Read a Jan. 28, 2005, article, “Choosing Their Flock,” on the Chronicle website. Contact author Burton Bollag.

Read a Jan. 25, 2005, Christian Science Monitor article, “Campus Christians: Not always at ease,” about Christians feeling as though their faith is mocked in the classroom.

Read a May 12, 2000, Chronicle of Higher Education article describing how nondiscrimination clauses affected a religious group at Tufts University.

The Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, part of Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, is the country’s oldest center for such study. With a history that traces back to 1893, the center focuses on research, teaching, publication and public discourse. Its faculty includes Mahmoud Ayoub, the Rev. Steven Blackburn and Yahya Michot.

Attorney Gene Schaerr helped draft RLUIPA, testified on its behalf before Congress and has been heavily involved in defending it.

Eric Rassbach is deputy general counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

The National League of Cities is a national advocacy group representing some 19,000 cities, villages and towns across the country. Contact Gregory Minchak or Amanda Straub.

Elizabeth Merritt is deputy general counsel at the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Ross Baker is a political science professor at Rutgers University and the author of Strangers on a Hill: Congress and the Court, which examines RLUIPA’s evolution.