[siteorigin_widget_vc so_widget_data=”{"widget_class":"SiteOrigin_Widget_Editor_Widget","widget_data":{"title":"","text":"<p><span style=\\"font-weight: 400;\\">The Child-Friendly Faith Project is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that was begun in 2012.<\\/span><\\/p>\\n<p><span style=\\"font-weight: 400;\\"><strong>Our vision is that no child suffers abuse or neglect as a result of religious belief, doctrine, or practice. <\\/strong><\\/span><\\/p>\\n<p><strong>Our mission is to share knowledge and build community… Read More
Help Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch Survivors find community and healing by funding this special event
For more than 50 years, the disadvantaged children under the care of Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch suffered severe physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. The Child-Friendly Faith Project is organizing a reunion for survivors and their loved ones so they can find community, support and healing. The reunion, which will take… Read More
ICSA Conference in Philadelphia – July 7
The Child-Friendly Faith Project’s founder and board member Janet Heimlich will be part of a panel discussion at the International Cultic Studies Association’s 2018 Conference in Philadelphia on July 7th. It will take place at 11am at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel. The topic of the talk is “Martyring Children for Faith: The… Read More
Warning to Texas Parents: This might be a really bad time to enroll your child in a faith-based private school
Will your child be attending a private, faith-based school in Texas this fall? In light of a recent decision by the Texas Supreme Court, you may want to rethink that plan. The Texas Supreme Court made a decision this past week that could adversely affect the lives of thousands of… Read More
Boys Ranch Survivors Reunion — August 31, 2018
Are you an abuse survivor of Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch? Or do you support survivors in their quest for community and healing? If so, we hope you will join us at the Boys Ranch Survivors Reunion on Aug. 31! WHY: It’s a chance for survivors to come together as a… Read More
Will Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch help those it traumatized as children?
Boys Ranch has a program that provides assistance to alumni. But it’s not working well for those who were abused while growing up there. It’s been six months since the news broke that Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch was not the place it purported itself to be. The nearly 80-year-old institution… Read More
Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch Advocacy
“A sense of safety is vital to a child’s ability to reach his or her full potential.” — Website of Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch Since 2017, the Child-Friendly Faith Project has been advocating for men who grew up at Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch from the 1960s through… Read More
Guest Blog: A physician weighs in on Iceland’s effort to protect boys from genital cutting
The oldest running parliament in the world may soon achieve a legislative first—ending circumcision of both girls and boys. A bill before the Icelandic parliament proposes to expand its law that currently protects girls from genital cutting to also protect boys, including infants. The measure states that medically unnecessary circumcision of… Read More
Janet Heimlich
Janet Heimlich is an award-winning journalist and the author of Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment, the first book to fully examine the issue of child abuse and neglect enabled by religious belief. The book has been lauded by experts in many fields. Bishop John Shelby Spong described it… Read More
Evangelicals: The single most important change for #MeToo
In the last days of 2017, riding the wave of the #MeToo movement, a group of 140 evangelical women released a petition on “Breaking the Silence on Violence against Women and Girls.” Under the hashtag #SilenceIsNotSpiritual, it invited “the community of faith” to “join this historic moment . . .… Read More