The Ruth Institute Podcast

(April 21, 2013) Dr J is part of the "Minnesota for Marriage" bus tour. Here's her talk at the tour's stop in Austin, "Shocking News." Stay tuned--more material from the tour is coming up.

(April 21, 2013) Dr J is part of the "Minnesota for Marriage" bus tour. Here's her talk at the tour's stop in Eden Prairie, "Equality?" Stay tuned--more material from the tour is coming up.

(April 21, 2013) Dr J is part of the "Minnesota for Marriage" bus tour. Here's her talk at the tour's stop in Owatonna, "The March of History." Stay tuned--more material from the tour is coming up.

(April 20, 2013) Dr J is part of the "Minnesota for Marriage" bus tour. Here's her talk at the tour's stop in Montevideo, "The Essential Public Purpose of Marriage." Stay tuned--more material from the tour is coming up.

(April 12, 2013) Dr J travels to Grove City, Pennsylvania, to speak at Grove City College's Vision & Values Conference on The Government's Duty to Marriage. This is the Q&A session after the talk--if you missed it, be sure to check out the previous podcast.

(April 12, 2013) Dr J travels to Grove City, Pennsylvania, to speak at Grove City College's Vision & Values Conference on The Government's Duty to Marriage. She also takes questions after the talk--check out the next podcast for those.

(April 9, 2013) Dr J and Todd Wilken meet on Issues, Etc. to discuss Bill O'Reilly's recent contention that no good arguments have been advanced in favor of marriage.

(March 26, 2013) Dr J was at the first annual March for Marriage in Washington, D.C., where she gave this inspirational talk.

(March 20, 2013) This is the question-and-answer session following Dr J's informal address to the student body and faculty at Patrick Henry College in Virginia. If you missed her talk, check out the previous podcast.

(March 20, 2013) Dr J gives an informal address to the student body and faculty at Patrick Henry College in Virginia. She takes questions afterward, too--check out the next podcast for that.

(March 6, 2013) Dr J is a guest on Relevant Radio's Life Talk, hosted by Margie Manczko Breen, Peter Breen, and Ray Pingoy. They discussed the marriage movement, messaging to young people, and what's going on in the state of Illinois. The Ruth Institute is gearing up for its annual conference, It Takes a Family to Raise a Village, in San Diego. This year's conference runs from May 30 to June 3. Application deadline is March 15. To find out more and to apply, visit www.ruthinstitute.org/ITAF13.

(February 16, 2013) Dr J speaks at a Catholic Women's Conference on marriage, family, faith, and society--and these ladies are fired up about what she has to say! Check it out. The conference was sponsored by the Catholic diocese of Venice, Florida.

(February 17, 2013) Dr J's in Iowa at the moment. This is the Q&A session after her talk to a group of Catholic students from Iowa State. If you missed the talk, check out the previous podcast. The Ruth Institute is gearing up for its annual conference, It Takes a Family to Raise a Village, in San Diego. This year's conference runs from May 30 to June 3. Application deadline is March 15. To find out more and to apply, visit www.ruthinstitute.org/ITAF13.

(February 17, 2013) Dr J's in Iowa at the moment; this is her talk to a group of Catholic students from Iowa State. They discussed marriage, family, careers, and children, among other things. Dr J also took questions afterward--check out the next podcast for that part of the session. The Ruth Institute is gearing up for its annual conference, It Takes a Family to Raise a Village, in San Diego. This year's conference runs from May 30 to June 3. Application deadline is March 15. To find out more and to apply, visit www.ruthinstitute.org/ITAF13.

(February 14, 2013) Dr J is Jan Mickelson's guest on WHO Radio's "Mickelson in the Morning," where they discussed her upcoming visit to Iowa and our upcoming student conference, It Takes a Family to Raise a Village. The Ruth Institute is gearing up for its annual conference, It Takes a Family to Raise a Village, in San Diego. This year's conference runs from May 30 to June 3. Application deadline is March 15. To find out more and to apply, visit www.ruthinstitute.org/ITAF13.

(February 8, 2013) Dr J appears on Michael Brown's Line of Fire radio show, where they discussed marriage, family, adoption, and cultural attitudes that can either build up or tear down the institution of marriage. Dr. Brown is director of the Coalition of Conscience and president of Fire School of Ministry.

(February 6, 2013) Dr J appears on Relevant Radio's A Closer Look, where she and Sheila Liaugminas discussed marriage, law, and natural law. They also touched on culture, family, and public policy. The Ruth Institute is gearing up for its annual conference, It Takes a Family to Raise a Village, in San Diego. This year's conference runs from May 30 to June 3. Application deadline is March 15. To find out more and to apply, visit www.ruthinstitute.org/ITAF13.

