Read a June 12, 2013, Tucson Sentinel article about an Arizona court dismissing a lawsuit filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation after Gov. Jan Brewer proclaimed an “Arizona Day of Prayer.”  

Jane Maienschein is a professor of history and philosophy of science at Arizona State University in Tempe. She wrote Whose View of Life?: Embryos, Cloning, and Stem Cells (Harvard University Press, 2003).

Steven Tracy is a professor of theology and ethics at Phoenix Seminary in Phoenix, Ariz. Gender and sexuality issues are among his specialties. He and his wife are the founders of Mending the Soul Ministries, which focuses on Christian married couples.

The Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation at Arizona State University works to develop nonprofit leadership. Robert Ashcraft is executive director.

Bob Blincoe is the president of Frontiers, a Christian nonprofit that sends missionaries to the Muslim world. It is based in Phoenix.

A. Hiro Nishikawa of Haverford, Pa., is a third-generation Japanese American and a national board member of the Japanese American Citizens League. As a child, he was incarcerated during World War II with his family in a concentration camp in Poston, Ariz. Raised Buddhist (Shin-shu), he is active in the Unitarian Universalist Church.

Desert Rose Bahá’í Institute in Eloy, Ariz., offers a variety of Bahá’í spiritual programs.

The Coalition for Compassion and Justice, based in Prescott, Ariz., helps meet the needs of people in poverty. Contact executive director Paul Mitchell.

Adam Cohen is an assistant professor of social psychology at Arizona State University in Tempe. His interests include moral judgment.