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Faith and Law — 208 episodes

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The Making of the American Mind: The Story of our Declaration of Independence

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Why are there more abortions after Dobbs? Gen Z and the Pro-life Future

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Vice in an Internet Age

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The Indispensable Virtues of the Indispensable Man:  A Moral Biography of George Washington

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Restoring the American Imagination

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What Am I Doing Here? Rediscovering Purpose and Joy in Your Work

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Bear Witness: The Pursuit of Justice in a Violent Land

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Restore the Republic — 2026, the Last Best Chance for the Last Best Hope

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Politics and Our Sense of the Divine

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From Division to Solidarity: Hope for a Fractured Politics

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The Constitution is the Solution to the Politics of Division

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Classical Liberalism: A Treasury Worth Defending

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The Public Policy Calling

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The Power of Forgiveness in a Culture of Rage

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Faithful Free Speech: From Campus to the Hill

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Religious Liberty and Parental Opt-Outs: School Choice at the Supreme Court

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Religious Liberty, the Source of All Freedoms: A 250-Year Perspective

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Politics and Sausage Making

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Bringing Ben Home: A Story of Injustice and Redemption

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2026: Recovering What Made America Great in the First Place

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From Power to Redemption: Chuck Colson and the Legacy of Second Chances

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Able to Succeed: People with Disabilities and the Imago Dei

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Is Religious Liberty Compatible with Progress?

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Living Truthfully: Ellul, Propaganda, and the Christian Mind

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Natural Law as a Basis for “Hopeful Realism” in Democratic Politics

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Are Religion and Politics Indivisible? Models for Pluralist Democracies

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The Cost of Perfection: How Overparenting is Hurting Our Kids

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New Media and the Future of Religion

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The Trials and Tribulations of Living an Ethical Life on Capitol Hill

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Leading Together in Divided Times

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The Global Flourishing Study: An Interim Report for Policymakers

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Understanding Violent Crime and the Policy Responses

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Where Are We Now? Faith in the Public Square

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Optimism and Opportunity: Faithful Perspectives on Technological Advancement

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Reflecting on Israel-Gaza at One Year: War Abroad, Polarization at Home

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America at 250 years: The Role of Religion Then – and Now

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Impacting Babylon

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Finding Unity – Constitutionally Speaking

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Thinking Biblically about Bioethics: A Conversation about IVF

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Caring for Creation as a Matter of Life: Christian Environmental Stewardship

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Religious Liberty and Regulations: Implications of Overturning Chevron

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The Closing of the American Heart: Why young adults are steering clear of marriage and family and what Washington can do about it

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Productive Disagreement: How to have productive disagreements in an age of incivility and conflict

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From the Garden to Government: What does Creation have to do with Politics?

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Up the Down Staircase: How to Build Up When Everything Seems to be Falling Down?

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Why Law Requires Love: A Reflection on Genesis and Cicero

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Unlocking Second Chances: Balancing public safety with successful reentry for the 1 in 3 American adults with a criminal record

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Subsidiarity as a Framework for Care of the Elderly

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Christians after Christendom: Our Present Challenge

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2026 and the 250th anniversary of the American revolution: Is this America’s expiration date or a challenge to renew the great experiment in freedom?

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Is Renewal Possible? Peering past outrage, war and critique

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The Spirit of Our Politics

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Agency vs Equity: An Empowering Alternative to the Victimhood Narrative

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Trials and Tribulations of Living an Ethical Life on Capitol Hill 2024

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Why Should Our Leaders Care About Human Flourishing?

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The Global Fight to Protect People from Slavery and Violence

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Western Civilization: Is It Worth Defending?

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The Roots of the American Founding and the Seeds of Renewal: How American Christianity Advanced Ordered Liberty

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A Note on Social Justice: What Kind of Justice Isn’t “Social”?

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Artificial Intelligence and Other Idols

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Bioethical Challenges and Exploiting Nascent Human Beings

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The Politicization of Literally Everything: Christian Leadership in the Age of Purity Tests and Cancel Culture

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The New Fight for Life: Roe, Race, and a Pro-Life Commitment to Justice

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Compassion First: A Sensible Approach to America’s Homeless Crisis

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2023 Evening Forum: Capitol Hill Forty Years Later

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Where Do We Go from Here? Life and Race in Post-Dobbs America

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No Coup, No Problem? Civil-Military Relations in an Age of Polarization

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Fostering Reentry Success: Advancing Second Chances in the 118th Congress

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Anxiety in our Lives and our Politics

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Interview with Russell Moore and David French

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Pursuing Common Ground: How Religious Freedom is Vital for the Common Good

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Fostering Trust: A Conversation on Police Training and Mental Health

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How to love your country without being a nationalist

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The Trials and Tribulations of Living an Ethical Life on Capitol Hill

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The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, The Cold War, and the World on the Brink

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Winsome Conversations: Politics in the Midst of Polarization

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Public Intellectuals, the Public Square and the Pursuit of the Common Good

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(When) Can Gossip be Just?

