Michael Serazio is an assistant professor of communication at Boston University, in Boston, Mass. In January 2013, he wrote an essay for The Atlantic likening sports fans’ use of team icons to religious totems.

Jewish Baseball News, where the motto is “News and stats on Jews with bats,” tracks professional baseball players of Jewish heritage from farm teams to the major leagues. It maintains a list of current Jewish baseball players. Scott Barancik is the editor.

Scholars and comic book creators contributed essays to this book. Christine Hoff Kraemer and A. David Lewis are its co-editors.

Art Ayris is CEO of Kingstone Media, a Florida-based company whose goal is “to become the ‘Marvel’ of the faith market, the leading publisher of Christian comic books and Biblical worldview graphic novels worldwide.”

Read a Nov. 29, 2013, Deseret News article about the increasing emergence of comic books and graphic novels in which religion is not simply alluded to, but central to the story.

Mark I. Pinsky is an author and longtime journalist who covered the religion beat for many years. His books include Amazing Gifts: Stories of Faith, Disability and Inclusion; A Jew Among the Evangelicals: A Guide for the Perplexed; and The Gospel According to the Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of the World’s Most Animated Family. Pinsky […]

Read an Aug. 24, 2012, article from The Jewish Standard about a controversial, one-year online seminary, the Jewish Spiritual Leaders Institute.