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NC Family's Family Policy Matters
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.
Episodes
- NC Family's Family Policy Matters
An Impartial, Nonpartisan Look At North Carolina Candidates
This weekon Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Jere Royall and Jake Sipe, members of the NC Family staff. They discuss the…
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A Simple Yet Powerful Way To Celebrate Religious Freedom
This week on Family Policy Matters,NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Candi Cushman, Director of Education Issues at Focus on the Family. They…
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Surrounding Family In Crisis With Caring Compassionate Community
This week on Family Policy Matters,NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Kimberly Curlin, the Director of the Wake County Chapter of Safe Families…
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The Next Chapter In North Carolina's Fight Against The Opioid Crisis
This week on Family Policy Matters,NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks withDr. Greg Murphy,a State Representative, physician, and surgeon from…
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Addressing The Growing Risk Of Teen Depression
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Dr. Jane Anderson, a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of…
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How Parents Can Help Young People Avoid 'Faith Drift'
NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Brad Griffin, Associate Director of the Fuller Youth Institute, which focuses on providing research, resources…
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Exploring School Choice Options In North Carolina
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Brian Jodice, Executive Vice President for Parents for Educational Freedom…
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Giving Children A Voice In Family Structure Debate
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Katy Faust, founder and director of Them Before Us, an organization devoted…
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Being A Grandparent: Just Like Being A Parent Only Different
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Dr. Ray Guarendi, a clinical psychologist for over 40 years and author of…
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The Dating Deficit And The Decline of Courtship Culture
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speak with Catherine Fowler Sample, writer and producer of the award-winning film "The…
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Serving Christ Through Compassionate And Accessible Healthcare
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family Pastor Outreach Director Thomas Graham interviews Susanne Berger. Berger is the Board Chair of Neighbor Health…
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Declining Fertility Rate A Threat To Americans
Dr. Pat Fagan, Founder and Director of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute (MARRI), discusses the dramatic shift in western nations away from intact…
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Seeking Authentic Lifelong Friendship In An Increasingly Impersonal World
This week, NC Family President interviewed Father Sean Raftis, a parish priest in Montana who has become well-known in recent years as one of the Gonzaga Prep…
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Religious Liberty Has Its Roots In The Bible
This week we will be re-airing a wonderful interview from May 2017 between NC Family President John L. Rustin, and Andrew Walker, Director of Policy Studies at…
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Grassroots Efforts On Sex Education Have Statewide Impact
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John Rustin interviews Janet Oehl, an activist with Onslow Protect Our Students. They discuss the fight…
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The Opioid Epidemic's Toll On The Foster Care System
This week on Family Policy Matters Traci Griggs, Director of Communications at NC Family, interviews Jo Teague, substance abuse counselor for Wake County Human…
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Walking With Mothers In Tangible Ways On A College Campus
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family Pastor Outreach Director Thomas Graham interviews Debbie Capen, Executive Director of MiraVia, a pregnancy care…
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Exploring The Intricacies Of School Safety
This week on Family Policy Matters NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Lindsey Burke, Director of the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage…
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Running Into The Brokenness Of Culture With Hope, Restoration, And Redemption
This week on Family Policy Matters we will be airing an inspiring speech by John Stonestreet, President of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. The…
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Integrating Faith And Medical Care
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family Pastor Outreach Director, Thomas Graham, spoke with Dr. Patrick O'Connell, founder of Sentinel Primary Care. They…
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Putting Children's Interest First In American Family Law
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin talks with Helen Alvare, a family law professor at George Mason University's Scalia Law…
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Passing On A Legacy Of Good Values To The Next Generation
This is Part 2 of a 2-part discussion between NC Family President John L. Rustin and Dr. Thomas Lickona, a developmental psychologist and professor of…
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Creating A Positive Family Environment That Fosters Kindness And Respect
This week NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Dr. Thomas Lickona, a developmental psychologist and professor of education at the State University of…
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Equipping Christians to Think, Pray and Vote
This week NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Jason Yates, CEO of My Faith Votes, a non-partisan movement of the church in America that seeks to…
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An Invitation To Engage With The History, Impact, and Narrative Of The Bible
This week NC Family's Pastor Outreach Director, Thomas Graham, talks with Jeremy Burton, Director of Communications at the Museum of the Bible. They discuss…
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Proclamation And Persuasion: Learning To Communicate In Polarized Times
This week NC Family Director of Communications, Traci Griggs, speaks with Dr. Tom Barrett and Tim Downs, the hosts of the weekly podcast "The Communications…
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Turning Back The Tide Of The Opioid Epidemic
This week NC Family President John Rustin speaks with Dr. Omar Manejwala, Chief Medical Officer of Catasys and a one of the nation's leading experts of…
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Valuable Insights On Today's Hot Button Cultural Topics
This week NC Family President John Rustin speaks with Nancy Pearcey, a renowned Christian apologist and professor in residence at Houston Baptist University…
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Bearing Each Other's Burdens: Addressing Racism As Christians
