NC Family's Family Policy Matters

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No Clause For Religious Tests Apr 01, 2019

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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 some U.S. Senators employing seemingly religious tests on nominees for public office. McPhee also examines the parameters of the "No Religious Test" clause, and why our Founding Fathers sought to include it in our Constitution.

What Are We Saved For? (Part 2) Mar 25, 2019

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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.

What Are We Saved For? (Part 1) Mar 18, 2019

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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.

Breaking Down and Building Up: Healing From Abuse Mar 11, 2019

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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 also walks through the step-by-step healing process she finds most effective for abuse survivors.

Parenting for an Immortalized Future Mar 04, 2019

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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 era where nearly everything they do is immortalized on social media.

Reframing Foster Care to Independence Feb 15, 2019

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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 independently.

Unmasking the Pro-Abortion Agenda Feb 11, 2019

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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 North Carolina's placement specifically, and what can be and is being done to move our state higher in the rankings.

The Cross and the Storm-Tossed Family Feb 04, 2019

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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 a healthy biblical family life that reflects the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Expert Insight Into NC's Upcoming Legislative Session Jan 28, 2019

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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 Assembly, and how he thinks this new legislature will address key issues such as abortion, school choice, and gambling.

Giving Marriage A Voice Jan 22, 2019

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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.