Read a June 11, 2014, New York Times story about the threatened excommunication of Kelly and Dehlin.

Read a June 11, 2014, story from The Salt Lake Tribune about the threatened excommunication of Kelly and Dehlin.

Jana Riess is a scholar and journalist known for her coverage and research of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She is the author of The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church.

Kate Kelly is an attorney and women’s rights activist. In 2013, she founded Ordain Women, a grassroots organization that seeks the ordination of women to the Mormon priesthood. Contact Kelly through the form on her website.

John P. Dehlin is the founder of Mormon Stories Podcast, a podcast/website that has been critical of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Richard Land, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary, argues in this Feb. 1, 2012, essay that capital punishment is biblically and morally justified.

Read a March 31, 2014, Q-and-A on Jana Riess’ Flunking Sainthood blog with Kathleen Bolduc, who raised a son with special needs and is the author of The Spiritual Art of Raising Children With Disabilities.

Read Jonathan Merritt’s June 5, 2013, interview for Religion News Service with Amy Julia Becker, who has a child with Down syndrome and is the author of A Good and Perfect Gift: Faith, Expectations and a Little Girl Named Penny.

Read a March 12, 2014, Religion News Service story about a suburban Maryland bakery that employs workers with cognitive disabilities, in keeping with the Jewish principle of helping those in need to become self-sufficient.