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The Foundation of Human Trafficking and Current Policy Trends

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Our civilizational moment: The crisis of the West, the war of the worlds, and the faith required for our time

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Child Care: Should the Government Pay for It?

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To Invent is Divine: How Strong Patent Rights Help Us to Reflect God's Innovative Nature

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Is Our Foreign Policy Good? American Moral Absolutism and the China Challenge

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The Church and a Polarized America

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Serving Women and Children in a Post-Roe World

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Putin vs. Zelensky: Religion, Holy War, and Just War in the Current Crisis

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The Missing Religious Center: How the Decline of Christianity Polarized America

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Religious Liberty on Trial at the Supreme Court

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Criminal Justice Reform: Advancing a Culture of Second Chances

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The Imago Dei and Culture

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The Dobbs Case: Is abortion a "right" without a constitutional foundation?

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We the Fallen People: Redefining Ourselves for a Healthier Democracy

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The Trials and Tribulations of Living an Ethical Life on Capitol Hill

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Religious Freedom in Healthcare: Can we both serve the poor and protect Christian doctors and nurses?

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Christian Political Judgment

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U.S. Immigration Policy: Can we achieve safety, security, and compassion?

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Forget Me Not: Supporting Those Impacted By Reproductive Loss with Michaelene Fredenburg

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The Calling to Servant Leadership: Distinctives and difficulties of a Christian understanding of leadership in today’s world

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Finding your path: A Conversation with Congressman Mike Johnson

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Evidence for the Existence of a Merciful God

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Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living

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Why the Childcare Provisions in the American Families Plan Won't Help Working Class Families

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"How Faith, Perseverance and Opportunity Shaped an American Dream" featuring Senator Tim Scott

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More Radical than Roe: The New Absolutism on Abortion

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Restoring Trust in Our Institutions

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A Biblical Framework for Public Policy Engagement

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Senior Staff Reading Group: Abortion is Unconstitutional

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The Battle over American History and Civics: The Traps and Perils of Having a National Plan

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The Historic Atrocity Determinations Against the CCP: Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity in Xinjiang

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From Polarization to Peacemaking: How Christians Can Change the Trajectory on Capitol Hill

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Does Democracy Still Matter? Exploration of Democracy in a Divided Country and World

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Covid and the Courts: Current threats to Religious Freedom

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Environmental Stewardship: Caring for Creation and Climate Action as a Matter of Life

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How to Succeed on Capitol Hill

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Fostering Racial Unity: Listening and Learning from African American Leaders

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Can We Build a House United in 2021?

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Trump, Evangelicals, and the Present Crisis

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Excellence in Work and Following Christ on the Hill

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Humanizing Education Policy: Foundational Principles for Education in a Free Society

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The American Future Post-2020: Short-Term and Long-Range

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Social Justice: Biblical and Secular

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Entrepreneurship for Human Flourishing

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Divided Hearts of America: A journey to discover the truth about abortion in America

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The Report on Unalienable Rights

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Professional Integrity on Capitol Hill: Politics, power, pride, and God's plan for our lives

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Chemical Abortion 101

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Why Should Policy Leaders (and Policy Schools) Care about Loneliness?

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A Roundtable Discussion: Capitol Hill Personal Ministry During and After the Pandemic

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The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self

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For the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty

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Becoming a Reconciling Community in an Age of Racial Unrest

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Russell Moore on the Supreme Court: Reflections on the Decisions and Dissents

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Consumed by Hate, Redeemed by Love: How a Violent Klansman Became a Champion of Racial Reconciliation

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Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race

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Working on Capitol Hill: A Discussion about Racial Reconciliation and the Role of Personal Ministries

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The Church in Quarantine: Thinking Theologically About The Covid Crisis

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The Politician Who Never Left Ministry: Senator Lankford's Calling to Capitol Hill

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Unexpected Suffering: Seeing God While Walking Through Life's Redefining Moments

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Trust and Hope in the Time of Pandemic: The Essential Role of the Church and Community in Coronavirus Recovery

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Virtue and the Natural Law

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The Chinese Communist Party and the Coronavirus

