Gary Gunderson is a professor of faith and health of the public at Wake Forest University as well as the vice president of faith and health ministries at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, N.C. He is an ordained American Baptist minister and the author of several books on faith and health including Religion and […]

June 22, 2013, Baltimore Sun article about the role of religious leaders and institutions in Maryland’s outreach program, designed to enroll uninsured Maryland residents in health insurance programs under the Affordable Care Act.

It seems religion writers deal more in theory than fact. How does a good reporter write an accurate story when people’s understanding of truth differs? By Susan Hogan/Albach The Dallas Morning News* Never take at face value that anyone has the truth about Scripture. Most religious traditions disagree over how to interpret sacred texts. Just […]

The Rev. Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner is a professor of pastoral care at Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology in Dallas. Her teaching specialties include issues in practical theology, pastoral care of women, crisis ministry, pastoral self-care, family systems theory and adoption. She wrote The Spirit of Adoption: At Home in God’s Family. She is an […]

Read a March 24, 2013 Huffington Post article about studies tracking racial diversity, or its lack thereof, in houses of worship.

View a compilation of statistics on racial diversity in houses of worship; between 5 to 7.5 percent of churches are considered racially diverse.

Read a Jan. 16, 2012 Christian Post article about “Church Diversity Week” and the lack of diversity in most U.S. houses of worship.

Jacqui Lewis is senior minister at Middle Collegiate Church, a multicultural, Reformed Church in America congregation in New York City. Lewis has written that multiracial and multicultural congregations “help us to rehearse the Reign of God here on earth.”

The Rev. Anita Hendrix is pastor of Hunting Ridge Presbyterian Church, a multiethnic congregation in Baltimore affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Her congregation is about 60 percent Anglo, with others of African-American, Caribbean, Asian and African heritage.