Robert Gagnon, Ph.D
Robert A. J. Gagnon, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He has a B.A. degree from Dartmouth College, an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of “The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics” (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2001); co-author (with Dan O. Via) of “Homosexuality and the Bible: Two Views” (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003); and author of a number of articles in scholarly journals and of major entries in encyclopedias having to do with various subjects relating to the Bible and early Christianity. As a service to the church Dr. Gagnon provides on his website at www.robgagnon.net many articles on the subject of Scripture and homosexuality.
Freda Bush, MD
Freda McKissic Bush, M.D., is a practicing OB-GYN in Jackson, MS and a Clinical Instructor in the Department of OB-GYN and Department of Family Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Dr. Bush served as a Presidential appointee to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. She is a Board Member of The Medical Institute for Sexual Health and co-authored the book, “HOOKED: New Science on How Casual Sex is Affecting Our Children,” with Joe S. McIlhaney, M.D. She was a contributing writer to “Faith Matters: How African American Faith Communities Can Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy,” published by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. She has been interviewed on several TV programs including The Mike and Juliet Show on Fox News TV, CBS Early Show, Everyday with Marcus and Lisa on Family Net TV, as well as numerous radio programs including Focus on the Family with Dr. James Dobson, Janet Parshal’s America, The Marsha Sumner Radio Show, and Family Life Today with Dennis Rainey. Married for 41 years to her husband, engineer Lee Bush. They have four children, two sons-in-law and seven grandchildren.
Doug Allen, Ph.D
Doug Allen is the Burnaby Mountain professor of economics at Simon Fraser University. His research is a little unusual for an economist. Rather than study the terms of trade or levels of production, his research has focused on how exchange, production, and life in general is organized. This has led him to study the family (marriage and divorce, child support guidelines, the life-cycle demand for sex, and same sex marriage), the farm (share contracts, lease markets, ownership of assets, and the survival of family run farm enterprises), history (the purchase of military commissions, the success of the British Navy during the age of sail, homesteading, the Klondike gold rush, the practice of patronage in pre-modern times, and dueling with pistols), and the general theory of organizations. Professor Allen is the author of two popular undergraduate microeconomic theory textbooks. He has also co-edited a book on the family, co-authored a book on farm organization, and has recently completed a book on pre-modern British institutions. He has also received three teaching awards over the years, although he tells his audiences to "not get their hopes up too much ... it is still economics after all."
Tom Spence
Thomas Spence is president and publisher of Spence Publishing Company and the director of Spence Media. After graduating from Dartmouth College, he earned a law degree from the University of Chicago and a master’s in history from Harvard. He was editor in chief at WRS Publishing before founding Spence Publishing in 1996. He has been featured in Publishers Weekly, the Boston Globe, the Dartmouth Review, Insight, and the Washington Times and has written for the Dallas Morning News and the American Enterprise.
Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D
Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. is the founder and President of the Ruth Institute, a non-profit educational institute promoting lifelong married love at home, at work and in the public square. She is also the Senior Research Fellow in Economics at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. She is the author of Smart Sex: Finding Life-long Love in a Hook-up World, (2005) and Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn’t Work (2001), recently reissued in paperback, as Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village. Dr. Morse served as a Research Fellow for Stanford University’s Hoover Institution from 1997-2005. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester in 1980 and spent a postdoctoral year at the University of Chicago during 1979-80. She taught economics at Yale University and George Mason University for 15 years. She was John M. Olin visiting scholar at the Cornell Law School in fall 1993. She is a regular contributor to the National Review Online, National Catholic Register, Town Hall, MercatorNet and To the Source.
Jennifer Lahl, MA
Jennifer Lahl, is founder and national director of The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, an organization working to shed light on the bioethics issues within our culture that most profoundly affect our humanity, and advancing the voice of a morally responsible science that respects the inherent value of humanity and that celebrates its beauty and complexity. Lahl couples her 25 years experience as a pediatric critical care nurse, hospital administrator and senior-level nursing management, with a deep passion to speak for those who have no voice. Lahl's' writings have appeared in various publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Dallas Morning News and the American Journal of Bioethics. As a field expert she is routinely interviewed on radio and television including ABC, CBC, PBS and NPR and called upon to speak alongside lawmakers and members fo the scientific community, even being invited to speak to members of the European Parliament in Brussels to address egg trafficking. She is founding director of Every Woman First and serves on the North American Editorial Board for Ethics and Medicine as well as Board of Reference for Joni Eareckson Tada's Institute on Disability.
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Angela Franks, Ph.D
Angela Franks, Ph.D has a doctorate in theology and an M.A. in philosophy. She is the Director of Theology Programs for the Theological Institute for the New Evangelization at St. John’s seminary in Massachusetts. She served, with her husband David, as the coordinator for the Massachusetts Catholic Conference Marriage Initiative, entitled “The Future Depends on Love,” and they co-hosted a series of the same name on CatholicTV. Franks is in demand as a speaker, author, and teacher. She is the author of Margaret Sanger’s Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility (2005) and contributed a chapter to Women, Sex, and the Church (2010). She writes and speaks on abortion, eugenics, the theology of the body, marriage, Humanae Vitae, life issues, and feminism, among other topics. She and David are the proud parents of five children, whom they homeschool.
Bill Duncan, J.D.
William Duncan is the director of the Marriage Law Foundation, a legal organization whose mission is providing legal resources in defense of marriage as the union of a husband and wife. He previously served as acting director of the Marriage Law Project at the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law and a visiting professor at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School. He teaches family law to undergraduates at BYU as an adjunct professor. Mr. Duncan is the author of dozens of scholarly articles, book chapters and popular commentary on family issues. These include articles published by the Rutgers University Law Review, Stanford Review of Law and Politics, Ave Maria Law Review, and The Family in America. He has drafted pro-family legislation that has been enacted in various states, submitted numerous legal briefs on behalf of pro-family groups in cases attacking state definitions of marriage, and has testified in front of legislative committees in a variety of states. He has also presented at academic conferences at many universities. He edits a monthly publication, the Marriage Law Digest, which summarizes important cases and academic literature involving marriage and family issues. Mr. Duncan is married to Catherine Allred Duncan and they are the home schooling parents of seven children.
Pat Fagan
Senior Fellow Director, Center for Family and Religion Family Research Council. Patrick F. Fagan is a Senior Fellow at the Family Research Council since October 2007. Prior to that he was the William H.G. FitzGerald Senior Research Fellow in Family and Cultural Issues at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC where he examined the relationship between family, marriage, religion, community, and America’s social problems by utilizing social scientific research to inform public policy on issues such as crime, abuse, welfare, adoption, education, income, and general well-being.
Lynn D Wardle, Esq
Senior Fellow Lynn D. Wardle is the Bruce C. Hafen Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University where his teaching and writing focus primarily on Family Law and related subjects. A graduate of Duke Law School (1974) and Brigham Young University, he clerked for the Honorable Judge John J. Sirica, U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., 1974-75, practiced law in Arizona, since 1978 has taught at BYU Law School, and has visited at law faculties at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland), Sophia University (Japan), University of Queensland, China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing), and Howard University. He is past President of the International Society of Family Law, is a member of the American Law Institute, and is active in the Federalist Society. He has testified about family-related law and policy before committees of the U.S. House and Senate, and of many state legislatures. Some of his recent publications are listed here.
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Todd Hartch, Ph.D
Todd Hartch, an Associate Professor of History at Eastern Kentucky University, received his doctorate in History from Yale University in 2000. His book Missionaries of the State examines the surprising partnership between the American Protestant missionaries of the Wycliffe Bible Translators and the secular nationalist regime of Lázaro Cárdenas in Mexico. He currently is writing one book on priest and social critic Ivan Illich’s influence on the American Catholic missionary initiative of the 1960s and another on the history of Christianity in Latin America since 1960. In 2010 he founded the Veritas Catholic Faculty Fellowship and began writing on marriage and religion for Public Discourse and The Catholic Thing.
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Dale S. Kuehne, Ph.D
Dale S. Kuehne (PhD, Georgetown University) is the Richard L. Bready Professor of Ethics, Economics, and the Common Good at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. He is also a Professor in the Department of Politics and was the Founding Director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. In addition, he serves as the vice-chair of the State of New Hampshire Executive Branch Ethics Commission. Kuehne recently authored "Sex and the iWorld: Rethinking Relationship Beyond an Age of Individualism" and has published several articles. He received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota, a M.A.T.S. in Church History from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Theory from Georgetown University.
