Carrie A. Miles
CARRIE A. MILES, a frequent speaker at Sunstone symposia, is the author of The Redemption of Love: Rescuing Marriage and Family from the Economics of a Fallen World (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos Press, 2006) and coauthor with Laurence R. Iannaccone of Male and Female in Christ (San Jose, Calif.: Lem Press, 1999). She holds a doctorate in social and organizational psychology from the University of Chicago and is currently a senior research fellow at the Consortium for the Economic Study of Religion at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. She and her husband, Laurence R. Iannaccone, have two grown children. This paper is taken from The Redemption of Love and was presented at the 2005 annual meeting of Society for the Scientific Study of Religion/Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture. Used by permission. She thanks Laurence R. Iannaccone and Anne Mikkola for their comments and suggestions.