Thank you all for joining us for this event on crisis of masculinity. Why are boys falling. This panel is intended to promote inquiry and further examination of an important and often overlooked topic. What has been happening to our boys and young men in america and the world for quite some time. Each panelist will focus on disparate different aspects of this crisis. Dr. Piercey will discuss and other causes. Dr. Summers the education and education policies, and mr. Olson economic shifts and men, the workforce. It is our hope that this panel will mark the beginning not the end of a conversation. Panelists may disagree one another and even heritage policies, but we are going to forge ahead as this is a crisis in need of attention and solutions. We are fortunate today to have a stellar of panelists to help guide us. First is dr. Nancy pearcey. Nancy is bestselling author and speaker, a former agnostic. She was hailed in the economist as americas preeminent evangelical protestant female i
This panel is intended to promote inquiry and further examination of an important and often overlooked topic. What has been happening to our boys and young men in america and the world for quite some time. Each panelist will focus on disparate different aspects of this crisis. Dr. Piercey will discuss and other causes. Dr. Summers the education and education policies, and mr. Olson economic shifts and men, the workforce. It is our hope that this panel will mark the beginning not the end of a conversation. Panelists may disagree one another and even heritage policies, but we are going to forge ahead as this is a crisis in need of attention and solutions. We are fortunate today to have a stellar of panelists to help guide us. First is dr. Nancy pearcey. Nancy is bestselling author and speaker, a former agnostic. She was hailed in the economist as americas preeminent evangelical protestant female intellectual. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Washington Times first things
This event on crisis of masculinity. Why are boys falling. This panel is intended to promote inquiry and further examination of an important and often overlooked topic. What has been happening to our boys and young men in america and the world for quite some time. Each panelist will focus on disparate different aspects of this crisis. Dr. Piercey will discuss and other causes. Dr. Summers the education and education policies, and mr. Olson economic shifts and men, the workforce. It is our hope that this panel will mark the beginning not the end of a conversation. Panelists may disagree one another and even heritage policies, but we are going to forge ahead as this is a crisis in need of attention and solutions. We are fortunate today to have a stellar of panelists to help guide us. First is dr. Nancy pearcey. Nancy is bestselling author and speaker, a former agnostic. She was hailed in the economist as americas preeminent evangelical protestant female intellectual. Her work has appeare
I am the director of museum education. We are delighted you have joined us today for our Speaker Series program, the bible and americas founders. We have three sessions that will be followed by a roundtable discussion this afternoon. We will have a book signing with our speakers. At museum of the bible, our mission is to engage people with the bible. It has many powerful impacts on world culture. It has influenced nations. It has guided debate and shaped pivotal events and inspired views of prominent individuals. The bible is hidden in plain sight. From common expressions that we all use to the music, the arts, and literature. We will explore themes of expand on how the colonies as they moved toward revolution and the founding of our nation, our founders turned to the bible as a source of justification for their political actions. We have three prominent scholars with us today. They will talk to us about how the bible influence the founding generation. Our first session is Ben Franklin
Think americas most common code of spirituality. And for franklin when you go back to the 18th century, doctrineless moralized christianity was serious intellectual business. It was very serious. Born out of contemporary religious debates and dissatisfaction with his familys puritanism, like many skeptics in the 18th century, franklin was weary of 300 years of fighting over the legacy of the ref reformation. Franklin grew up in a world of intractable conflict between catholics and protestants. But also within and between protestant denominations themselves. What good was christianity, he wondered, if it precipitated pettiness, persecution and violence. Unlike some selfhelp celebrities today, franklin and his cohort of european and american deists reckoned in promoting a ethicsfocused christianity, they were redeeming christianity itself. How successful that redemptive effort was, you all are going to have to decide for yourselves. Could you really have a nonexclusive doctrinely minimal