The Rev. Eileen Lindner is deputy general secretary for research and planning of the National Council of Churches and senior pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Tenafly in Tenafly, N.J. Previously, she served as the director of the NCC’s Child Advocacy Office. She has written numerous books and articles on a variety of child advocacy subjects.

The Rev. John Baumann is a Jesuit priest and founding director of the PICO National Network, a national network of faith-based community organizations working to create innovative solutions to problems facing urban, suburban and rural communities.

Gary Gunderson is a professor of faith and health of the public at Wake Forest University as well as the vice president of faith and health ministries at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, N.C. He is an ordained American Baptist minister and the author of several books on faith and health including Religion and […]

June 22, 2013, Baltimore Sun article about the role of religious leaders and institutions in Maryland’s outreach program, designed to enroll uninsured Maryland residents in health insurance programs under the Affordable Care Act.

The University of Pennsylvania Center for East Asian Studies coordinates teaching and research about East Asian subjects at Penn. Center director is Jacques deLisle.

The Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder is a national resource center for Asian studies.

The Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, focuses on research and teaching; research projects there include Rethinking Confucianism.

The Stanford China Program, begun in 2007 and part of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford, includes conferences, exchanges and fieldwork in China. Program director is Jean C. Oi.

The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies has a rich history of scholarship on China.