Joe Wheeler is the author of 2008’s Abraham Lincoln: A Man of Faith and Courage and a general editor for Focus on the Family. He lives in Conifer, Colo.

The National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth works to make sure that children without a home have access to education.

Stewart Winger is an assistant professor of history at Illinois State University in Normal. His dissertation, written under Martin Marty at the University of Chicago, was titled Lincoln’s Religious Rhetoric: American Romanticism and the Antislavery Impulse. It was published as the 2003 book Lincoln, Religion and Romantic Cultural Politics.

Jennifer Weber is an assistant professor of history at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where she specializes in the Civil War. She was part of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission’s speakers bureau and offers a lecture titled “Lincoln and Religion.”

Robert Bray is a professor of English literature at Illinois Wesleyan University and the author of Peter Cartwright: Legendary Frontier Preacher. Cartwright was a contemporary of Lincoln’s and opposed him in the race for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1846, a race in which he used Lincoln’s supposed lack of religion against him.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness, based in Arlington, Va., works on public policy issues affecting the mentally ill, including access to affordable housing. Contact Lauren Gleason, the director of public relations and media.

This is the website of The British Orthodox Church, which is canonically part of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria.

John Turner teaches American history at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. He specializes in 19th-century American civil religion.

The Sacred Church of Saint Jacob, Apostle Greek Orthodox Parish of Florence. This is an Orthodox Church in the city center of Florence, Italy. The website gives access to links and materials regarding Orthodoxy in the region and other Orthodox sites. Contact through the website.