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Conversations on Christianity & the Public Square
The ERLC’s Andrew Walker and Daniel Patterson discuss proposed California legislation SB-1146 and its implications for religious higher education. SB1146 is scheduled for committee vote August 11 and a vote in the full California Assembly August 19. * Read, join, and share the statement...
Travis Wussow serves as the ERLC’s Director of International Justice and Religious Freedom. Travis taps in via the interwebs to visit with Canon & Culture to answer the following questions and many more: What’s what’s it like move your family from Texas to the Middle East? What...
Canon & Culture is invaded by Aggies when Phillip Bethancourt, Ph.D. (ERLC Executive VP) joins us to talk about the ERLC’s collaboration with Southern Baptist seminaries. We also get a glimpse into the many events the ERLC has planned for 2016...
Following oral arguments at the Supreme Court in Little Sisters of the Poor v. Burwell (aka Zubik v. Burwell), our ADF friends Kristen Waggoner and Greg Baylor stop by Leland House to explain the case and share what they witnessed in...
Canon & Culture welcomes a Lebanese missionary to Syria and a Syrian missionary to the United States to talk about the Gospel, the church in Syria, and the refugee crisis. For more information about our guests, Micheline and Mouna, and their...
One of our Capitol Hill neighbors, Aaron Mercer–VP of Government Relations for National Religious Broadcasters (NRB)–stops by ERLC’s Leland House to talk Internet freedom, viewpoint censorship, net neutrality, and his former life as a Senate staffer. * NRB.org * Annual Conference: Proclaim 16,...
My friend Stanley Carlson-Thies, Ph.D. joins me to talk about religious freedom for institutions, the exciting world of government regulations, and how religious institutions are navigating–or failing to navigate–new challenges to freedoms we once took for granted. * Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance *...
So how does this refugee thing work, exactly? In light of the worst refugee crisis since WWII, Canon & Culture welcomes Jenny Yang of World Relief to find out. From her vantage point at the historic humanitarian relief agency, Jenny provides a thorough...
In advance of China President Xi Jinping’s visit to the U.S. (Sept. 24-25), Kody Kness, vice president of China Aid, helps us think through the predicament of our fellow Christians in China and prisoners of conscience around the globe. * ChinaAid.org * Washington Post editorial,...
Mark Tooley stops by the ERLC’s Leland House on Capitol Hill to talk Methodism and politics, as well as give us a preview of his new book, released this summer by Harper Collins, The Peace that Almost Was, about the final attempt...
Dan Darling joins me in welcoming Congressman Diane Black (TN-6) to the podcast. Black discusses the Health Care Conscience Protection Act, supporting persecuted religious minorities in the Middle East, and her journey from registered nurse to seasoned elected official from the Volunteer...
Matt Hawkins interviews Brian Grim, president and founder of Religious Freedom & Business Foundation (RFBF). Brian answers the question, “What has religious freedom to do with business?” Brian is a sociologist by trade and, while at the Pew Forum, built...
Matt Hawkins interviews Brent McBurney, President and CEO of Advocates International. Matt and Brent talk about what the advocacy for religious freedom looks like in different places around the globe and how local professionals, particularly attorneys, play a role in facilitating freedom...
Casey Mattox of the Alliance Defending Freedom joins Andrew and Matt to discuss the Houston religious liberty fiasco and the SCOTUS non-decisions. Also, we discuss the California churches being forced to pay for abortions and The Hitching Post in Idaho.
Matt and Dan welcome Thomas Kidd, Ph.D. to talk George Whitefield, evangelism, discipleship, religious liberty, and much more. * Kidd’s latest book: George Whitefield: America’s Spiritual Founding Father * via Yale University Press * Amazon * Bio, CV at Baylor.edu * Dr. Kidd writes at the Anxious...
Matt Hawkins, Coalitions Director for ERLC, concludes this 2 part series on North Korea with Ed Brown of the Stefanus Alliance International, a Norway-based missions and human rights association. During this conversation Matt and Ed discuss, among other things: * How do we...
ERLC’s Coalitions Director Matt Hawkins welcomes Rev. Eric Foley, co-founder and CEO of Seoul USA. Seoul USA seeks to be a bridge between the church in the West and the church in Asia. The question up for discussion: What does life look like for...
Andrew welcomes Greg Forster to chat about his recent book, Joy for the World: How Christianity Lost Its Cultural Influence and Can Begin Rebuilding It. Related topics include everything from John Locke to Christmas carols. Dr. Forster serves as program director for the...
Dan and Matt welcome Josh Good of the American Enterprise Institute to discuss how economics and healthy families influence each other. Josh serves as Program Manager for AEI’s Values & Capitalism initiative. * Values & Capitalism * Books and more from V&C.; * Opportunities for...
Andrew and Matt welcome to the studio Tim Goeglein, VP of External Relations at Focus on the Family. Having established a career as a Christian in the public square, we find Mr. Goeglein uniquely suited to discuss, well, Christianity and the...
Kim Colby of Christian Legal Society visits Andrew and Matt at the Leland House in Washington, D.C. Topics include this week’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court for Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood, both plaintiffs against the United State’s government contraceptive/abortifacient...
On a recent visit to Atlanta, Andrew and Dan invade the studio of Erick Erickson, radio host and founder of RedState.com. Follow Erick on twitter: @EWErickson.
Dr. Barrett Duke, Vice President of Public Policy & Research at the ERLC joins the C&C; crew to talk about growing up in New Orleans, rejecting the church, planting a church, and thinking Christianly about public policy work. There so...
Dan Darling and Matt Hawkins catch up with Matt Lewis of the Daily Caller. Matt waxes eloquent on developing a career as a writer in the era of Buzzfeed and shrinking attention spans. And what about those social conservatives, am...
Co-belligerents Andrew Walker, Dan Darling and Matt Hawkins introduce the Canon & Culture initiative. Thankfully, someone remembered to press the record button this time. About Canon & Culture Canon & Culture’s purpose is to help build and strengthen the church’s social, ethical,...