(January 29, 2013) Dr J appears on Issues, Etc, where she and Todd Wilken discuss the pressure on the Boy Scouts to lift their restrictions on homosexual leaders and participants.

(December 2012) As part of our Circle of Experts interview series, Dr. J hosts Dr. Dale Kuehne, author of Sex and the iWorld and professor at St. Anselm College, to discuss cultural views on sexuality and human fulfillment.

(January 24, 2013) Dr J is invited to McGeorge Law School in Sacramento to speak at the Federalist Society sponsored event "Clashing Visions of Freedom: The State v. the Family in the Social Issues."

(January 10, 2013) Samantha Schroeder is a guest on The Drew Mariani Show, where she and Drew discussed feminism in the context of her recent article, "Was Rush Limbaugh Right When He Said Feminism 'Ruined Women'? Partially." Samantha is program assistant at the Alexander Hamilton Society and blogs at the Ruth Institute.

(January 15, 2013) Kellie Fiedorek, attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom, shares some prepared remarks before the Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee as they consider how to vote on a bill that would redefine marriage. Remarks by Dr. J and Father Bernard Healey are also available in our podcast stream.

(January 15, 2013) Father Bernard A. Healey shares some prepared remarks before the Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee as they consider how to vote on a bill that would redefine marriage. Remarks by Dr. J and Kellie Fiedorek are also available in our podcast stream.

(January 15, 2013) Dr J is invited to share some prepared remarks before the Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee as they consider how to vote on a bill that would redefine marriage. Father Bernard Healey and Kellie Fiedorek also spoke; their remarks are coming up next in the podcast stream.

(January 9, 2013) Dr J and Kristin Rudolph, writer for the Institute on Religion and Democracy, are Sheila Liaugminas' guests on Relevant Radio's "A Closer Look."

(January 9, 2012) We're kicking off a new podcasting project: a series of interviews with Ruth Institute's Circle of Experts. They're scholars and community leaders who are active in the marriage and life movements, and we'll be introducing one of our experts each week. If you're impatient, the complete list is on our website--check out "Circle of Experts" in the nav bar on the left side of the page. Today Dr. J is speaking with Lynn Wardle on DOMA, the Federal Defense of Marriage Act. Lynn Wardle is a professor at BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School; his body of work is primarly concerned with family law and related subjects.

(December 7, 2012) Dr J was invited to present a paper as part of three symposia on "Demography and Public Policy" at the Howard Center in Washington, DC. This is the question-and-answer session afterward with the other presenter, Dr. Allan Carlson, and the two respondents, Dr. Charles Murray and David Brooks. If you missed her presentation; check out the previous podcast.

(December 7, 2012) Dr J was invited to present a paper as part of three symposia on "Demography and Public Policy" at the Howard Center in Washington, DC. She and Dr. Allan Carlson presented; respondents were Dr. Charles Murray and David Brooks. This is her presentation; check back for the question-and-answer session afterward, too.

(November 14, 2012) While Dr J was in North Carolina, she spoke on natural marriage to two classes at Cardinal Gibbons Catholic high school. (This is the second talk--check out our previous podcast for the first one.) She took questions afterward, too.

(November 14, 2012) While Dr J was in North Carolina, she spoke on natural marriage to two classes at Cardinal Gibbons Catholic high school. (This is the first talk--check out our next podcast for the second one.) She took questions afterward, too.

(December 12, 2012) We're kicking off a new podcasting project: a series of interviews with Ruth Institute's Circle of Experts. They're scholars and community leaders who are active in the marriage and life movements, and we'll be introducing one of our experts each week. If you're impatient, the complete list is on our website--check out "Circle of Experts" in the nav bar on the left side of the page. Today Dr. J is speaking with Bill Duncan, president of the Marriage Law Foundation. They're talking about the Supreme Court's very recent decision to take up the question of same-sex unions.

(December 11, 2012) Dr J travels to Oakland to speak to a group of Catholic businessmen and women about marriage and society. She took questions afterward, too.

(November 20, 2012) We're kicking off a new podcasting project: a series of interviews with Ruth Institute's Circle of Experts. They're scholars and community leaders who are active in the marriage and life movements, and we'll be introducing one of our experts each week. If you're impatient, the complete list is on our website--check out "Circle of Experts" in the nav bar on the left side of the page. Today Dr. J is speaking with Dr Doug Allen, professor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. They're talking about his research on same-sex parenting studies with special emphasis on Mark Regnerus' recent work.

