David S. Cunningham is the author of Reading Is Believing: The Christian Faith Through Literature and Film (Brazos Press, 2002), in which he argues that reading books and seeing movies can lead Christians to a deeper faith. He is a professor of religion at Hope College in Holland, Mich.

Alice Bach is an associate professor of Catholic studies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She has written about the Bible in popular culture and its translation into Hollywood films.

The Text This Week is a website of resources for study and liturgy based on the Revised Common Lectionary. It includes a movie concordance of film scenes pastors can use to illustrate their sermons and lessons. It is run by Jenee Woodard of Jackson, Mich.

Jeremy Biles wrote a paper about ritual and salvation in the television show The Swan while doing doctoral work in religion and literature at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He teaches photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Phil Boatwright is a Christian movie critic whose work appears on his website, The Movie Reporter. He is based in Tonganoxie, Kan.

Peter Gilmour is professor emeritus at the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University in Chicago, where he taught a graduate course on Jesus in the movies.

Elijah Siegler is an associate professor of religious studies at the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C. He contributed “God in the Box: Religion in Contemporary Television Cop Shows” to the book God in the Details: American Religion in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2001).

The center is an interdisciplinary program in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, dedicated to the study of the modern Middle East and the geo-cultural area in which Islamic civilization prospered, and continues to shape world history.  The center at the University of Arkansas includes professors in a variety of disciplines.

See a Feb. 4, 2012, New York Times story about the increasing number of people living alone.