Adoption and Safe Families Act
The U.S. Adoption and Safe Families Act was passed by Congress and signed into law in 1997.
Category: Society & culture
Sam Goldstein
Sam Goldstein is a neuropsychologist on the faculty of the University of Utah and in private practice at the Neurology, Learning and Behavior Center in Salt Lake City. He is the co-author of Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope and Optimism in Your Child and the forthcoming Raising a Self-Disciplined Child: Help Your Child Become More Responsible, Confident and Resilient. […]
Jerome W. Berryman
The Rev. Jerome W. Berryman, an author and Episcopal priest, is a senior fellow with the Center for the Theology of Childhood in Houston. He has developed an internationally used approach to religious education called “Godly Play,” inspired by the Montessori approach to learning, which teaches children through parables, silence, liturgical movement and sacred stories. It’s used internationally […]
“A Leap of Faith”
Read a May 9, 2006, Washington Post story about parents who shy away from organized religion but want their children to have some introduction to it.
“Beyond Noah’s Ark”
Read a story from Christian Reflection, posted by Beliefnet.com, on the value of teaching children about faith directly from the Bible.
“Church’s anti-gay policies called ‘sinful’”
A May 9, 2008, United Methodist Reporter story about the demonstration that followed the General Conference’s decision to uphold the position that homosexual activity and Christian teaching are incompatible.
“Vatican admits it doesn’t fully understand youth culture”
Read a Jan. 31, 2013 Religious News Service article about the Vatican culture ministry’s fear that the younger generations are not fully understood by the Catholic Church.
“Panel Study of American Religion and Ethnicity”
Sociologist Michael Emerson and a team of researchers at Rice University conducted a national study on multiracial Protestant and Catholic denominations. They found that more than 9 in 10 U.S. churches remain segregated. They analyzed 20 multiracial congregations in the U.S. and identified seven models for how those ethnically diverse congregations came to be.
Winston E. Gooden
Winston E. Gooden is the dean of the School of Psychology at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., as well as a professor in the school.