(November 20, 2012) We're kicking off a new podcasting project: a series of interviews with Ruth Institute's Circle of Experts. They're scholars and community leaders who are active in the marriage and life movements, and we'll be introducing one of our experts each week. If you're impatient, the complete list is on our website--check out "Circle of Experts" in the nav bar on the left side of the page. Today Dr. J is speaking with Dr Jenet Jacob Erickson, professor at the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. They're talking about parenting--how moms and dads nurture children differently.

(November 13, 2012) Dr J traveled to North Carolina last week to speak at UNC Chapel Hill's Love and Fidelity chapter. This is the question-and-answer session afterward--if you missed her talk, check out the previous podcast.

(November 13, 2012) Dr J traveled to North Carolina last week to speak at UNC Chapel Hill's Love and Fidelity chapter. She takes questions afterward, too--check out the next podcast.

(November 7, 2012) We're kicking off a new podcasting project: a series of interviews with Ruth Institute's Circle of Experts. They're scholars and community leaders who are active in the marriage and life movements, and we'll be introducing one of our experts each week. If you're impatient, the complete list is on our website--check out "Circle of Experts" in the nav bar on the left side of the page. Today Dr. J is speaking with Tom Peters, cultural director at the National Organization for Marriage and blogger American Papist at CatholicVote.org, about yesterday's election and what's going on in the marriage movement.

(October 20, 2012) Dr. J speaks on the healthcare mandate, Catholicism, and Religious Freedom at the Rally for Religious Freedom in San Diego.

(October 18, 2012) Dr. J speaks at St. Gertrude's Catholic Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, on marriage and the family.

(October 10, 2012) Dr. J and Austin Muck, are guests of Sheila Liaugminas on Relevant Radio's "A Closer Look." They're discussing the essential public purpose of marriage--why government is involved in the institution at all. Austin interned at the Ruth Institute as part of the Alliance Defending Freedom's Blackstone Legal Fellowship.

(October 6, 2012) Dr. J speaks on marriage, economics, and social issues at a workshop on civic responsibility to Opus Dei, a Catholic women's organization, from Pasadena, California.

(September 7, 2012) This is Anne Morse, president of Berkeley Students for Life, a Wilberforce fellow, and a senior at UC Berkeley, giving her talk at 40 Days for Life.

(September 19, 2012) Dr J and Scotty Biggs (a student at Eastern Kentucky University) are Sheila Liaugminas's guests on Relevant Radio's "A Closer Look." They discussed the youth involvement in the marriage movement, Mark Regnerus's recent study of the effects of same-sex parenting on children, and various biases and obstacles the marriage movement faces.

(September 14, 2012) Dr J speaks on the importance and meaning of marriage at the Salt and Light Council's "Traditional Marriage Forum" at Calvary Chapel in Temecula, California.

(June 29, 2012) Dr J speaks from the Couples for Christ Convention in Atlanta. This is the last of the three talks she gave there--she spoke on forgiveness and family. Check out our podcast stream for her previous talks on marriage and contraception.

(June 29, 2012) Dr J speaks on the Pyramid of Involvement (or the KISS pyramid) as part of her talk on contraception from the Couples for Christ Convention in Atlanta. Check out our podcast stream for the presentation on contraception as well as her other two talks, on marriage and family forgiveness.

(June 29, 2012) Dr J speaks from the Couples for Christ Convention in Atlanta. This is the second of her three talks there--she spoke on contraception. Check out the companion talk on the KISS pyramid, too--it's up next.

(June 29, 2012) Dr J speaks from the Couples for Christ Convention in Atlanta, Georgia. This is the first of her three talks there--she spoke on marriage, same-sex unions, and family. Check out her other talks on contraception and forgiveness, too.

(July 28, 2012) Paul Diamond, a barrister in the United Kingdom who has established a specialized practice in the law of religious liberty, spoke at our annual student conference "It Takes a Family to Raise a Village." His second talk is entitled "Criminalizing Christianity in the U.K." "It Takes a Family to Raise a Village" is a scholarship-based three-day event in San Diego where students and people of all ages gather for seminars and inspiration on the meaning and value of marriage. It's held every year at the end of July--for information on past and future conferences, check out www.ruthinstitute.org.

(August 8, 2012) Dr J speaks at a conference of pro-life coordinators from Catholic dioceses across the United States. Held in Santa Ana, the conference was sponsored by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops' Pro-Life Committee.