The Power of Marriage: Combatting the Great Lies of Our Secular Age and Recovering the Key to Human Flourishing — A Conversation with Professor Brad Wilcox

Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This is Thinking in Public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them.
In this edition of the popular podcast series “Thinking in Public,” Albert Mohler speaks with Professor of Sociology and Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, Brad Wilcox. They discuss his new book, “Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization.”
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0:00.0	This is Thinking in Public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about
0:06.6	frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them.
0:10.3	I'm Albert Mowel, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
0:16.0	Brad Wilcox is professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
0:22.0	He holds the MA and PhD, both in sociology
0:24.9	from Princeton University.
0:26.6	He is the author or co-author of many books
0:29.0	and has written for journals such as the American
0:31.0	Sociological Review and the Journal of Marriage and Family.
0:34.4	But he's also written for major media such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal,
0:38.4	The Atlantic and National Review.
0:40.4	It is his most recent book, Get Married, Why Americans Must Defy the Elites,
0:44.4	Ford Strong Families, and Save Civilization.
0:47.4	That book's the topic of our conversation today.
0:50.4	Professor Wilcox, welcome to Thinking in Public.
0:53.0	It's great to be here, Dr. Waller.
0:55.0	Look, I love your new book and proud to have a blurb on the back of it, by the way.
1:01.0	And I really admire the way you're making these arguments
1:04.8	in the public square.
1:06.3	But I want to step back for a moment and just ask you
1:09.2	why this book at this time and how in the world
1:11.5	did you get here in the year 2024?
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