Mala Htun is professor of political science at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She wrote Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce and the Family Under Latin American Dictatorships and Democracies (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

The Center for Faith and Community Health Transformation in Park Ridge, Ill., has done research on religion’s influence on policy-making.

Eugene F. Rivers is pastor of Pentecostal Azusa Christian Community (affiliated with the Church of God in Christ) in south Boston and president of Ella J. Baker House community organization in the Dorchester Four Corners neighborhood of Boston. Rivers co-founded the clergy-led National Ten Point Leadership Foundation, which is credited with helping to diminish gang violence in Boston and […]

Read influential evangelical Brian McLaren’s blog post addressing conservative Christians on the subject of health care.

Factcheck.org offers analysis of television advertising about health care reform proposals.

Read an Aug. 10, 2009, Christian Science Monitor guide to principal features of health insurance reform proposals.

Read an Aug. 18, 2009, Religion News Service story about the religious element to the health care debate.

Read an Aug. 9, 2009, New York Times primer on health care reform proposals.

The Washington Post has a page with the latest developments on national health care legislation.