This Nov. 1, 2013, fact sheet by the Public Religion Research Institute provides data from its research on Americans’ views on gay and lesbian issues, including whether such matters should be decided at the state or federal level.

Joseph La Rue serves as legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which describes itself as “an alliance-building legal ministry that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith.” He is based in the organization’s Scottsdale, Ariz., headquarters. The alliance supported the measure approved in February 2014 by the Arizona Legislature to […]

Read a Feb. 21, 2014, New York Times story about Arizona legislation that would let business owners use religious objections as justification for refusing service to gay couples.

Lisa Williams overcame years of childhood sexual abuse and other trauma and is now executive director of Living Water for Girls, a residential haven she founded in 2007 that provides education and therapeutic assistance to girls escaping prostitution and the street life. She lives in Georgia.  

Kate Mogulescu is the founder and supervising attorney of the Trafficking Victims Advocacy Project at the Legal Aid Society in New York City. The project has won praise from the American Bar Association, and Mogulescu has trained public defenders and prosecutors throughout the nation, as well as locally, on how to identify victims of sex trafficking […]

Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis is a Roman Catholic sister in the Dominican order who has been deeply involved in environmental work for decades. In 1980, she helped create Genesis Farm, an Earth literacy center in Blairstown, N.J., and she serves as its director. In 2007, the environmental magazine Grist named her one of the world’s top […]

Read an Oct. 16, 2013, article in The Atlantic about Roman Catholic nuns from a variety of orders who have become deeply involved in environmentalism.

Read a Jan. 23, 2014, Religion News Service about increased interest in burials that are more Earth-friendly than has been the custom.