Read a Dec. 29, 2009, article from the Orlando Sentinel about Rifqa Bary, a girl caught in the middle of her parents’ custody battle. A judge ultimately ruled that Bary could stay in foster care until she turned 18 or reconcile with her family on her own terms.

A Chicago couple, Joseph and Rebecca Reyes, are involved in a bitter custody case that centers on a court order barring the father from exposing their daughter to non-Jewish religions. The mother is Jewish, he is Catholic, and he had the girl baptized after the couple split. On Jan. 17, 2010, Joseph Reyes took his […]

John C. Blakeman is associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. His publications include “The Religious Geography of Religious Expression: Local Governments, Courts and the First Amendment,” published in 2006 in the Journal of Church and State.

William G. Ross is a law professor at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. He has written on religion, law and education. He is an expert of judicial ethics, and his work on judicial ethics has been sighted in several federal court decisions.

W. George Scarlett is assistant professor of child development at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. He was an editor of the Encyclopedia of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence.

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).

Read a Jan. 28, 2013, commentary from The Washington Post about the positive contributions of faith-based initiatives.