The Project on Death in America seeks to transform the culture of dying by supporting initiatives in research, scholarship, the humanities and the arts, and by fostering innovation in the provision of care, public and professional education, and public policy. It is a major funder of research on death, dying and palliative care.

Shaye J.D. Cohen is the Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy in the department of Near Eastern languages and civilizations of Harvard University. Cohen is a leading authority on ancient Judaism and early Christianity.

A Religion News Service piece analyzing the portrayal of torture in the 2012 movie “Zero Dark Thirty.”

Kevin Lewis is a professor of religious studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He teaches a course called “Visions of Apocalypse” and has written an essay on Americans’ obsession with the apocalypse.

Philip Lamy is professor of sociology and anthropology at Castleton State College in Castleton, Vt. He is an expert on secular millennial movements, including among survivalist groups and militias.

Read a Jan 5, 2012 Christian Post article about Christian hiphop, its growing popularity and some churches’ hesitancy to accept the genre with open arms.

Read a Sept. 13, 2004 New York Times article about the developing relationship between hiphop and Christianity.

Read an April 21, 2013 Christianity Today article about how Christian hiphop might be another form of evangelical marketing.

Read a April 29, 2008 Patheos article in response to “The Failure of Christian Hip Hop.”