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Religion

We are Made for Communion

April 11, 2019 09:00 AM
"This is the great challenge facing us all: Will we embrace or accept communion?"
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Family

Marriage, Heroism, and National Greatness

March 26, 2019 09:00 AM
Catherine Pakaluk, an economist at the Catholic University of America explains the value of marriage as an institution in personal lives of heroism and the public good.
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Family

The Importance of Marriage Today

March 25, 2019 09:00 AM
Ryan Anderson from The Heritage Foundation gave the Wheatley Roundtable on Family Keynote Address on the importance of marriage today.
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Religion

Truman G. Madsen Lectures on Eternal Man

January 31, 2019 09:00 AM
Truman G. Madsen was a renowned philosopher, teacher, and biographer and regarded as one of the greatest LDS thinkers of our time. One of his goals as a founding senior fellow of the Wheatley Institute was to bring academic experts and civic leaders “to the fire” at BYU.
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Religion

Religious Pluralism in a Secular World

November 06, 2018 07:30 PM
Azza Karam, of the UN Population Fund, comes to the Wheatley Institute's annual Student Conference of Religion in the Public Sphere. She describes the fine line between supporting and patronizing religious actors across the world.
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Constitution

Bringing America Together

October 11, 2018 07:30 PM
Arthur Brooks, outgoing president of the American Enterprise Institute, believes that each American can root out contempt by proactively sharing warm-heartedness.
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Family

We Need Children Even More Than They Need Us

June 07, 2018 07:00 PM
In this Roundtable on the Family, Wheatley Fellow, Jenet Erickson Ph.D, tackles a unique perspective on children: instead of why do children need their parents, she looks at all of the positive ways parents are affected and transformed by their children.
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Religion

Globetrotting for Interfaith Harmony

February 01, 2018 07:00 PM
Dr. Shaun Casey, director of the Berkley Center and former U.S. special representative for religion and global affairs/director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs, details why religion should be a part of statecraft. He dives into his work establishing the Religion and Global Affairs office in the State Department and the work his office did in establishing religious harmony in the Israel-Palestine conflict, the refugee crisis, and the normalization of US-Cuba relations.
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Religion

When God and Caesar Meet: Religion, Secularism and the Public Square

November 07, 2017 06:00 PM
David Campbell from the University of Notre Dame presents the Keynote Address for the 2017 Wheatley Religion in the Public Square Conference. His talk discusses the surprising role that religion has played in partisan politics.
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Constitution

The Constitution, Political Culture, and Civic Virtue

October 19, 2017 06:00 PM
Robert P. George speaks at the 10th-anniversary celebration for the Wheatley Institute. He speaks about the liberal democracy each of us can participate in and the constitutional rules that empower our society.
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