Philip Schwadel is a sociology professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He studies religion and politics and recently wrote about the politics of the religious nones.

R. Collin Mangrum is a law professor at Creighton University in Omaha who teaches on church and state issues and on the history of American legal thought. He is co-author of Zion in the Courts: A Legal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900 (University of Illinois Press, 1988).

The Catholic Voice is the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Omaha, Neb.

The Southern Nebraska Register is the official newspaper of the Catholic Diocese of Lincoln, Neb.

The West Nebraska Register is the official publication of the Catholic Diocese of Grand Island, Neb.

Chris Heuertz is international executive director of Word Made Flesh, which works with the world’s vulnerable people. He lives in Omaha, Neb.

Loukia K. Sarroub, an associate professor of education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, writes about literacy among American and Iraqi children.

The Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska in Omaha is a center of research on the Afghan region, peoples and cultures, including the country’s politics. Charley Reed is the center’s media contact.

Winifred J. Ellenchild Pinch is a professor at the Center for Health Policy and Ethics and professor of nursing at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb.  She wrote When the Bough Breaks: Parental Perceptions of Ethical Decision-Making in NICU.