Read a history of fixed-hour prayer by Phyllis Tickle as posted on the Web site explorefaith.org.

Read an excerpt of Praying With Our Hands: 21 Practices of Embodied Prayer from the World’s Spiritual Traditions by Jon Sweeney as posted on Beliefnet.com.

The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship is an organization based in Grand Rapids, Mich., dedicated to promoting Christian scholarship. Its online resources include information about the practice of fixed-hour prayer and about disability within faith communities.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is an Orthodox rabbi from Englewood, N.J., who has become a nationally known figure through his writings and television appearances. Boteach (pronounced boh-TAY-ock) offers family and personal advice based in traditional Jewish wisdom. He hosts the Learning Channel program Shalom in the Home and became popular through his book Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and […]

The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry describes itself as “a cross-disciplinary organization of individuals whose research concerns the Jewish people throughout the world.” The association is a valuable resource for experts and the latest research. Steven M. Cohen is the president.

The Rev. Ed Bacon is rector of All Saints Church in Pasadena, Calif., a congregation known for its progressive ideals and missions.

Charles McDaniel is a former businessman and now the associate director of the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He wrote God & Money: The Moral Challenge of Capitalism, and he writes and teaches on “the developmental parallels between Muslim economic thought and Christian economic ideas as they evolved over the course of […]

Charles K. Wilber is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame. His article “Can a Christian Be an Economist?” ran in the spring/fall 2006 edition of the journal Faith & Economics.

Mike Slaughter is lead pastor at Ginghamsburg Church in Tipp City, Ohio, and author of the book Upside Living in a Downside Economy.