Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. is dedicated to the study and research on race and ethnicity across all the disciplines and national boundaries. The organization is divided into two interdisciplinary undergraduate programs and a research institute.

Fumitaka Matsuoka is Robert Gordon Sproul Professor of Theology of Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Calif., where he is executive director of the Institute for Leadership Development and Study of Pacific and Asian North American Religion. He is an ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren. He co-edited Realizing the America of Our Hearts: Theological Voices of […]

Elaine Enns has been a trainer and consultant on restorative justice for almost two decades. She is part of Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries in Oak View, Calif.

John Bloom is a physics professor at Biola University, a Christian school in La Mirada, Calif. He founded the school’s master’s degree program in science and religion, and he teaches a course in intelligent design that asks the question, “Why isn’t the evidence clearer?”

Nov. 15, 2011, Los Angeles Times article about Catholic Charities ending their adoption services in Illinois due to in inability to continue legal battles over refusing to work with gay and straight unmarried couples.

The Evolution Education Research Center strives to advance the teaching and learning of biological evolution through research. It has branches at Harvard University in Massachusetts; Chapman University in Orange, Calif.; and McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The center’s researchers have studied the intersection of science education and religion in both Christian and Muslim societies. Science education professor Brian […]

June 18, 2013, Los Angeles Times article about Russia’s parliament voting to approve a law that bans the adoption of Russian orphans by foreign same-sex married couples or by single persons from countries where same-sex marriages are allowed.

A March 2004 paper by the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California which details the history of faith groups’ involvement in adoption.

Lee M. Williams is professor of marital and family therapy in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences at the University of San Diego. He is the author of several articles on interchurch couples, including “Premarital Counseling With Interchurch Couples: Clinical Implications From Recent Research,” published in 2002 in the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy.