Origins and Highlights of the Special Issue on Fathering, Faith, and Spirituality

This introduction presents the origins of the papers first presented at a symposium titled “Faithful Fathering: Spiritual Narratives and Religious Meanings” that was organized for the Annual Conference of the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) in Arlington, Virginia, in November of 1997. Next, a brief summary of the papers found in this special issue of The Journal of Men's Studies is presented.