Frederic Luskin is a senior consultant in health promotion at Stanford University, where he teaches classes on spirituality and health and positive psychology. He serves as director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects and was co-director of the Stanford-Northern Ireland HOPE Projects, which explored the effectiveness of his forgiveness methods on victims of political violence. He gives […]

A May 31, 2011, story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about splits in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America after its 2009 decision to allow some openly gay clergy. According to the story, the ELCA says that 444 parishes voted to leave after the decision but that the ELCA has also started more than 300 new churches.

Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has a column on the Presbyterian Church USA decision.

The Rev. Janet Edwards, a Presbyterian minister who underwent a church trial for conducting a marriage ceremony for two women, has a Huffington Post column on the gay ordination policy.

An essay in Christianity Today by S. Donald Fortson III, professor of church history and practical theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, N.C., looking at the long history of this issue in Christianity.

Read the May 11, 2011, Presbyterian News Service story on the vote and its implications.

A story in the July 2011 issue of Christianity Today.

The Home School Legal Defense Association is a conservative Christian political and legal advocacy group. Many child custody disputes with a religious aspect center on home schooling issues.

The American Bar Association’s Center on Children and the Law has a list of staff experts.