Mary Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor at Harvard Law School and was a vocal advocate of  Pope John Paul II’s views on women, abortion, sexuality and related issues. In 2004 the pope appointed her as head of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, at that time the highest Vatican post ever held […]

Lisa Sowle Cahill is a professor of theology at Boston College who has written about genetics from a Christian perspective. Her books include Theological Bioethics: Participation, Justice and Change and Bioethics and the Common Good.

Alice Laffey is an associate professor of religious studies at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. She has written a history of papal statements and the evolution of papal teaching, and she can address issues regarding women and gender.

Eugene Kennedy is emeritus professor of psychology at Loyola University, Chicago and a columnist for National Catholic Reporter. Kennedy has argued that the Catholic church needs to go in a more reformist direction. He is author of several books, including The Unhealed Wound: The Church and Human Sexuality (St. Martins Press, 2001).

Carrie Miles is a senior scholar-in-residence at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. She is the author of The Redemption of Love: Rescuing  Marriage and Sexuality from the Economics of a Fallen World ( Brazos Press, 2006). The book uses economics and social science to understand biblical teachings on marriage and the family.

Read a Feb. 5, 2004, article that talks about how shock is used as a marketing tool.

Read a Nov. 15, 2004, Christian Science Monitor article on how past elections have influenced the culture wars.

Rabbi Yehuda Levin is founder of Jews for Morality, an Orthodox Jewish group based in Brooklyn, N.Y., that promotes family values.

Dr. Connie Elsberg is the author of Graceful Women: Gender and Identity in an American Sikh Community (The University of Tennessee Press, 2003) and Assistant Dean for Economics, Geography, Psychology, Sociology at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Va. She specializes in non-Punjabi Sikhs living in the West.