The Rev. Derrick Harkins is the national director of interfaith outreach for the Democratic National Committee. He also serves as senior vice president for innovations in public programming at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Catherine Rymph is an associate professor of history at the University of Missouri. Her areas of focus are recent history and women’s political history. She is the author of Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism From Suffrage Through the Rise of the New Right.

Craig Hickman is a representative in the Maine House of Representatives. He is also a poet, actor, dancer, activist and educator.

Read a Christianity Today Q-and-A with Graham, posted Jan. 21, 2011, in which he expressed regret for some of his past political involvements.

See a May 15, 2011, Newsweek article about conflicts among his offspring over protecting their father’s image and the family name.

Read a May 17, 2011, post by Stephen Prothero on CNN’s Belief blog. The Boston University religion scholar praises Billy Graham as “a powerful preacher of the gospel” but calls his son Franklin “a political hack.”

Read a Baptist minister’s Oct. 19, 2012, commentary about Billy Graham’s comments in the 2012 presidential election.

Among those who consider themselves part of the Tea Party, 51 percent reject evolution, according to a September 2011 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute. Sixty-one percent of independents and 64 percent of Democrats accept evolution, the survey found.

Watch a video uploaded on Feb. 13, 2009, about President Barack Obama’s views on evolution. He believes in evolution and has praised the work of Charles Darwin.