After a contentious election, what is the future of Colorado? Join us for an evening with Colorado's top conservative leaders as we explore the impact of the election, candidates, ballot initiatives, and what this all means for the future of Colorado. Speakers: John Andrews, former...
You're invited to join the President of Colorado Christian University (CCU) for a reception on Wednesday, November 28, 2018, at 5:00 pm at The Heritage Foundation. CCU President Dr. Donald Sweeting will provide his annual Washington, D.C. lecture, highlighting developments in higher education as well...
Should America expand paid maternity leave? How do you balance the needs of parents, children, and small business owners? Should the state of Colorado provide free preschool and kindergarten? Are there free-market-based policies that can serve parents, children, and business owners? What are other options...
Government-run education in Colorado is facing serious challenges. A record number of Colorado families are choosing homeschool or charter schools. According to U.S. News and World Report, four out of the top five performing high schools in Colorado are charter schools. Senator Ben Sasse criticized...
Dr. Charles Murray has his finger on the pulse of American culture. He argues that what divides America is not race or party but economic class and virtue. Murray will be speaking about his book Coming Apart, what fellow scholar Brad Wilcox called a “sobering portrait...
Benjamin Franklin tells us in his Autobiography that he became a “deist” as a young man. Yet at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Franklin proposed that delegates open sessions with prayer. In this lecture, Dr. Thomas S. Kidd will explore the enigma of Franklin’s faith,...
When it comes to family life, men, women, and children in educated and affluent communities are thriving: they enjoy strong and stable families, low rates of divorce and nonmarital childbearing, and comparatively high rates of marital quality. By contrast, working-class and poor families are floundering:...
Over the last 30 years, western civilization has become synonymous, in many quarters, with racism, sexism, darkness, and oppression. In this talk, Dr. Bradley Birzer takes down these myths, noting that the West has traditionally embraced human dignity through voluntary sacrifice. He traces the West...
One of America's foremost scholars of religion examines the tumultuous era that gave birth to the modern Judeo-Christian tradition. In Crucible of Faith, Philip Jenkins argues that much of the Judeo-Christian tradition we know today was born between 250-50 BCE, during a turbulent "Crucible Era." It...
The recent school shootings demand security improvements to protect our children. Join experts from multiple fields to go beyond the rhetoric in implementing security improvements. Learn what schools and communities can do today to protect their children. Effective School Safety: Beyond the Rhetoric Monday, November...
