NC Family's Family Policy Matters

This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Dr. Kathy Koch, Founder and President of Celebrate Kids, Inc. They discuss the impact technology is having on family relationships, particularly among young people, and what parents can do to help ensure that their children develop an appropriate relationship with technology. This show originally aired in January of...

This week on Family Policy Matters , NC Family is excited to re-air an episode from February of 2016. In it, NC Family president John Rustin talks with pro-life advocate and speaker, Gianna Jessen, who was miraculously born alive after her biological mother underwent a failed saline abortion in the 1970s. Jessen tells her amazing story and how God has used her life to promote the sanctity of human...

This week on Family Policy Matters , NC Family Communications Director Traci DeVette Griggs sits down with Dr. Adam Carrington, assistant professor of politics at Hillsdale College's Graduate School of Statesmanship. Dr. Carrington unpacks the recent trend of states passing legislation to do away with the Electoral College, and the repercussions of state lawmakers, as well as presidential candidat...

This week on Family Policy Matters , NC President John Rustin talks with Abby Johnson, the former Planned Parenthood Clinic Director whose story of transformation and redemption is featured on screen in the film Unplanned , now in theaters. Johnson discusses her inspiring story, her ministry And Then There Were None for abortion clinic employees seeking a way out, and how Unplanned came to be.

This week on  Family Policy Matters , NC Family Communications Director Traci DeVette Griggs sits down with Alexandra McPhee, attorney and Director of Religious Freedom Advocacy for Family Research Council. McPhee discusses her recent publication, "Rebels Without a Clause: When Senators Run Roughshod Over the 'No Religious Test' Clause of the U.S. Constitution," which addresses the recent trend of...

This week on Family Policy Matters , NC Family brings you Part 2 of a speech delivered by John Stonestreet at our Major Speakers Dinner in Greenville. John Stonestreet, president of The Colson Center for Christian Worldview, discusses how Christians are saved for the ministry of reconciliation, and poses four questions for how the Church can live out our mission as reconcilers.

This week on Family Policy Matters , NC Family is pleased to bring you Part 1 of a speech delivered by John Stonestreet at our Major Speakers Dinner in Greenville. John Stonestreet, president of The Colson Center for Christian Worldview, discusses how culture influences everything, including the Church, and what we as Christians are saved for.

This week on Family Policy Matters , NC Family Communications Director Traci DeVette Griggs talks to Crystalina Evert, founder of Women Made New Ministries and co-founder of Chastity Project. Pulling from her own personal experience, Evert speaks on the trauma of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, and how abuses in a woman's past affects her present views, relationships, and feelings. Evert al...

This week on Family Policy Matters , NC Family President John Rustin sits down with Barrett Johnson, co-founder of I.N.F.O. For Families, which stands for Imperfect and Normal Families Only. Johnson addresses the trend we have seen in recent years of public figures having their pasts come back to haunt them, and how parents can protect, teach, and prepare their children to make wise choices in an...

This week on the Focus On Faith edition of Family Policy Matters , NC Family's Pastor Outreach Director Thomas Graham speaks with Miriam Cobb, founder and director of The Empty Frames Initiative. Cobb discusses how Empty Frames empowers young people who are aging out of foster care by using photography to tell their stories, and how relationships and community are essential to the ability to live...

This week on Family Policy Matters , NC Family President John Rustin talks to Steven Aden, chief legal officer and general counsel for Americans United for Life (AUL), one of the country's preeminent pro-life legal organizations. Aden focuses on recent anti-life legislation as well as AUL's annual Life List, a ranking of every state in regards to the status of their pro-life laws. Aden discusses N...

This week on Family Policy Matters , NC Family President John Rustin speaks with Dr. Russell Moore, President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southeastern Baptist Convention, and the author of Christianity Today 's 2019 Book of the Year, The Storm-Tossed Family: How the Cross Reshapes the Home . Dr. Moore offers a practical, realistic perspective for nurturing and maintaining...

This week on Family Policy Matters , NC Family is pleased to bring you a special look into one of our Cornerstone Community calls. Our most recent call featured special guest Paul "Skip" Stam, former Speaker Pro Tempore of the North Carolina House of Representatives. Along with NC Family President John Rustin, Stam shares his insight on the recently convened 2019-2020 session of the NC General Ass...

This week on Family Policy Matters , NC Family President John Rustin sits down with April Readlinger, Executive Director of CanaVox. Readlinger discusses CanaVox's international work in strengthening marriages through the use of reading groups, and how open and honest conversations about marriage with like-minded individuals can reestablish the idea of community.

This week on Family Policy Matters , NC Family President John Rustin talks with Dr. Frank Moncher, a clinical psychologist and consultant for the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia and Catholic Charities USA. Dr. Moncher speaks to the struggles many adults experience in caring for their aging and infirmed parents, and addresses the growing trend of assisted suicide. Furthermore, Dr. Moncher offers ins...

This week on Family Policy Matters , NC Family President John Rustin speaks with Greg Baylor, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom and the Director of ADF's Center for Religious Schools. Baylor unpacks how religious and moral objections to the Obamacare contraceptive mandate have played out judicially under the aid of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act , and if the Trump administration...

This week on Family Policy Matters , NC Family President John Rustin speaks with Dr. Timothy Jennings, a board-certified psychiatrist, author, Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatrist Association, and President of Come and Reason Ministries. Dr. Jennings explains how our physical bodies are very much connected to our spiritual souls, and how engaging and experiencing God, truth, and love...

This week on the Focus On Faith edition of Family Policy Matters , NC Family's Pastor Outreach Director Thomas Graham sits down with Joe Carter, an editor for The Gospel Coalition and of the NIV Lifehacks Bible . Carter discusses why many Christians do not attend church, the importance of attendance, and how pastors and parishioners can better welcome visitors, particularly Millennials, into their...

This weekon Family Policy Matters , NC Family is happy to share part two of a two-part speech from our Winston-Salem Major Speakers Dinner. In this second portion, Dr. Bruce Ashford, a provost and professor of theology and culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, discusses the social ostracism Christians can experience and how to stand firm in our faith in a secular world.

This week on Family Policy Matters , NC Family is happy to share part one of a two-part speech from our Winston-Salem Major Speakers Dinner. In part one, Dr. Bruce Ashford, a provost and professor of theology and culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, discusses the relationship between Church and state, and the value of life in both of these arenas.

This week on Family Policy Matters , NC Family President John L. Rustin interviews Mitch Kokai, a senior political analyst at the John Locke Foundation, one of North Carolina's preeminent conservative research organizations and public policy think tanks. Mitch talks about four new amendments to North Carolina's constitution.

NC Family President John L. Rustin interviews Cristina Barba, Founder and President of The Culture Project International, which seeks to restore culture through the experience of virtue. Christina, who has had a lifelong passion for proclaiming the dignity of human life, was awarded the 2016 Defender of Life Award by Students for Life of America, and she joins us today to discuss this exciting mis...

This week on Family Policy Matters , NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Erin Hawley, Law Professor at the University of Missouri and wife of newly elected U.S. Congressman Josh Hawley of Missouri. Erin discusses her new book, Living Beloved: Lessons from my little ones about the heart of God.

NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Wesley Smith, an author and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism. They discuss Canada's Supreme Court recent ruling on doctor-assisted suicide and why this is alarming to those of us in the United States.  

This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Daniel Darling, Vice President for Communications at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.  They discuss his new book, The Dignity Revolution: Reclaiming God's Rich Vision for Humanity .