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Family

Discovering Sexual Equality in Our Shared Response to Human Dependency

February 14, 2017 01:00 PM
Erika Bachiochi gives a lecture at the Wheatley Institute's 2017 Roundtable on the Family conference. Bachiochi addresses the reality of sexual asymmetry between genders and the dependency that men and women have on each other within society.
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Family

Family and Faith in a Pagan Time

February 14, 2017 12:00 PM
Mary Eberstadt delivers the 2017 Wheatley Roundtable on Family Keynote Address. Dr. Eberstadt discusses how we do live in a pagan time and the impact that has on the family.
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Suffer the Children: What it Means to be a Child in Today's Culture

February 14, 2017 12:00 PM
Jenet Erickson, affiliated scholar of the Wheatley Institution, identifies the challenges children face in today's society, within the context of evolving and non-traditional family structures.
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Defending the Idea of Traditional Marriage

February 14, 2017 10:00 AM
Sherif Girgis, co-author of "What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense" shares insights on how to defend marriage in a rational way at the Wheatley Institute's 2017 Roundtable of the Family conference.
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Family

Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage & Religious Freedom

July 05, 2016 05:00 PM
Ryan T. Anderson, Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, gives a lecture concerning his thoughts on the breakdown of the family, and what we can do to strengthen families. He speaks concerning the pro-life movement and beliefs about marriage in various settings. Anderson discusses the importance of forming alliances to protect religious freedoms. This lecture was delivered on March 24, 2016.
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Family

Individual Rights and the Wellbeing of Children

March 24, 2016 06:00 PM
Jenet Erickson, affiliated scholar at the Wheatley Institute, discusses how a culture centered exclusively on individual rights and desires poses great risks to the most vulnerable among us: our children.
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Family

What Follows for the Family

March 23, 2016 04:00 PM
Robert P. George in this lecture discusses polyamory, throuples, and how they affect marriage and the family.
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Family

The Natural Laws of Sex

March 20, 2015 07:00 PM
J. Budziszewski, a professor of government and philosophy at University of Texas at Austin, spoke about the unique characteristics of sex and how the gender qualities compliment one another.
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Family

Ready or Not? The Rise of Paradoxical Preparation for Marriage

March 20, 2015 06:00 PM
Jason Carroll, professor at Brigham Young University, presents three key fragmentations occurring in our cultural understandings of marriage, claiming that these fragmentations are transforming how we prepare for a successful, loving, and lasting marital relationship.
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Marriage Makes the Man: How Marriage Makes Men Work Harder, Smarter, and More Successfully

March 19, 2015 06:00 PM
W. Bradford Wilcox, professor at the University of Virginia, presents scientific evidence showing the positive effects of marriage on men's lives.
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Religion

Post Modern, Post Secular, Post Religious

October 19, 2016 07:00 PM
John D. Caputo discusses the complexities of post-modern religious sentiments.
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Truth, Marriage, and Standing Up for Religious Freedom

July 12, 2016 05:00 PM
Robert P. George, McCormick Chair of Jurisprudence, Princeton University, sat down with Richard N. Williams, Director of the Wheatley Institute. Robert P. George discusses the roles of public intellectuals, the virtue of dispassion, and dedicating our lives to the pursuit of truth. George talks about how he came to be involved in the academic field. They delve into the question of why do we argue, and understanding marriage and the importance of conjugal marriage. Religious liberty as a foundational liberty.
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The Spiritual Child: Educating the Head and the Heart

March 31, 2016 05:00 PM
Lisa Miller, Professor & Director of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University, discusses spiritual development as it pertains to children and adolescents.
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Religion

The Nature & Basis of Religious Freedom

March 24, 2016 04:00 PM
Robert P. George is the McCormick Chair in Jurisprudence at Princeton University. In this lecture he discusses just and unjust laws, and political morality. George talks of humanity's ability to flourish or fail to flourish, what religion is, and faith's incapability to be coerced. He goes through and analyzes a quotation from Nostra Aetate, the Declaration of the Church to Non-Christian Religions.
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How (Not) To Be Secular: Responding To A New Millennium

March 10, 2016 05:00 PM
James Smith, professor at Calvin College, makes a case against rising secularism, emphasizing the continued presence of spirituality, and he asserts that a secularist explanation of humanity cannot account for spiritually motivated behaviors.
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Faith, Learning, & Educating for Wisdom

September 30, 2015 06:00 PM
Darin Davis, professor at Baylor University, addresses the pursuit of wisdom in educational objectives, discussing how the emphasis on values has shifted in contemporary moral and intellectual goals of education.
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Interfaith Leadership in a Time of Religious Global Conflict

February 25, 2014 07:00 PM
Eboo Patel, founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core, examines what it means to be an interfaith leader, focusing on the difficulties and benefits of diversity.
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Constitution

Disciple Scholars and the Constitution

December 18, 2024 02:52 PM
Distinguished Wheatley Fellow Kevin J. Worthen gave a devotional address at BYU-Idaho about disciple-scholars and their unique responsibility to uphold the Constitution.
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Constitution

The Pursuit of Happiness

November 13, 2024 04:00 PM
Wheatley Institute and the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies welcomed Jeff Rosen to BYU campus on Nov 13, 2025 as he spoke on his recent book, "The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America," a New York Times bestseller and an enriching examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy.
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Constitution

The Constitution and America's Reflective Patriotism

September 19, 2024 04:05 PM
Watch Dr. Paul Carrese's full remarks from his September 19, 2024 lecture.
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Constitution

Robert P. George: The Constitution and Civic Virtue

March 11, 2024 12:54 PM
George discussed what institutions—beginning with the family—instill the habits of mind that make for good citizenship.
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Constitution

Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett Visit Wheatley Institute

February 09, 2023 02:33 PM
Wheatley gets a visit from the authors of "The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again"
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Danielle Allen and W. B. Allen Share Thoughts on the American Experiment

December 01, 2022 02:19 PM
Conversation with Father-Daughter Duo of Political Scholars
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Constitution

Town Hall with Governor Cox

October 24, 2022 02:29 PM
The BYU campus community was invited to sit down with Utah Governor Spencer Cox.
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Constitution

The Constitution Under Pressure: Lessons From Abraham Lincoln

September 19, 2022 12:08 PM
Author, religion and ethics scholar, historian, and Harvard law professor, Noah Feldman, addressed the BYU community as part of Constitution Week. Feldman's lecture focused on ideas from his book, "The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery & The Refounding of America." All are welcome to attend the lecture.
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Constitution

Moving From a Culture that Divides Us to a Culture that Unites Us

November 22, 2021 09:00 AM
On November 11, Timothy Shriver gave a lecture on “Moving From a Culture that Divides Us to a Culture that Unites Us.” The event was sponsored jointly by the Office of Civic Engagement and the Wheatley Institute. Tim and his growing team at UNITE, are building around a bold vision to promote national unity and mutual respect across differences. They are working to find solutions that transcend tired debates and old divides.
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