"I am very grateful for the Ruth Institute. Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse
is a one woman dynamo with immense strength and conviction, and she's
doing a fantastic job. Her values and her message are completely
consistent with traditional Judaism."

Rabbi N. Daniel Korobkin, Author and Rabbi of Kehillat Yavneh, Los Angeles,
CA

 

"I wanted to thank you for an outstanding experience at San Marcos State. Your presentation was very well received. We heard an intelligent discussion based on concise and well reasoned points that were so precisely the core of the issue. This was not only helpful to these young men in formulating their own critical thinking on the issue, but also helpful and greatly appreciated by the two other adult leaders and myself. You are doing a great work and we applaud your efforts. "

Barry Speer, LDS Boy Scout Leader

I am thankful for organizations like the Ruth Institute and the National Organization for Marriage, and for articulate, persuasive, well-informed and kind advocates like Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Maggie Gallagher, and Professor Robbie George who stand up and speak up in defense of the marriage and the marital family and who help and inspire others to do the same."
Lynn Wardle
Bruce C. Hafen Professor of Law

I'm grateful for how the Ruth Institute has been so supportive of young adults like myself who are passionate about speaking on issues of sex, relationship and marriage by generously helping coordinate and fund events that give us an opportunity to do just that! I cannot tell you what it means to have just an amazing organization believing in and supporting me, providing the tools, education and connections I need to be effective.
Joanna Hyatt, Los Angeles

  • Doug Allen

    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, PhD

    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

    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.

  • Helen Alvare, PhD

    Helen Alvare, J.D. is Senior Fellow in Law at the Culture of Life Foundation and is an Associate Professor of Law at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia. There she teaches and publishes in the areas of property law, family law, and Catholic social thought. From 2000 to Spring 2008, Professor Alvare taught at the Catholic University Columbus School of Law. Professor Alvare also lectures widely in the United StatesEurope on matters concerning marriage, family and respect for human life. She is a consultant to ABC News and to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Marriage and Pro-Life Committees. In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI named Professor Alvare a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Laity.

  • Bill Duncan

    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.

  • Trayce Hansen, PhD

    Dr. Trayce L. Hansen is a licensed psychologist with a clinical and forensic practice. She received her Ph.D. from the California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego, in 1997. Dr. Hansen’s professional experience is varied and includes work in multiple clinical as well as forensic settings. She is particularly interested in issues related to marriage, parenting, male/female differences, and homosexuality. Dr. Hansen has extensively reviewed the research literature in these areas and occasionally writes commentaries based on her findings that have been published worldwide. She has been heard on local and national radio and interviewed by the web and print media. Dr. Hansen also consults on legal cases and has testified in both deposition and court hearings related to her professional expertise.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. Prior to coming to Saint Anselm he taught from 1989-1994 at William Jewell College in Liberty, MO. He served as Chair of the Department of Political Science and was the founding director of the Pryor Program for Leadership Studies at William Jewell College in 1993.

    From August of 2001 to October of 2011 he was the pastor of the Emmanuel Covenant Church of Nashua, NHwhere herecently stepped down as pastor. 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.