Monique Moultrie is a professor of religious studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta, who specializes in women/gender studies, African-American studies and sexuality – specifically on African-American single Christian women.  She says more black women are single – and likely to stay that way – than any other population.

Read a July 13, 2007, U.S. Catholic story about Catholics and online dating.

Read a January 7, 2011, column at the website of First Things that rounds up a number of recent books and articles on views of the Virgin Mary among Protestants.

A Dec. 16 Catholic News Service story looks at a new book released at the Vatican that “shows how the very idea of such apparitions has been met with skepticism and preoccupation within the church, from early Christian times to the present.” In fact, as few as nine of the 2,400 recorded Marian apparitions have been approved […]

Read a Religion News Service story on the newly approved Mary apparition.

Read the statement on the Virgin Mary from Evangelicals and Catholics Together, published in November 2009 in First Things.

R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote a December 8, 2006 column (reprinted in December 2010) explaining why belief in the Virgin Birth is essential for evangelicals.

F. Stanley Jones is a professor of religious studies at California State University, Long Beach. He is the editor of a collection titled Which Mary?: The Marys of Early Christian Tradition.

Stephen J. Shoemaker is an associate professor of Christian history in the department of religious studies at the University of Oregon in Eugene. He has written widely on the Virgin Mary in early Christianity and in Gnostic traditions and teaches a course on early Islam.