The Center for Health and Gender Equity in Takoma Park, Md., monitors “the effects of U.S. international policies on the health and rights of women, girls, and other vulnerable populations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.”

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.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services explains health care reform at its Web site HealthReform.gov.

Milton C. Sernett is a history professor in the African-American studies department of Syracuse University. He wrote Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration (Duke University Press, 1997) and has co-chaired the American Academy of Religion’s African American Religious History Group. He has retired from teaching.