Luceia LeDoux is program director of public safety and governmental oversight grants for the Baptist Community Ministries of New Orleans. She oversees this Christian nonprofit’s community grants that benefit young offenders and at-risk youths in the New Orleans area.

Charles Staples is an evangelical Christian and an attorney in Virginia Beach, Va., who deals primarily in juvenile justice and juvenile advocacy cases.

Betty Gernert is a leader of Epiphany Ministry, a Christian ministry to incarcerated youths based in Danville, Ga.

Joe Benton is a special assistant for faith-base initiatives at the 7th District AME Church of South Carolina. In 2005, the church and the state’s department of juvenile justice signed an agreement to work together to benefit children in the state’s juvenile justice system or at risk of entering it.

Michael Rickenbaker is the general chaplain of Christian Prisoner Fellowship in Hazelwood, Mo. The Pentecostal-based ministry has an outreach program to juvenile offenders.

Scott Larson is an adjunct professor of Christian ministries at Gordon College in Wenham, Mass. In 2009, Gordon became the first Christian college to offer a major in juvenile justice ministries. Larson is the primary instructor for the school’s juvenile justice ministries courses and the co-founder and president of Straight Ahead Ministries, a faith-based organization that works with […]

Sister Janet Harris is a Roman Catholic nun and a nationally recognized advocate for juvenile justice reform. She is the founder of InsideOUT Writers, a writers program for incarcerated juveniles in Los Angeles detention centers, where she was once a chaplain.

June 30, 2013, The Boston Globe article about mainline Protestant churches calling on their denominations to divest the assets from their endowments and pension funds from the fossil fuel industry as a symbol of acknowledgment of its role in climate change.

June 28, 2013, post in the “On Faith” blog on The Washington Post website by national evangelical leader Richard Cizik. Cizik outlines his conversion to belief in climate change and encourages all evangelical leaders to urge their parishioners to contact their elected representative and ask for action on climate change.