Donna M. Hughes is a professor at the University of Rhode Island, where she holds the Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair in the women’s studies program. She has expertise in violence, slavery and sexual exploitation. She focuses on domestic sex trafficking in the U.S., anti-trafficking policy and prostitution and teaches courses on sex […]

Bernard K. Freamon is a law professor at Seton Hall University in Newark, N.J., where his teaching load includes courses on Islamic jurisprudence; law in the modern Middle East; and slavery, human trafficking and the law.

Barrett Duke is vice president for public policy and research and director of the Research Institute of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. He has authored a number of books and articles.

Margaret A. Farley is the Gilbert L. Stark professor emerita of Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Conn. She is Catholic and has written widely about Christian sexual ethics.

Transcript of a Nov. 14, 2003, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly program on immigration.

Reports on a research study that showed that abstinence-only sex education had no impact on the sexual behavior of Texas public school students.

In January 2006, Journal of Adolescent Health published a review of U.S. sex education policies and programs, concluding that the government’s push for abstinence-only education is “morally problematic” and threatens teens’ human rights to “health, education and life.”

An independent journal from a more conservative viewpoint.

Our Sunday Visitor is a popular Catholic news weekly viewed as conservative.