Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank.” He is a health policy expert and weekly contributor at Forbes.com. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Texas Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Dr. Matthews is a past president of the Health Economics Roundtable for the National Association for Business Economics, the largest trade association of business economists. Dr. Matthews also served for 10 years as the medical ethicist for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board for Human Experimentation, and has contributed chapters to several books, including Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate and The 21st Century Health Care Leader and, in 2009, Stop Paying the Crooks (on Medicare fraud).

He has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Barron’s, USA Today, Forbes magazine and the Washington Times. He was an award-winning political analyst for the USA Radio Network.

Dr. Matthews received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas.

Peyton Luke is a summa cum laude graduate of Oral Roberts University, where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Convergence Journalism/Broadcast. Currently, she is pursuing her Master of Jurisprudence degree at A&M School of Law while working full-time at First Liberty Institute as the Media Specialist within the Communications Department. Additionally, she is the Producer of the weekly webcast: First Liberty Live!

During her college years, she served as ORU Student Body President and interned at FOX News in New York City. Following graduation, she worked as the Administrative Liaison to ORU’s President by functioning in various capacities with presidential events, communication, and representation, while also assisting in coordinating international ministry and media. She later went on to be a church Media Director throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic — where she was on the innovative front lines during the dynamic 2020 communication and media shift within ministry and culture across the world.

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