David Stevens is an assistant professor of social sciences at the University of Nottingham in England. He is co-author of The Devil’s Long Tail: Religious and Other Radicals in the Internet Marketplace.

Danielle Keats Citron is a law professor at the University of Maryland and the author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.

Iginio Gagliardone is a research fellow in the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and a member of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford. He is lead author of the forthcoming UNESCO Internet Study: Hate Speech Online, due in 2015.

The International Network Against Cyberhate was founded in 2002 to combat discrimination online. It is based in Amsterdam. Contact Suzette Bronkhorst.

Faith communities are offering prayers and scrambling to help as the Philippines reels from a typhoon characterized by some climatologists as the most powerful ever to make landfall.

Read an Aug. 24, 2012, article from The Jewish Standard about a controversial, one-year online seminary, the Jewish Spiritual Leaders Institute.

Read an Oct. 31, 2011, Christian Century article about curriculum overhauls at many seminaries.

Read an Oct. 17, 2011, column at Patheos.com that discusses the effects of culture-shifts on seminaries.

Read an April 23, 2010, article in Christianity Today about the growth of church enrollment due to convenience brought by the internet.