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Family Policy Matters is a weekly podcast and radio show produced by the North Carolina Family Policy Council. Each week, our host, Traci DeVette Griggs, welcomes leaders from across the state and nation to discuss topics related to faith, family, and life in North Carolina.
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John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, inspired a generation that transformed America. But not everyone knows the stories behind the man - his experiences as a young serviceman in World War II, how he wrote some of his most memorable speeches, what sparked him to set the country on a path to the moon. Join Matt Porter and Jamie Richardson of the JFK Library Foundation as they dig into the archives at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston and intervi ...
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From the 1960 campaign to today, black and latino voices have played important roles in presidential campaigns. In this episode, we speak with Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb and Lincoln Project Co-Founder Mike Madrid about how presidential campaigns have made special efforts to earn the vote of the nation’s Black and Latino communities…
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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes David Closson, Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview at Family Research Council, to discuss why Christians have a duty to be informed voters and some practical things they can do to start engaging.Kirjoittanut Traci DeVette Griggs and David Closson
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In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson told the nation he would not seek re-election as President. This year, President Joe Biden stepped down in the middle of the 2024 presidential campaign. In this episode, we speak with LBJ Foundation President and CEO Mark Updegrove along with presidential historian Alexis Coe about presidents who chose to “pass …
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In John F. Kennedy’s Presidential Campaign, there were many concerns over the high costs of running for president. Still, the money required to run in 1960 is dwarfed by the expenses of today’s presidential and congressional campaigns. Former Senator Russell Feingold, a chief architect of bipartisan campaign finance reform, discusses how our electi…
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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Bunni Pounds, President and Founder of Christians Engaged, to discuss why Christians should be involved in politics and three ways for Christians to start engaging in politics.Kirjoittanut Traci DeVette Griggs and Bunni Pounds
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For the first time in more than 40 years, a president was fired on and injured by an assassin’s bullet. In this episode, we speak with presidential historian Alexis Coe about the history of violence against presidential candidates and author and writer Tom Nichols about how the country’s intensely partisan politics have spurred violent acts across …
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This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Jason Thacker, senior fellow in bioethics and director of the research institute at The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, to discuss the need to reframe the conversation around life and abortion to get back to what really matters.…
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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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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.Kirjoittanut Traci DeVette Griggs and Stephanie Gray Connors
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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.Kirjoittanut Traci DeVette Griggs and J.P. De Gance
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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.Kirjoittanut Traci DeVette Griggs and Brad Littlejohn
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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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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.Kirjoittanut Traci DeVette Griggs and Dr. Bill Donohue
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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.Kirjoittanut Traci DeVette Griggs and Patrick T. Brown
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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.Kirjoittanut Traci DeVette Griggs and Dr. Leonard Sax
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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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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.Kirjoittanut Traci DeVette Griggs and Gov Scott Walker
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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.Kirjoittanut Traci DeVette Griggs and Michael Graham
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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.Kirjoittanut Traci DeVette Griggs and Angela Sullivan
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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 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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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.Kirjoittanut Traci DeVette Griggs and Carter Satterfield
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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.Kirjoittanut Traci DeVette Griggs and Kylee Alons
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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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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.Kirjoittanut Traci DeVette Griggs and Mike Long
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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.Kirjoittanut JFK Library Foundation
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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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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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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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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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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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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.Kirjoittanut Traci DeVette Griggs and Timothy Carney
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