Michael Gilmour is an associate professor of New Testament and English Literature at Providence College and Seminary in Otterburne, Manitoba, Canada. He has taught a course on religious themes in popular music and is the author of Tangled Up in the Bible: Bob Dylan and Scripture (Continuum, 2004). He says some people find in music that draws on […]

David Fillingim is the author of Redneck Liberation: Country Music as Theology (Mercer University Press, 2003), in which he discusses country music lyrics as the theological expression of a marginalized group, “the Rednecks.” He is a professor at Cape Fear Community College in North Carolina.

Erika Doss is a professor in the department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. She has written about popular culture religious expressions involving Elvis Presley.

Ronnie Christian runs Christian Cowboys and Friends, a cowboy ministry through country music, in Blanco, Texas.

Ralph Wood is a professor of theology and literature at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He has written about the religious themes of writers such as Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, P.D. James and others.

Erin Smith is associate professor of gender studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. She has spoken on the subject of religious book clubs at a conference on religion and the culture of print.

Darren Middleton is an professor in the department of religion at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. He has written about religion in the literature of Nikos Kazantzakis. He says more non-Christian publishers are producing books with religious themes and material. He calls this the “Mel Gibson-Dan Brown effect,” but also says it moves into […]

The Church of God of Prophecy in Cleveland, Tenn., has a global outreach program that works in Africa.

The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in Los Angeles builds churches and has trained local people to carry on the work in east, west and south Africa.