"Centering the Family" will be the topic of the Women's Research Institute's Women's Studies Lecture at Brigham Young University Thursday, Nov. 6, at noon in 680 Kimball Tower.
In his lecture, Brent D. Slife, a BYU professor of psychology, will focus on four moral orientations families use."People will be surprised that a lot of their own moral systems come from non-religious sources," Slife said. "They may be surprised how provocative a truly Christian system is."
Slife will talk about four orientations - three of which are secular and one that is based on Christian values - and compare the secular with the Christian-based orientation.
The Christian value system, he said, is actually the least popular of the four.
"People put their own moral values into secular ways of doing things and then think the process comes from a religious source," Slife said.