This week NC Family President speaks with Dr. Russell Moore, President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the public policy arm of the Sothern…
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A Local Victory For Religious Liberty
This week NC Family President speaks with Stephanie Barclay, Counsel at The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a non-profit, public-interest legal and…
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Reintroducing the Beauty of Marriage to Millennials
NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Jennifer Murff, President of Millennials for Marriage, about her organization's work to shift culture, change…
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A Closer Look At The Real Costs Of The Lottery
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Les Bernal, the National Director of Stop Predatory Gambling. They discuss…
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North Carolina A National Leader In School Choice
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Darrell Allison, president of Parents for Education Freedom in North…
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Keeping The Government Out of America's Pulpits
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Erik Stanley, senior counsel and director of the Center for Christian…
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A Reason For Hope And Concern in Religious Liberty
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with David Christensen, Vice President for Government Affairs with the Family…
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Making Sense of the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017"
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Andrew Guernsey, a Legislative Assistant for Government Affairs with the…
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An Unconventional Story of Hope
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Ryan Bomberger, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at the Radiance…
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Walking With Families Through The Toughest Times A Parent Can Face
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family Pastor Outreach Director Thomas Graham speaks with Tracy Winsor, co-founder of Be Not Afraid, a ministry provides…
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Healthy Actions and Expectations Before Saying "I Do"
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, the founder of the Ruth Institute, a global…
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The Best Part of Being American
This week on Family Policy Matters, the North Carolina Family Policy Council staff has a roundtable discussion where they each share their favorite part about…
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Proclaiming the Joy of Being Made in the Image and Likeness of God
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family Pastor Outreach Director Thomas Graham speaks with Damon Owens, founder and Executive Director of joytob, a…
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A Disturbing Proposal Concerning Parental Rights
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Peter Sprigg, Senior Fellow for Policy Studies at Family Research Council in…
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Putting Pro-Life Belief Into Action Through Adoption
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Rob Schwarzwalder, Senior Lecturer at Regent University and former Senior…
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Navigating the Legalities of Religious Expression during the Christmas Season
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Tom Brejcha, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More society. They…
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The Origins and Importance of Thanksgiving
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Dr. Bradley Birzer, a Professor of History and the Russell Amos Kirk Chair…
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Cultivating Christian Life and Thought
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family Pastor Outreach Director Thomas Graham speaks with Madison Perry, Executive Director of the NC Study Center. They…
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The Best of Times and the Worst of Times for American Journalism
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family Director of Communications Traci Griggs speaks with John Miller, director of the journalism program at Hillsdale…
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Embracing the Better Angels of our Nature
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with David Lapp who is the lead organizer for a group entitled "Better Angels."…
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A More Accurate Way of Talking about Sexual Abstinence
Our guest is Mary Anne Mosack, Executive Director of Ascend, an advocacy organization that works in the realm of Sexual Risk Avoidance education. She discusses…
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Serving at the Intersection of Ministry and Business
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family Pastor Outreach Director Thomas Graham speaks with Jim Dotson, Executive Director of Mission Increase Raleigh…
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Religious Liberty Attacks on the Rise in America
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Kelly Shackleford, President and CEO of First Liberty Institute, the…
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Embracing the Messiness of Parenthood
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Paul Asay, an award-winning journalist who currently serves as senior…
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Religious Freedom in Education Can Change America
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Justin Butterfield, Director of Research and Education for First Liberty…
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The Often Unidentified Problem Of Sex Trafficking Of Boys
NC Family Pastor Outreach Director Thomas Graham speaks with Chris and Anna Smith, Co-Founders of Restore One Ministry in this month's "Focus on Faith"…
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Classical Education: What and Why
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin continues a discussion with Brett Kunkle, co-author—along with the Colson Center's John…
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Saved From The World And For The World
This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John L. Rustin speaks with Brett Kunkle, co-author—along with the Colson Center's John Stonestreet—of a…
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Divorce's Echo
Leila Miller talks about her new book, Primal Loss: The Now-Adult Children of Divorce Speak.
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New Evidence: The Success Sequence Works
Dr. Brad Wilcox, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, discusses "the millennial success sequence," a specific sequence of life events, including…
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Count The Cost Of Speaking Out
NC Family Pastor Outreach Director Thomas Graham speaks with Dr. Kenyn Cureton, Vice President of Church Ministries at the Family Research Council, in our…
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A Return To A Sanctity Of Life Ethic In Medical Care
Dr. Marty McCaffrey, a clinical professor in neonatal and perinatal medicine at UNC Chapel Hill, and Director of the Perinatal Quality Collaborative of North…