Lawrence M. Mead, a politics professor, teaches courses about welfare reform, politics and public policy at New York University. He co-authored Lifting Up the Poor: A Dialogue on Religion, Poverty & Welfare Reform.

Guian McKee is an associate professor at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia whose expertise includes poverty and civil rights. He is the author of The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia (2008) — which features a War on Poverty-funded job training program that developed out of an African-American church […]

Read a 2006 article on spiritual progressives from Yes! Magazine.

Read an April 5, 2006, article from Slate that analyzes factions and priorities among groups on the Religious Left.

See Beliefnet’s guide to leaders of the Religious Left.

Current news and events. Articles’ sections: religion, history, theology, culture, politics.

The Rev. Pamela D. Couture is the inaugural holder of the Jane and Geoffrey Martin Chair in Church and Community at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. She is the author of Child Poverty: Love, Justice and Social Responsibility and Seeing Children, Seeing God: A Practical Theology of Children and Poverty.

Includes history of the mission and detailed information on monastic communities in the Holy Land.

The official website of Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Information on the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, news, publications, and interviews.