Sources and Companions · Among Family

Among Family quotes Scripture from the NET Bible, and every quotation was checked against the NET text. It quotes the church's historic writers and confessions briefly, from the translations named below, and it reports research from the organizations named below.

The church's writers, confessions and law (Chapters Two and Four). Cyprian, On the Unity of the Church, sections 5–7 (Ante-Nicene Fathers vol. 5, trans. Robert Ernest Wallis). Augustine, On Christian Doctrine III.32 (trans. J. F. Shaw). Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 133, 816–819, 846–847, 1253–1254 and 2089. The Westminster Larger Catechism, Question 167. The Baptist Faith and Message (2000), Article VII. The Schleitheim Confession (1527), Article I. Code of Canon Law, canon 1248. Second Vatican Council, Dei Verbum 25. Pope Francis, Aperuit illis (2019). United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, "Questions about the Scriptures used during Mass." Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, "Reading the Bible as a Family." United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People (2002). Pope Francis, Vos estis lux mundi (2019; revised 2023). The Orthodox Church in America, The Orthodox Faith, vol. I, "Church." The Augsburg Confession, Articles VII–VIII (Concordia translation). John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion IV.1–2 (trans. Henry Beveridge). The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, Article XIX. The Westminster Confession of Faith 25.5. John Wesley, Sermon 75, "On Schism." The Baptist Faith and Message (2000), Article VI. The Second London Baptist Confession (1689), 26.3 and 26.12–13. The Schleitheim Confession (1527), Article II. The Assemblies of God Statement of Fundamental Truths, article 10 (as printed in the 2021 Constitution and Bylaws). Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together (trans. John W. Doberstein).

Research (Chapter Two and What Has Been Counted). Pew Research Center, "Choosing a New Church or House of Worship" (2016). Pew Research Center, "Why Do Some Americans Leave Their Religion While Others Stay?" (2025). Lifeway Research, "Church Switchers Highlight Reasons for Congregational Change" (2023). Lifeway Research, "Most Teenagers Drop Out of Church When They Become Young Adults" (2019). Barna Group, "Five Trends Defining Americans' Relationship to Churches" (2020). Pew Research Center, "What Americans Know About Religion" (2019); "Just one-third of U.S. Catholics agree with their church that Eucharist is body, blood of Christ" (2019); Religious Landscape Study (2014); "U.S. Protestants are not defined by Reformation-era controversies 500 years later" (2017); "Faith in Flux" (2009, rev. 2011). CARA and the McGrath Institute, "Eucharist Beliefs: A National Survey of Adult Catholics" (2023). Ligonier Ministries and Lifeway Research, "State of Theology" (2025). Pew Research Center, Religious Landscape Study (2023–24) and "Tradition and Change Among Latter-day Saints in the U.S." (2026). Saint Mary's Press and CARA, Going, Going, Gone (2018; as reported in the publisher's press release). Barna Group, "Six Reasons Young Christians Leave Church" (2011), "Resilient Disciples" (2019) and "Ex-Christians Aren't the Only Ones Deconstructing Faith" (2024). Christian Smith and Amy Adamczyk, Handing Down the Faith (Oxford, 2021; as excerpted and in interview). Vern L. Bengtson, Families and Faith (Oxford, 2013; as quoted in a review). Koch, Herm and Rhodes, "Religious Bestowment," Journal of Sociology and Christianity 8:2 (2018). Jim Davis and Michael Graham with Ryan P. Burge, The Great Dechurching (Zondervan, 2023; as reported by the publisher and reviewers). Lisa Oakley, "Understanding spiritual abuse," Church Times (2018).

Help lines (Chapter Two). 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline; National Domestic Violence Hotline; RAINN; Childhelp; GRACE. Checked on their own websites October 29, 2026.

Companions on this site. What Isn't in Your Bible and Why; The Upper Room; What You Carry; The Anchor Below the Storm; The Vine Is the Path; and the Denominational Mapping Instrument, with its visit questions.

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