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Camillus House

Camillus House is a Miami organization dedicated to caring for the city’s poor and homeless. The organization’s website includes information and resources on homelessness. Contact Paola Iuspa-Abbott.

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National Center on Family Homelessness

The National Center on Family Homelessness, based in Washington, D.C., as a part of American Institutes for Research, is dedicated to helping homeless families. Its website includes resources for media members interested in homelessness. Contact Barbara Broman.

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Joe Wheeler

Joe Wheeler is the author of 2008’s Abraham Lincoln: A Man of Faith and Courage and a general editor for Focus on the Family. He lives in Conifer, Colo.

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Stewart Winger

Stewart Winger is an assistant professor of history at Illinois State University in Normal. His dissertation, written under Martin Marty at the University of Chicago, was titled Lincoln’s Religious Rhetoric: American Romanticism and the Antislavery Impulse. It was published as the 2003 book Lincoln, Religion and Romantic Cultural Politics.

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Jennifer Weber

Jennifer Weber is an assistant professor of history at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where she specializes in the Civil War. She was part of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission’s speakers bureau and offers a lecture titled “Lincoln and Religion.”

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Robert Bray

Robert Bray is a professor of English literature at Illinois Wesleyan University and the author of Peter Cartwright: Legendary Frontier Preacher. Cartwright was a contemporary of Lincoln’s and opposed him in the race for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1846, a race in which he used Lincoln’s supposed lack of religion against him.

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John Turner

John Turner teaches American history at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. He specializes in 19th-century American civil religion.

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Chuck Queen

Chuck Queen is senior pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Frankfort, Ky. In 2008, he gave a sermon about the Christian directive to love one’s enemies, in which he used Lincoln’s choice of his Cabinet as a major example.

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