The United Methodist Church has an official statement on criminal justice and restorative justice in its Social Principles and a statement on gun violence in the Book of Resolutions.

The Catholic bishops have cited the need for reducing gun violence a number of times. In November 1994 U.S. bishops released a pastoral letter, “Confronting a Culture of Violence: A Catholic Framework for Action,” which addressed gun violence. In November 2000 the bishops adopted a statement, titled “Responsibility, Rehabilitation and Restoration: A Catholic Perspective on Crime and Criminal […]

The National Council of Churches has long advocated a reduction in gun violence through gun control. Read a March 15, 2000, statement, “Interfaith Call to End Gun Violence.”

Ellen Marrus is co-director of the Center for Children, Law & Policy at the University of Houston Law Center.

Ronald William Nelson is a Kansas family lawyer who is chairman of the custody committee of the American Bar Association’s family law section.

Lynne Marie Kohm is John Brown McCarty Professor of Family Law at Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Va. Kohm describes herself as “dedicated to family restoration through the application of Christian legal principles.” She also has a blog called Family Restoration.

Patrick M. Garry is director of the Center for Empirical Legal Research at the University of South Dakota’s School of Law in Vermillion, S.D. His publications include Wrestling With God: The Courts’ Tortuous Treatment of Religion (2007).

Rabbi Michael Namath is program director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. The Religious Action Center is the Washington, D.C., office of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, a joint office of the Union for Reform Judaism (representing 900 congregations with 1.5 million Reform Jews) and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, whose […]

Stephen Copley is chair of the board of the Let Justice Roll Campaign, a coalition of 90 faith, community, labor and business organizations working to raise the minimum wage. It sponsors annual “living wage” days, which this year fell on Jan. 10-11, 2009.