Jason S. Carroll is an associate professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Carroll is a nationally-recognized researcher and educator in the areas of marital intimacy, marriage readiness among young adults, the effectiveness of marriage education, and modern threats to marriage (such as pornography, delayed age at marriage, materialism, and premarital sexuality). Dr. Carroll’s work has been featured in the Economist, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Psychology Today Magazine, National Public Radio, GQ Magazine, Elle Magazine, Focus on the Family, and other popular media and news outlets. Read more
Dawn Eden was born to a Jewish family in New York City. She started her career as a rock music journalist and worked for the New York Post and the Daily News. She underwent a dramatic conversion to Christianity at age 31, which eventually led her to enter the Catholic Church. With her new faith came a change in lifestyle as she discovered the truth and beauty of Christian teachings on chastity. That led to the publication of her first book, describing her personal transformation in hope of helping others make positive changes in their own lives: The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On. Now in its ninth printing, The Thrill has also been published in Spanish, Polish, and Chinese. Dawn has discussed it on NBC’s Today Show and EWTN’s Life on the Rock. Read more
Patrick F. Fagan is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Research on Marriage and Religion at the Family Research Council, where he examines the relationships among family, marriage, religion, community, and America’s social problems as illustrated in the social sciences research data. The Center has a particular emphasis on the relationship between marital stability coupled with the practice of religion and their joint impacts on such issues as happiness, health, mental health and general well being, income and savings, educational attainment and family stability as well as such negative outcomes as poverty, crime, abuse, and drug addiction. Read more
Donna Freitas is a Visiting Associate Professor of Religion in the Honors College at Hofstra University in New York. Since 2005, her research has centered on the attitudes of college students about sex and faith and how these interact (or don’t) with respect to sexual decision-making on campus. Dr. Freitas conducted a major, nationwide study at Catholic, evangelical, private-secular, and public universities and colleges to investigate this subject, which led her into the terrain of student dissatisfaction and overall unhappiness with hookup culture on campuses everywhere. Read more
Maggie Gallagher is President of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, a nationally syndicated columnist, the author of three books on marriage (including most recently with University of Chicago Prof Linda Waite The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better-Off Financially), and a leading voice of the new marriage movement. National Journal named her to the 2004 list of the most influential people in the same-sex marriage debate. She has served as President of the National Organization for Marriage. Read more
Sherif Girgis was born in Cairo and grew up in Delaware. He majored in philosophy at Princeton. His senior thesis on sex ethics won the Princeton prizes for best thesis in ethics and best thesis in philosophy. Upon graduating Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude in 2008, he went on to earn a master’s degree in moral, political and legal philosophy at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He is now pursing his Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton and his JD at Yale Law School. His paper “What Is Marriage?”, coauthored with Robert George and Ryan Anderson, was published in December and quickly became the Social Science Research Network’s most downloaded paper of the previous year. Read more
Miriam Grossman MD is a practicing physician, author, public speaker, and media commentator. She is known internationally for her courage in breaking ranks and calling foul on the Sexuality Education industry. She has been on over 200 radio, news, and television shows. She has lectured at the British House of Lords and the United Nations Council on the Status of Women. Read more
Donald Hilton, M.D. speaks nationally and internationally in the field of minimally invasive spinal surgery, and has published book chapters, peer-reviewed journal papers, and developed techniques widely used in this subspecialty. He is currently listed in Best Doctors in America, and as a Texas Super Doctor and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Hilton also publishes and speaks on the subject of pornography and sexual addiction. He and his wife received the “Guardian of the Light” award from the anti-pornography organization Lighted Candle Society in 2008, where Dr. Hilton gave the keynote address, “Pornography and the Brain: Understanding the Addiction.” He authored the book He Restoreth My Soul, which explores the effects of pornography on the brain, along with spiritual paradigms of healing. Read more
Steven Rhoads has taught public policy in the politics department at the University of Virginia for over thirty five years. He received his A.B. degree cum laude from Princeton University in 1961 and an MPA degree cum laude from Cornell University in 1965. He received the Ph.D. from Cornell with a concentration in American government and political theory in 1972. He is the recipient of Bradley, Earhart, Olin, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Sloan Foundation fellowships. Read more
Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. is the founder and President of the Ruth Institute, a non-profit educational institute promoting lifelong married love to the young by creating an intellectual and social climate favorable to marriage. 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. Read more
Christopher Tollefsen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He specializes in moral philosophy and practical ethics. He is co-author, with Robert P. George, of Embryo: A Defense of Human Life and is the author of a number of papers on beginning and end of life issues. He is a fellow of the James Madison Society, a Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute, and a frequent contributor to Public Discourse. He and his wife have nine children. Read more
John Van Epp, therapist, former adjunct professor, author and lecturer, is the President and Founder of LoveThinks, LCC. His book, How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk, published by McGraw-Hill, blends in-depth research with humorous stories to provide a map for making healthy relationship choices. His book and relationship courses have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Psychology Today, O Magazine, and Cosmopolitan; he has appeared on the CBS Early Show, the O’Reilly Factor, Fox News, and Focus on the Family. He has been happily married for over thirty years and is the proud father of two daughters. Read more