Read an Oct. 29, 2009, Christianity Today story.

“The 99” are Muslim comic book superheroes and the creation of an American-educated artist, Naif al-Mutawa. Mutawa’s characters battle evil, and each character represents one of the 99 qualities that Muslims attribute to God. Read a Jan. 22, 2006, New York Times story about “The 99” at Adherents.com and an Oct. 5, 2011, CNN story about resistance to the comic book […]

Co-author of This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor (2007). Contact through the book’s publisher, Public Affairs.

Sharon Feiman-Nemser is a professor of Jewish education at Brandeis University and director of the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. She says Jews need to find ways to help unaffiliated and disaffected Jews discover meaning in the faith. A major challenge, she says, will be to ascertain ways to make this ancient faith […]

Caitlin E. Borgmann is an associate professor at City University of New York School of Law and editor of the Reproductive Rights Prof Blog, which posts news about abortion and other reproductive rights issues. Borgmann has testified before several state legislatures about reproductive rights.

Read a Sept. 7, 2012, Religion News Service story about DC Comics introducing a new Muslim superhero.

Bristol Palin is perhaps America’s most famous teen mom. She became a “teen-abstinence ambassador” in 2009 for the Candie’s Foundation, and she appeared in a People magazine cover story in which she confided that a teen mom’s job is hard work.

Louis Feldman is a professor of classics and literature at Yeshiva University in New York City. He is an expert on conversion to Judaism and can discuss conversion from a historical perspective.

A Jan. 2, 2013, New York Times story previewed the conference at the Center for Jewish History and explored religious aspects of the most famous superhero.