The Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative is a project of the Center for Religion & Civic Culture at the University of Southern California. The initiative awards grants to research centers and individuals to study Pentecostalism and its various renewal movements in four major geographic regions: Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union. Brie […]

Read a June 2, 2014, Religion News Service story about a Public Religion Research Institute poll that shows most Americans favor the contraception mandate.

Read a June 23, 2014, Religion News Service story rounding up various polls that show differing levels of support for each side in the case.

The Rev. Cheryl B. Anderson is a professor of Old Testament at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill., and an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church.  

Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis is a Roman Catholic sister in the Dominican order who has been deeply involved in environmental work for decades. In 1980, she helped create Genesis Farm, an Earth literacy center in Blairstown, N.J., and she serves as its director. In 2007, the environmental magazine Grist named her one of the world’s top […]

Sallie McFague is Distinguished Theologian in Residence at Vancouver School of Theology in Canada and a former dean at Vanderbilt University’s Divinity School. She has written numerous articles and several books on theology and the environment, including Super, Natural Christians: How We Should Love Nature and Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice […]

Gregory Hitzhusen is a lecturer in the School of Environmental and Natural Resources at Ohio State University. His research interests include religious influences on environmental attitudes and behavior and other aspects of environmental ethics and eco-theology. Hitzhusen, who wrote his doctoral dissertation on the contributions of Christianity and Judaism to environmental ethics and education and […]

Jonathan Merritt writes and speaks extensively on faith and culture and is a senior columnist for Religion News Service. Merritt’s books include A Faith of Our Own: Following Jesus Beyond the Culture Wars and Jesus Is Better Than You Imagined. He can discuss the viewpoints and concerns of young evangelicals on a range of issues, especially on […]