Michael Suman is a communications lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, and editor of Religion and Prime Time Television (Praeger Publishers, 1997).

Read a March 27, 2013, article from Christianity Today, “Is Coptic Evangelism in Africa Really on the Rise?”

Read a June 29, 2005, Christian Science Monitor story about U.S. churches addressing poverty in Africa.

Read the July 6, 2005, Washington Times article “Christian groups unite against worst African ills.”

The White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, Calif., offers a Thanksgiving yoga retreat at its center in the mountains.

The interdenominational Christian Renewal Center in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon has an annual weekend retreat that features holiday dinner, inspirational speakers and children’s activities.

Kanuga is an Episcopal conference center in the mountains of western North Carolina.

Saint Christopher is an Episcopal conference center on Seabrook Island, S.C.

Scot McKnight is Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in Lombard, Ill. He specializes in films about Jesus and the Orthodox faith. He wrote The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others (Paraclete Press, 2004) and is Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University in Chicago. He is co-editor, along with James D.G. Dunn, emeritus […]