Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, N.Y., has an active Facebook page. Rabbi Andy Bachman is its creator.

Stephen Shields is the founder of FaithMaps. He freelances for Leadership Network, where he wrote a guide (enter “social networking” in the Keywords field) to online social networks for churches.

Jeremiah Owyang is an industry analyst at the Altimeter Group in Silicon Valley and a columnist for Forbes CMO Network. He has blogged about social network statistics and can discuss how to interpret them.

Helen Osman is secretary of communications for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and can discuss the conference’s guidelines on use of social networks among Catholics. Contact [email protected].

Stephen O’Leary is an associate professor of communication at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He wrote a chapter, “Cyberspace as Sacred Space: Communicating Religion on Computer Networks,” for the book Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet.

Glen Moriarty is an assistant professor of psychology and counseling at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va. He wrote an article about Christian social networking for the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture.

Wendy Griffin is a professor emerita at California State University, Long Beach. She wrote a chapter, “The Goddess Net,” for the book Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet.

Chris Forbes is author of the e-book Facebook for Pastors and hosts a Facebook page of the same name. He is the founder of Ministry Marketing Coach and lives in Oklahoma City, Okla.

Douglas Cowan is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He is an expert on the neo-pagan community and has written about the community’s use of the Internet to communicate and share ideas about faith and rituals. He has also published about Mormonism and evangelical practice in North America […]