Sex, Slander, and Salvation: Investigating The Family/Children of God is a 1994 book edited by J. Gordon Melton and James R. Lewis, on the Family International.

Sex, Slander, and Salvation consists of 17 chapters made up of essays and research papers revolving around the Family International religious movement.

According to Balch sources of information were limited exclusively to committed members and Family literature failing to triangulate it with ex-member testimony.

Singelenberg lamented the fact that Sex, Slander, and Salvation was published just before David Berg's death and the Love Charter's reorganization of the Family International.

[3] Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi in the 2001 book Misunderstanding Cults characterized the work as "made-to-order PR efforts (with a few scholarly papers which got in by honest mistakes on the part of both authors and editors)" and just one of the "extreme examples of the literature of apologetics that has dominated NRM research for years.