The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) is a national voice for American Indian children and families. They are a comprehensive source of information on American Indian child welfare and the only national American Indian organization focused specifically on the tribal capacity to prevent child abuse and neglect. Sarah Kastelic is the executive director.

Article posted on the Adoption History Project site about federal efforts to place American Indian children in non-Indian homes.

January 2007 paper written by Mary Eschelbach Hansen and Daniel Pollack of American University that concludes that Black children spend more time as legal orphans than children of other races and that transracial placement speeds their adoptions.

Ruth Nemzoff is a resident scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center. She was formerly New Hampshire’s deputy commissioner of health and welfare and the former assistant minority leader of the New Hampshire legislature.

John G. Stackhouse Jr. is professor of theology and culture at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada, and the author of Can God Be Trusted?: Faith and the Challenge of Evil. His essay “Billy Graham and the Nature of Conversion: A Paradigm Case” is included in his book Evangelical Landscapes: Facing Critical Issues of the Day.

Michael C. Rea is a philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame and director of its Center for Philosophy of Religion. He co-directs “The Problem of Evil in Modern and Contemporary Thought,” a four-year research initiative at the university, and is co-editor of a book of essays titled Divine Evil?: The Moral Character of the God of Abraham (2011).

Samuel Newlands is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and co-director of a four-year research initiative there titled “The Problem of Evil in Modern and Contemporary Thought.” He teaches a graduate-level seminar at Notre Dame on evil and previously taught a class at Yale University on free will, God and evil..

Terry Eagleton, a noted British scholar and cultural theorist, is currently distinguished professor of english literature at Lancaster University. His books include On Evil (2010), which examines ideas about evil through the lenses of literature, religion and psychoanalysis.

18Doors.com (formerly InterfaithFamily.com) is a resource supporting interfaith couples exploring Jewish life and inclusive Jewish communities. It offers educational content; connections to welcoming organizations, professionals and programs; and resources and trainings for organizations, clergy and other program providers.