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The Religion, Culture, and Family Project
Project Resources
Speakers Bureau (by name)
The Project authors below can be contacted for information on a variety of
family and religion issues within their expertise.
Robert H. Albers
Professor of Pastoral Theology
email: ralbers@luthersem.edu
Phone:(612)641-3475
- Chemical dependency
- Shame issues
- Depression
Herbert Anderson
Professor of Pastoral Theology
email: ander312@aol.com
Phone:(773)753-5327
- Pre-marital preparation
- Family living and life cycle perspectives
Marvin L. Anderson
Adjunct Professor, Emmanuel College, Toronto School of Theology
email: eafma@idirect.com
Phone:(416)461-1249
- Rural culture and congregational ministry
- Familiy ministries: i.e. fathers, persons with disabilities
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
email: artson@ni.net
Phone:(714)770-9606
- Judaism and Jewish law
- Homosexuality and Judaism
- Speaking to children about God
David L. Balch
Professor of New Testament Studies, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian
University
email: d.balch@tcu.edu
Phone:(817)257-7582
- Family in the New Testament
- Pauline sexual ethics
- Women's function in households and house churches in earliest Christianity
S. Scott Bartchy
Professor of Christian Origins and History of Religion
email: bartchy@history.ucla.edu
Phone: (310)825-4570
- Jesus and Paul and Gender Roles
- Spirituality and Sexuality in the World of the New Testament
Stephen Barton
Senior Lecturer in New Testament, University of Durham
email: s.c.barton@durham.ac.uk
- Biblical Studies
- Theology of the Family
Alice Ogden Bellis
email: aobellis@ix.netcom.com
Phone:(202)543-8023
- Feminist/womanist interpretations of the Hebrew Bible
- How to move from biblical "family values" to the contemporary family
Claudia L. Bushman
Adjunct Professor of History, Columbia University email: cmb35@columbia.edu
Phone:(202)543-8023
- Mormon family life and history
Warren Carter
Associate Professor of New Testament, Saint Paul School of Theology
email: wcarter@spst.edu
Phone:(816)483-9604
- Households and the New Testament
James L. Crenshaw
Robert L. Flowers Professor of Old Testament
Phone:(910)660-3413
- Hebrew Bible
- Wisdom and Prophetic Literature
William Johnson Everett
Herbert Gezork Professor of Christian Social Ethics, Andover Newton Theological
School
email: weverett@ants.edu
Phone: (617)964-1100, ext. 241
- Work, Family and Faith in Ecological Perspective
- Ethics of Marriage and Family
Elliot B. Gertel
Rabbi, Congregation Rodfei Zedek
Phone: (773)256-2183
- Jewish views of divorce
- Jewish image on television
Brita Gill-Anderson
Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and Practical Theology
email: bgillaus2ants.edu
- Interfaith Marriage
- Ministry to Families in Congregations; Models of Family Ministries
Paul Giblin
Associate Professor of Pastoral Counseling
email: pgibli@luc.edu
Phone:(773)508-2431
- Spirituality of marriage
- Spirituality of the family
Frank H. Gorman
T.W. Phillips Chair of Religious Studies, Bethany College
email: f.gorman@mail.bethany.wrnet.edu
Phone:(304)829-7718
- Hebrew Bible
- Ritual studies
- Bible and cultural studies
Joann Heaney-Hunter
Associate Professor of Theology, St. John's University, New York
email: gshunter@ix.netcom.com
Phone:(718)990-5428
- Marriage Preparation
- Catholic marriage and family spirituality
- Catholic marriage
James Lapsey
Professor of Pastoral Theology (ret.), Princeton Theological Seminary
email: lapsey@interacs.com
Phone: (602) 972-1177
- Families in retirement communities
Bill Leonard
Dean, Wake Forest University Divinity School
email: mglaw@leonabj@wfu.edu
- Baptist history
- American religion, especially Southern religion
Rev. Dr. Eileen W. Lindner
Associate General Secretary, National Council of Churches
Editor, Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches
Phone: (212)870-2333
- Research in Child Care
- Family Matters as a Battleground
- Public Polic and the Family
Lois Gehr Livezey
Professor of Christian Ethics
email: llivezey@mccormick.edu
Phone:(773)947-6331
- Sexual and domestic violence
- Congergational studies of family ministries
Bonnie Miller-McLemore
Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Counseling, Vanderbilt Divinity School.
email: millerbj@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
phone: (615)322-2776
- Christian feminism
- Dilemmas of work and family
- Mothering
- Children
- Therapy, education, and family dynamics
Margaret M. Mitchell
Associate Professor of New Testament, McCormick Theological Seminary
Phone: (773)947-6430
E-mail: mmitchell@mccormick.edu
- New Testament and Early Christianity, especially Pauline texts on the family
Rev. Gail E. Murphy-Geiss
Phone: (212)870-2333
E-mail: gmurphygei@aol.com
- United Methodism, Family, and Gender
Carolyn Osiek
Professor of New Testament, Catholic Theological Union
Phone:(773)753-5351
E-mail: losiek@ctu.edu
- New Testament
- Early church social history
Rob Palkovitz
Associate Professor of Individual and Family Studies
email: robp@udel.edu
Phone: (302)831-8559
- Effects of Fathering on Men's Faith, Morals and Values
- Effects of Fathering on Men's Adult Development
David Popenoe
Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
email: dpopenoe@aol.com
Phone:(609)921-8343
Stephen Post
Professor of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
email: sgp2@po.cwru.edu
Phone:(216)368-6205
- Bioethics and the family
- Theology and the family
- Alzheimer's disease and family caregivers
Barbara E. Reid, O.P.
Professor of New Testament, Catholic Theological Union
email: breid@ctu.edu
- Reconciliation, feminism, parables and the New Testament
- Women in the Gospel of Luke
William D. Romanowski
Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences
email: romw@calvin.edu
- American popular culture
- Entertainment media
- Youth culture
- Religion and popular art
Archie Smith, Jr.
The James and Clarice Foster Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Counseling,
Pacific School of Religion.
email: asmith@psr.edu
phone: 510-849-8213
- African-American Families and Spirituality
- Black Church Culture
- Systematic Family Theory and Therapy
Max L. Stackhouse
Professor of Christian Ethics; Chair, Religion and Society Division, Princeton
Theological Seminary
email: max.stackhouse@ptsem.edu
phone:(609)497-7898
- Economic Life and Families in Society
- Ethical debates about sexuality in church and political policies
Theodore (Ted) Stoneberg
Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling
email: tas@anderson.edu
phone:(765)641-4528
- Men's issues, especially fathering concern
- Grief and bereavement
- Marriage and family issues
John Witte, Jr.
Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Director of Law and Religion Program,
Emory University
email: jwitte@law.emory.edu
Phone:(404)727-6980
- Legal history
- Law, religion, and family
Anita Worthen
Phone:(415)453-6475
- Counsel to homosexual persons
- Counsel to family members of gay and lesbian persons
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