Kathryn Rettig is a professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota who has looked at marriage issues, child support systems and the values underlying end-of-life decisions.

Stella Capek, Hendrix College sociology professor, has studied the right-to-die movement in the United States.

Dixon Sutherland is the Stetson University professor of religion and ethics and has also served as director of the Christian Ethics Institute.

James Hoefler is a professor and the coordinator of the political science department at Dickinson College.

Arthur Dyck is a Harvard University professor of population ethics.. His main concentration is in ethical theory, with special application to questions of moral knowledge, human rights, and bioethics.

Richard Doerflinger, deputy director of the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, is a bioethicist who writes frequently on euthanasia. He has written extensively on Roman Catholic teachings on bioethics and testified before Congress. Many of his articles are posted on the Pro-Life Activities bioethics web page.

Read the Catholic Encyclopedia entry on Judas.

See the National Geographic Society website on the gospel of Judas.

Dr. J. Anderson Thomson Jr. is a psychiatrist in Charlottesville, Va., and a trustee of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. He is interested in the new cognitive neuroscience of religious belief — why human minds generate, accept and spread religious ideas — and spoke on the subject at the American Atheists’ 2009 convention. He has also […]