This Center defends the natural family as the source of social order and the guarantor of liberty. The Center affirms those cultural and economic patterns which sustain healthy home life while exposing contemporary threats to family integrity. 

In an age where the natural family has been attacked by certain ideologues as oppressive and antiquated and redefined by others to embrace deviant styles of life, The Family in America Studies Center proceeds from a firm definition of family. more...

This Center surveys contemporary society with a focus on the spiritual motivations and dimensions of current events. It celebrates and explains to a wider audience the deep and abiding faith that drives the thoughts and actions of millions of Americans, and identifies and analyzes those pressures which undermine such faith. The Center works to build understanding between believers from different denominations in areas such as sexual morality, bioethics, and family life, where basic agreement on behavioral norms is both possible and desirable. It also brings theological and philosophical rigor to ethical and civic debate in America, reminding citizens that theirs is a nation founded "under God," and that their liberties rest on this moral foundation. more...