• Dana Robert is professor of world Christianity and history of mission and director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University School of Theology. She is the editor of African Christian Outreach, Vol. 2: Mission Churches (Southern African Missiological Society, 2003) and co-editor of Frontiers of African Christianity (Unisa Press, 2003).

Suzanne Holland is a professor in the department of religion at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash. She has written about television and radio as public confessionals in the shows of Judge Judy and Dr. Laura.

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.