The White House website has a fact sheet on the DREAM Act laying out the arguments for the legislation.

Jan. 29, 2013, The Dallas Morning News blog post which takes offense to the belief that the religious left needs to be more combative to gain traction in the national conversation.

Jan. 11, 2013, The Washington Post article on what the religious left must do to gain more national and media attention.

Transcript of an April 16, 2013, letter to President Barack Obama questioning the American drone program signed by several progressive religious leaders.

The Right Reverend George E. Packard is the Bishop Suffragan for Chaplaincies for the Episcopal Church. He is in charge of all Episcopal chaplains attached to the armed services. He describes the rosaries, prayer beads and medals soldiers carry into battle as “companion object[s] which God uses to heighten moments of insight, prayer, and sometimes deep sorrow.”

Joel A. Carpenter is a professor of history at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., where he also directs the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity. He also is the former religion officer for the Pew Charitable Trusts and former director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicalism.

Asma Afsaruddin is chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Indiana.

Mark Bailey is president of the Dallas Theological Seminary and a noted expert on Christian End Times scenarios. He is the author of essays in the books Countdown to Armageddon (Harvest House, 1999) and The Road to Armageddon (Word, 1999).

Winter/spring 2000 Georgetown Journal of International Affairs article which looked at the impact of religion on American foreign policy.