David Clairmont is an assistant professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. He was a staff member of the Religion, Culture and Family Project at the University of Chicago.
Lisa Sowle Cahill has given a well-reasoned face to a position within the American family debate which has been difficult to describe and even more difficult to promote. The tug-of-war under way between rival claimants to the words "family" and "Christian" makes the voice of a thoughtful centrist difficult to notice.