He is at work finishing his current book tentatively titled: "Love in the Ruins: Recovering a Relational Polity in the 21st Century." It is basically the follow-on book to "Sex and the iworld." Kuehne is still an ordained minister in good standing with the Evangelical Covenant Church of America.
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Scott Yenor, Ph.D
Prof. Scott Yenor earned his Ph.D. from Loyola University Chicago in 2000 and now teaches political philosophy at Boise State University. His book, "Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought," was published by Baylor University Press in 2011. The book explores how family politics argues that marriage is more than a contract, though the perspective of contract has come to dominate Western thinking. Prof. Yenor has been trying, however imperfectly, to reduce this teaching to practice as he lives and loves his wife, Amy, and their five children.
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Rev. Donald Welch, Ph.D, LMFT
Don Welch, Ph.D has been counseling couples, families, and individuals in various settings for approximately twenty-five years. As a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, owner and director of Family Consultation Services, Inc., ordained minister, professor, and President, Founder and CEO of Enriching Relationships, Inc. (a Biblically-based research and professional counseling seminar company), Welch frequently speaks about relationship issues at churches, conferences, retreats, and seminars throughout the United States. Welch has worked as a family therapist at Charter Behavioral Health System of Kansas City, a psychiatric hospital where substance abuse and addictions were treated utilizing Alcoholics Anonymous, 12-Step programming, medical pharmacological balancing, and mental health care. Welch frequently works directly with psychiatrists, physicians, pastors, counselors, teachers and other care-givers while treating his patients. Welch is also a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist in Kansas where he was in private practice for seven years.
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Jenet Erickson, Ph.D
Jenet Jacob Erickson teaches in the School
of Family Life at Brigham Young University. Before coming to BYU, she completed a Ph.D. in Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota, and a fellowship with The Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C. where she studied the well- being of mothers and children. Prior to her Ph.D. she received a bachelor’s degree in nursing and a master’s degree in Linguistics-TESOL. She is the fifth child in a family of 11 children. She and her husband Michael finally found one another when they were both 33 years old and were married in 2009. They feel blessed to be the parents of a two-year-old daughter, LaDawn. -
Tom Peters
Thomas Peters grew up in Southern California and attended college in Michigan. He is the founderof the popular American Papist blog which can be read at www.CatholicVote.org. He has appeared in dozens of TV, radio and online media outlets discussing current topics including the intersection of faith and conservatism, as well as pro-life and pro-family activism. Since 2007 he has worked in Washington, DC and after completing his second masters now serves as the Cultural Director at the National Organization for Marriage where he is overseeing a new project (“NOM NextGen”) to identify and encourage young activists for marriage. He travels around the country speaking to young social conservatives. You can follow him on Twitter @AmericanPapist or find him at Facebook.com/AmericanPapist.
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Stephen Baskerville
Stephen Baskerville is Professor of Government at Patrick Henry College and a Research Fellow at the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society, the Independent Institute, and the Inter-American Institute. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and has taught at Howard University, Catholic University, and Palacky University in the Czech Republic. His books include Not Peace But a Sword: The Political Theology of the English Revolution (Routledge, 1993), and Taken Into Custody: The War against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family (Cumberland House, 2007). His writings have appeared in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Independent Review, Salisbury Review, Society, The American Conservative, Chronicles, Political Science and Politics, Touchstone,Human Events, Women's Quarterly, Catholic World Report, Crisis, Insight, World Net Daily, Whistleblower, The Family in America, Family Policy Review, American Spectator, The Spectator, The American Enterprise, National Review, Liberty, the Sunday Independent, LewRockwell.com, The New Presence, MovieGuide.com, and others.
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Anthony Esolen
Tony Esolen is the Professor of English, Providence College, 1990-present. He regularly teaches courses in the Development of Western Civilization and in medieval and Renaissance English literature.
He's also been a regular contributor of articles to the following journals, in print or on the internet: Touchstone \ Crisis \ Catholic World Report \ Latin Mass \ This Rock \ The Catholic Thing \ First Things \ Front Porch Republic. His wife and he and their two children live in Coventry, Rhode Island, and worship at Sacred Heart Church, in West Warwick.
