Jeanette Bradley is the founder of 2nd Chance Ministries, an Ohio-based Christian street ministry that helps people who want to escape a bad situation and make a new life. She overcame a history of drug addiction and prostitution, a past she recounts in her book I’m Still Standing.

Art Ayris is CEO of Kingstone Media, a Florida-based company whose goal is “to become the ‘Marvel’ of the faith market, the leading publisher of Christian comic books and Biblical worldview graphic novels worldwide.”

Read an account, posted by Christianity Today, of the typhoon’s aftermath as described by a World Vision aid worker.

The Rev. Richard Ryscavage is a Jesuit priest and expert on global migration who teaches at Georgetown University. He previously directed Fairfield University’s Center for Faith and Public Life. He also formerly served as national director of the Jesuit Refugee Service and was the executive director of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Office of […]

Jeff McSwain is the founder of Reality Ministries in Durham, N.C. The nonprofit works to bring together teens and adults, with and without disabilities, “to be reflective of God’s heart for humanity.”

Read a Jan. 24, 2013, post on the First Thoughts blog about “a richer theological model of disability.”

Gordon Temple is chief executive of Torch Trust, a British-based organization that works to bring Christ to the visually impaired. Among other things, Temple can discuss how people experiencing sudden disability go through a grief process, and how churches and ministries can help with that.

Tony Phelps-Jones is director of ministry for Prospects, which helps churches in the United Kingdom provide “effective ministry and outreach among people dearly loved by God and often marginalised by society.” The organization focuses on those with learning disabilities.

Read an account on EthicsDaily.com about the July 2013 Enabling Church conference in Bristol, England. Speakers discussed a range of ways that congregations can become more inclusive of people with disabilities.