Omar McRoberts, associate professor at the University of Chicago sociology department, has studied faith-based prisoner re-entry programs. He wrote Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood (University of Chicago Press, 2005).

Leonard Sipes, senior public affairs specialist for the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia, works with faith-based prisoner re-entry programs.

Read a June 26, 2011, New York Times editorial on the state’s acceptance of gay marriage.

Read a July 3, 2011, essay in The New York Times about the increasing disparity in marriage patterns of the affluent and the poor.

See a July 28, 2011, post by The Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan on Americans’ shifting attitudes about premarital and extramarital sex.

ChurchMedia.Net is a community for those working in religious electronic media. Participants on message boards discuss a host of topics, from which songs to broadcast for Easter to which microphones work best.

Technologies for Worship Magazine, based in Ontario, Canada, covers the industry, from AV systems and video production to music, media and ministry.

Craig Patchett is founder of The GodCast Network, which offers free MP3s of Christian and family-friendly audio content.

Anthony Coppedge is a Bedford, Texas, church media and communications consultant. Churches have been recording their sermons for years, he says, but now, with websites as electronic front doors and with easy access to MP3 files, church members and religious surfers alike are listening to and sharing sermons, giving the spoken word much wider circulation. Since […]