Publications & Lectures

Recent Publications

Building Cultures of Trust

September 11 and conspiratorial thinking, the economic crisis, banks and lenders, mistrust of government as a rescue agency, mortgage-lending to foreclosures,... more

Called to Happiness: Where Faith and Psychology Meet

This account of "the new science of happiness" not only supports traditional faith but gives examples that we can use to live a fulfilling life. It... more

View all Publications

CSLR Publications

Current Query:

Lectures and Essays

Search by keyword, author/editor, title, project or topic

Showing 1-20 of 166
Title Author, Editor, or Contributor Research Project Events
"Adoption: Legal, Theological, and Ethical Challenges," March 29, 2003 John C. Mayoue, Warner, Mayoue, Bates, Nolen & Collar, P.C.; Stephen G. Post, Case Western Reserve University; Stephen B. Presser, Northwestern University; Ann M. Stanton, Arizona State University
"Affirmative Action: Did the Supreme Court Save It?," April 11, 2005 Earl Lewis, Emory University Provost, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies
PDF link "Against Utopian Legalism," October 25, 2007 Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago
    "American Perspectives," October 21, 2005 Martin Guggenheim, Professor, New York University School of Law
    "An Apt and Cheerful Conversation on Marriage," February 7, 2001 John Witte, Jr.
    "Authorizing Marriage? Canon, Tradition, and Critique in the Blessing of Same-sex Unions," March 29, 2003 Mark D. Jordan, Dale Martin, Yale University; Saul Olyan, Brown University; Mary Ann Tolbert, Pacific School of Religion
    "Baltimore City Land Bank: Laying the Foundations," July 22-23, 2008 Frank S. Alexander
    "The Bioethical Future: Some Jewish Thoughts on Reproductive Ethics," September 13, 2011 Michael J. Broyde
      "Calvin the Lawyer," July 6, 2009 John Witte, Jr.
        "Can and Should Religion Play a Role in the Struggle for Human Rights?," October 26, 2007 Nicholas P. Wolterstorff
          "Can There be Solutions to the Agunah Problem?," Summer 2005 Michael J. Broyde
          PDF link "Can We Imagine a Global Civil Religion?," October 26, 2007 Robert N. Bellah, Elliott Professor of Sociology Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley
            "The Catholic Church and the Death Penalty," October 8, 2008 Wilton D. Gregory, Archbishop of Atlanta
            PDF link "Challenges of Adolescence and Violence," March 23, 2005 Peter Ash, Robyn L. Fivush
            PDF link "The Challenges of Christian Jurisprudence," March 8-9, 2005 John Witte, Jr.
            "Children: Will We Ever Get it Right?," October 27, 2004 Martin E. Marty, William H. Foege, Presidential Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Emory University and fellow and advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
            "Children, Youth and Spirituality in Troubling Times," May 18, 2006 Susanne Johnson, Southern Methodist University; Jennie Knight, Emory University; Joyce Mercer, San Francisco Theological Seminary; Evelyn Parker, Southern Methodist University; Luther Smith, Emory University; Karen-Marie Yust, Union Theological Seminary
            "Children's Beliefs and Family Law," October 25, 2007 Margaret F. Brinig, Fritz Duda Family Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
            "Comparative and International Perspectives," October 21, 2005 Martha Albertson Fineman
            "Conference Opening: Happily Ever After?," March 27, 2003 John Witte, Jr.
            Showing 1-20 of 166