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Kuyper Lecture Audio & Text

Michael J. Gerson delivered the 16th annual Kuyper Lecture on July 8 in Washington, DC, on the topic of "City of Man." Listen to the lecture (MP3) >> or Read the text (PDF) >>

Gerson is a nationally syndicated columnist whose op-ed pieces appear twice weekly in The Washington Post. He is the Hastert Fellow at the J. Dennis Hastert Center for Economics, Government, and Public Policy at Wheaton College in Illinois. He is also the author of Heroic Conservatism (2007) and of a forthcoming book, The City of Man.

Religious Freedom Event

Canadian think tank Cardus is sponsoring an Oct. 27 event on the future of institutional religious freedom in North America, with a keynote by Stanley Carlson-Thies, president of the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance. Stanley was formerly Director of Social Policy Studies at the Center for Public Justice.

IRFA on PBS

The PBS show Ethics & Religion Newsweekly aired a story in May titled "Should a federally funded faith-based group hire on the basis of religion?" Former CPJ staffer Stanley Carlson-Thies, now executive director of IRFA, was interviewed. View or read the story online >>

Christianity Today Q&A

Christianity Today profiles CEO Gideon Strauss in a "Who's Next" column titled "Graceful Justice." The piece touches on Strauss's service with South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as the church's role in the pursuit of justice. Read the profile >>

 

Elsewhere Online

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  • "Justice Is Not Optional" is the title of a chapel talk given by CEO Gideon Strauss at Gordon College. View it on YouTube >>