Professor of Religious Studies and Theology at St. Jerome’s University at the University of Waterloo. His primary focus in systematic theology among the Orthodox in particular. His dissertation studied the Orthodox Theologians at l’Institute Saint Serge, Paris (1925-1939) and their perception of St. Augustine’s Theology.

The Rev. Victoria Weinstein is pastor of First Parish Church of Norwell, Mass., a Unitarian Universalist congregation. In May 2006, she delivered a sermon on the spiritual value of animals.

The Rev. Nancy Taylor is senior pastor of the Old South Church, a United Church of Christ congregation in Boston. In May 2006, she preached a sermon on the blessings given and received by animals.

Read a guide on preventing domestic violence for houses of worship.

Read a March 2006 essay by Julia L. Perilla about how religious teachings and communities can help prevent domestic violence.

Read an April 5, 2012 clerical response to domestic violence by Dr. Steven R. Tracy on the Mending the Soul website.

July 5, 2013, Episcopal News Service article about homelessness in Canada and the responses of the Anglican and Lutheran churches.

Summum is a religion and philosophy founded by Claude Nowell in 1975. Contact through the website.

Ken Wilson is senior pastor at the Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor, Mich., which encourages its members to make fixed-hour prayers, an unusual thing for a nondenominational church to do.