Richard Kieckhefer is chairman of the religion department at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and can discuss the history of miracles, magic and sainthood.

Paul Plenge Parker is chairman of the theology department at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Ill., and has written about miracles and healing.

Wendy Cotter is a Sister of St. Joseph and an associate professor of Scripture at the department of theology at Loyola University in Chicago. She has written about miracles in the Greco-Roman world and in the New Testament.

Delbert Burkett is an associate professor of New Testament and Christian origins in the department of philosophy and religious studies at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He has written on the miracle stories in early Christianity.

Danny E. Burton is an associate professor of history at the University of North Alabama in Florence, Ala. He co-authored the book Magic, Mystery and Science: The Occult in Western Civilization.

Stephen J. Pullum is a professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He wrote “Foul Demons, Come Out!”: The Rhetoric of Twentieth-Century American Faith Healing.

The Salvation Army is an international Christian humanitarian organization that works with many at-risk communities. The media contact is Kurt Watkins.

The Poverty Initiative is based at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and was established in May 2003. Its goal is to “to raise up generations of religious and community leaders dedicated to building a social movement to end poverty, led by the poor,” and it brings together scholars and grass-roots organizations. Contact the coordinator […]

The Poverty Forum, formed in 2008, is “a select group of leaders and policy experts representing divergent political perspectives but sharing biblical values surrounding God’s concern for the poor and a commitment to address poverty.” It has 18 participants and posts its specific policy proposals. It is led by co-chairs Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners, and Mike Gerson, […]