy Carney) 15:00

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Timothy Carney, author of Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be, to discuss how America has created an increasingly family-unfriendly culture and what parents can do to combat it.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Timothy Carney

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A Biblical View of Immigration (with Joshua Arnold) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Joshua Arnold, Senior Writer at The Washington Stand, to discuss four biblical principles to inform a Christian approach to immigration.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Joshua Arnold

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Is Masculinity Really Toxic? (with Nancy Pearcey) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Nancy Pearcey, a professor and author of the book The Toxic War on Masculinity, to discuss the many cultural challenges that men are facing today. The Toxic War on Masculinity: https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-War-Masculinity-Christianity-Reconciles/dp/0801075734…

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Bayard Rustin: The Man Behind the March 1:06:42

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On August 28, 1963, 250,000 people of different races, religions, and economic backgrounds convened on the nation’s capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The man behind organizing the event – Bayard Rustin – is profiled in a new Oscar-nominated film “Rustin.” In this episode, we speak with producers of the film, Tonia Davis and …

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How to Teach Your Children a Biblical Worldview (With Dr. George Barna) 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Dr. George Barna, author of Raising Spiritual Champions, to discuss why it is critical for parents to instill a biblical worldview in their children and some tips for how they can do so.By Traci DeVette Griggs, John Rustin, and George Barna

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Sharing the Stories of Those Hurt by the Transgender Movement With Kallie Fell 15:00

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Kallie Fell, Executive Director of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network (CBC Network), to discuss the CBC Network's new documentary and book and how they share the stories of those most hurt by the transgender movement.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Kallie Fell

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Can Getting Married Save Civilization? 15:00

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Brad Wilcox to discuss the importance of marriage and his new book, Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Brad Wilcox

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How North Carolina Compares to Other States on Issues of Life and Death 15:00

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Danielle Pimentel, Policy Counsel at Americans United for Life (AUL), to discuss AUL's Annual Life List and how North Carolina ranks compared to other states.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Danielle Pimentel

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Why Christians Should Engage in Politics 15:00

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Christy Stutzman, author of The Spiritual Price of Political Silence, to discuss why and how Christians should engage in politics.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Christy Stutzman

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A Rural Church Meets Educational Needs 15:01

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Reverend Mark Perko and MiRandi Chewning to discuss Deep Creek Christian Academy, the school that they run through their church in rural North Carolina.By Traci DeVette Griggs, Reverend Mark Perko, and MiRandi Chewning

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The Critical Connection: Faith, Race, and Political Engagement 15:00

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes John Amanchukwu, a pastor at the Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, North Carolina, to discuss his book Eraced: Uncovering the Lies of Critical Race Theory and Abortion.By Traci DeVette Griggs and John Amanchukwu

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A Pregnancy Resource Center Opens a Coffee Shop in NC 15:00

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Tonya Baker Nelson, Founder and CEO of Hand of Hope Pregnancy Centers, to discuss the new coffee shop she is opening this spring. You can learn more about Hand of Hope Pregnancy Centers here.By Traci DeVette Griggs and Tonya Baker Nelson

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Protecting Our Teens (Even When They Push Us Away) (Re-Air) 15:00

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This week on Family Policy Matters, we are re-airing a show from January 2023, where host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Erica Komisar to discuss ways that we can help adolescents navigate the mental health crisis that is wreaking havoc on our country. Erica is a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst, and parent guidance expert.…

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Get to Know Our Staff, From Top Gun to Upcoming Weddings 15:00

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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes the staff at NC Family to discuss everything from the best book they read this year to what they're looking forward to in 2024.By Traci DeVette Griggs and the NC Family Staff

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