A sensationally popular book series about the love between a vampire and a human. The Mormon author, Stephanie Meyer, infuses her books with a number of religious oriented values, especially in regards to abstinence.

Read an April 7, 2013, column in the Huffington Post by S. Brent Plate, a visiting associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College.

Read this New Republic article published April 18, 2013, to mark the Man of Steel’s 75 years.

Ann Stone is the head of Republicans for Choice in Alexandria, Va., which says its aim is to remove politics from the abortion debate.

Read a Q-and-A in the April 28, 2013, edition of Our Sunday Visitor with Franciscan University of Steubenville philosophy professor Jonathan Sanford, co-editor of Spider-Man and Philosophy: The Web of Inquiry.

Gerard Heather is a political science professor at San Francisco State University and an expert on religion and politics.

Steven J. Zipperstein is a professor in Jewish culture and history at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif. He is co-editor of a series of books titled Jewish Lives from Yale University Press. His research areas include modern Jewish history, and he teaches a course on Jews in the modern world.

Eugene Sheppard is an associate professor of modern Jewish history and thought at Brandeis University in Boston and associate director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry. He is an expert on the influence of European Jewish refugees on public life and academia in the U.S.

The Rev. John Putka is a Marianist priest and lecturer in political science at the University of Dayton in Ohio. Putka specializes in analyzing Catholic voting patterns and believes abortion is a key issue influencing the Catholic vote.