David R. Bains teaches the history of American Christianity at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala.

Karen-Marie Yust is an associate professor of Christian education at Union Theological Seminary-Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Va. She is a minister in both the United Church of Christ and Disciples of Christ denominations and is the author of Real Kids, Real Faith: Practices for Nurturing Children’s Spiritual Lives.

Isaac Kramnick teaches government at Cornell University and co-authored The Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of the Secular State (W.W. Norton, 2005). His 1996 American Prospect essay “Is God a Republican?” reflects on religious entanglement in partisan politics. Book co-author R. Laurence Moore teaches American studies at Cornell.

An independent journal from a more conservative viewpoint.

Our Sunday Visitor is a popular Catholic news weekly viewed as conservative.

A church run magazine for lay Catholics.

Read a May 17, 2013, article by the Orlando Sentinel about one women’s religious mission trips with youth groups.

A Jesuit national Catholic weekly magazine in the United States.

See an October 2008 Barna Group survey about mission trips.