Charles Hallisey is a senior lecturer on Buddhist literature at the Harvard Divinity School. He is co-chairman of the American Academy of Religion’s Buddhism section and can speak about Theravada Buddhism and Buddhist ethics.

The website of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Charles S. Prebish is a professor emeritus of religious studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is a co-founder of the Journal of Buddhist Ethics and can speak about the development of Buddhism in North America and the way the internet has been used to connect Buddhists worldwide.

Jin Y. Park is an assistant professor in the department of philosophy and religion at American University in Washington, D.C. She specializes in Buddhist philosophy; her doctoral dissertation was on Zen Buddhism and postmodern thought.

Read a 2009 essay published in the Journal of Jewish Communal Service about the expansion of Judaism, and the growing interests and appropriations of its spiritual practices.

Read Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg’s column, “The Fad That Would Not Pass,” about Jewish spirituality and its focus not on the community but on the self.

Why should the secular media cover religion? By Gayle White The Atlanta Journal-Constitution* Why should the secular media cover politics? Or science? Or sports? Because they are part of human life and contribute to the order of society. Often, religion provides the “why” in the equation of a story. Faith motivates people, groups and, at […]

Gerard V. Bradley is a law professor at the University of Notre Dame. He wrote the article “Same-Sex Marriage: Our Final Answer?” for the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy.

Jonathan Rauch is an Atlantic Monthly correspondent, a National Journal columnist and the author of Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America (Times Books, 2004).