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Suffering, Friendship, and Courage: What Lewis & Tolkien Teach us about Resilience & Imagination

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Paid Family Leave: Supporting Families During the COVID-19 Crisis and the Post-Pandemic Society

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Horizon 2020: Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Christian Faith in a Year of Global Crisis

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The COVID-19 Impact on the Criminal Justice System: Amplifying the Need for Second Chances

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The Economic Implications of the COVID-19 Crisis

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The Kingdoms of Men and the Kingdom of God

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Free to Believe: The Battle Over Religious Liberty in America

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1776 v. 1789: A tale of two revolutions and their relevance to America’s current crisis

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Discrimination or Disintegration: Understanding Populism

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The Pitfalls of a Political Faith

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I Was Hungry: Cultivating Common Ground to End An American Crisis

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Recasting Religious Freedom: Is Conservative Jurisprudence Backing into Relativism?

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Ten Times Better: How to Thrive in an Adversarial Government Environment

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Did America Have a Christian Founding?

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Our generation’s defining accomplishment: ending extreme poverty

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Divisible, Not Incompatible: Strengthening Human Rights by Preventing Their Politicization.

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27 Million Lives Saved - The Role of the Faith Community and the Fight to End AIDS through PEPFAR and the Global Fund

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Os Guiness: Carpe Diem Redeemed: Seizing the Day, Discerning the Times

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Mary Eberstadt: Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics

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Bill Wichterman: The Culture: Upstream from Politics

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Katherine Haley: A Former Hill Staffer Story: Why I Decided to Forgo Medical School for a Calling to Capitol Hill

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Heather Rice-Minus: Bipartisanship Still Breathing: Finding Common Ground through a Restorative Approach to Justice

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Divided Politics and Lonely Americans: A Conversation with Senator Ben Sasse and Dr. Os Guinness to Offer Hope and Healing to an Ailing America

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The Role of Faith Leaders in Uganda and the U.S. in the Fight against Global AIDS

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Muslim-Christian Conflict: Lessons from History

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Is Nationalism Identity Politics for the Right? An Examination of Tribalism and Identity Politics in America

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Bringing Jesus into your Workplace: Lessons I learned in Congress and as an Ambassador

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Finding the North Star: Understanding a Christian Worldview Framework for Working on the Hill

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Last Call for Liberty

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Fighting for Life: Why Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia are Not the Answer

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The Fabric of Character: Renewing our Social and Moral Landscape

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Caring for the Orphan: Alternatives to Charity in Responding to God's Heart for the Poor

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High Noon for Humanity

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Loving Our Neighbor and the Race-Transcending Gospel

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The Bible & Race

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The Power of Perseverance

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Fighting Modern Slavery with Faith and Foreign Aid

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The Global Refugee Crisis: What are U.S. obligations and the Church’s Response?

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Christian Just War Thinking for Today

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The Tragedies of Compassionate Conservatism

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Building Multi-Ethnically to Preach Multi-Ethnically: Aiding the Church to be God's Embassy to the World

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Is Evangelicalism outdated? Facing up to times of public shame, rejection and hostility.

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Effective Compassion

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Civility Is Needed Most When It's Most Difficult

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Momentous: Key Supreme Court Cases for the 2017-18 Term

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The Luther Option: How Martin Luther's Reformation Transformed the World

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Why Machines Won't Replace Us: A Defense of Human Uniqueness

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The Hill as Your School of Spiritual Formation

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Staying the Course: Stories and Wisdom from 44 Years of Faith in Politics

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The Future of Christianity in the Middle East and How to Deal with Violent Islamic Extremism

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Religious Liberty Under Fire

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Caring for Creation, Caring for the Poor: A Biblical, Scientific, and Economic Perspective on Climate and Energy Policy

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This Side of Genocide: Onsite reporting among the persecuted people groups of Iraq and Syria.

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Christian Courage and the Challenges of Our Times

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Hannah More: How Literature Changed the Law in Georgian England

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What Politicians should say when they are asked about Evolution

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Doing Our Duty While Living in Exile

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The Tragedy of Henry Laurens

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A Light in This Present Darkness

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Intelligent design and the origins of the universe

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My Brother's Keeper

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The Disputed Kingship and the Democratization of Everything

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Why Has the United States Failed in its Policy of Advancing International Religious Freedom?

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How to Alleviate Widespread Poverty (and Create Wealth)

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Liberty, Justice and the Future of American Conservatism

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Christian responses to Suffering

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The Faith of Ronald Reagan