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  THE DEEPER MEANING OF INDEPENDENCE DAY
  Standing Tall
 

Commencement Commentary by John A  Howard PhD

   
 

The Family:  America's Hope  by John A Howard PhD -presented to the James Madison Center Symposium at Princeton University October, 9 2002

   
 

 

 

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California is developing as the site for a perfect judicial and political storm, one threatening both parental rights and educational choice.  [Continued...]

The Howard Center seeks applications for the position of Managing Director of its World Congress of Families project.  The job description can be accessed by clicking [here].  This position requires a person with high energy, flexible skills, development and/or promotional experience, and a readiness to travel.  A bachelor’s degree is needed; graduate training in a relevant discipline would be a plus.  Most importantly, this person should be fully committed to and able to promote the natural family as a global ideal.  Those interested should send a letter of inquiry and resume either electronically to acarlson@profam.org  or via regular mail to:

  Dr. Allan Carlson, International Secretary
  World Congress of Families
  c/o The Howard Center
  934 N. Main Street Rockford, IL 61103

Among the important stories and features in the May issue are:

The World Congress of Families Leadership Petition in Support of Romania’s Defense of Marriage is presented to legislative leaders in Bucharest.

• Thousands of Norwegians rally in the streets of Oslo in defense of marriage.

• In California, 1.1 million signatures collected on petitions for a marriage amendment.

• There’s a new edition of Allan Carlson’s “Conjugal America” – which refutes the myth that marriage concerns only the needs and desires to two individuals.

Also in the May WCF News:

• Larry Jacobs trains over 1,200 pro-family activists in Bolivia.

• WCF mourns the passing of Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family.

• We welcome American Family Association and Alliance for the Family as WCF Partners.

• Breakdown of marriage costs U.S. taxpayers $112 Billion a year.

• Profiles of Fr. Maxim Obukhov of Russia’s Zhizn (Life) Center and Miguel Moreno of The Leadership Institute.

• Excerpts from the WCF IV speech of Robert Knight (“How Pornography Undermines The Family”).

Liberty Revisited

By John A. Howard, Ph.D.

A little story will be a helpful lead-in to this theme.  It’s about a medieval knight.  Late one afternoon, he was returning to the castle, and he was a pitiful sight to see.  His horse was limping and he was skewgee in the saddle.  His armor was dented, his lance was broken and the proud plume on his helmet was crumpled and hung down over his face.  The Lord of the castle saw him coming and rushed out to meet him.  “What terrible thing has befallen you, Sir Percy?” he asked.

“Oh, sire,” he said, “I have been laboring all day in your service, robbing and pillaging your enemies to the West.

“You’ve been doing what!!” exclaimed the nobleman.

Thinking he was hard of hearing, the knight replied, much louder, “I have been robbing and pillaging your enemies to the West.”       [Continued...] 

Vidiots

Fact: Shooting Holes in GPA

Quote: Video Games Getting Worse

Abstract: Trashed by the Friends Generation

Not Safe, Nor Private, Nor Free

By Allan C. Carlson, Ph.D.

A modest political-cultural tragedy occurred this past summer, without attracting much attention among the usual pundits.  This was the announcement that Weekly World News would cease print publication.     [Continued...]

Are We Ignoring Young Men?

Welfare States Weaken Work Norms

Lethal Combination

Marriage vs. the Marlboro Man

Dubious Fun With Sinners

Fat Chance

Fatherless Childhoods, Early Deaths

Casual Sex Not So Casual

Singe Parenthood and Urban Poverty

Bart Ehrman, the Gospel of Judas, and the Revolution That Was Not, or Why the Headlines of Last Spring Have All Faded Away

Judas Meets the Press

From Faith to Doubt, and Then Back to Faith

Ehrman’s Quest

Judas in the Gospel of Judas

The Truth About the Gospel of Judas

Conclusion

Database Search

INTRODUCING
WCF "PARTNERS"

 

 Featured Events 2008...

January Life Breakfast
18 Jan 7:30 to 8:45 AM
Keynote Speaker
 Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse

 

 

THE NATURAL FAMILY:
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The Family in America Searching for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age Wage

The American Way

by Allan C. Carlson PhD

 What the Critics say...

The Swedish Experiment in Family Politics
by Allan C. Carlson PhD

The New Agrarian Mind

by Allan C. Carlson PhD

The American Catholic Voter by
 George J. Marlin

The
Family Wage

 

by Allan C. Carlson PhD

Family Questions
 

by Allan C. Carlson PhD

 

 

 

 

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