The Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative is a project of the Center for Religion & Civic Culture at the University of Southern California. The initiative awards grants to research centers and individuals to study Pentecostalism and its various renewal movements in four major geographic regions: Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union. Brie […]

Kathryn Skaggs is a Southern California woman who helped found Mormon Women Stand. She has a popular blog called A Well-Behaved Mormon Woman, on which she has been critical of Ordain Women. Contact via Twitter, @LDSNana.

NightLight International works to prevent commercial sexual exploitation and help its victims escape from it by providing alternative employment and other assistance. CEO Annie Dieselberg founded the organization in 2005 after years of missionary work in Thailand with her husband, an evangelical pastor. In Bangkok, NightLight operates as a business and as a nonprofit; in the […]

Joanna Macy is an eco-philosopher and a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory and deep ecology. She has been an activist for many years in the peace, justice and ecology movements and conducts workshops and training for many groups, including churches. She lives in Berkeley, Calif. Contact through her website.

The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers includes indigenous women from the Americas, Asia and Africa who first convened in 2004. Their alliance emphasizes prayer and education to protect the Earth and indigenous ways of life. The group’s office is in Sonora, Calif. Contact using the form on their website.

LLewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi teacher and founder of the Golden Sufi Center, which has its North American headquarters in Point Reyes Station, Calif., as well as offices in the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Vaughan-Lee, a native of London, edited the anthology Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth, and a column he wrote on eco-spirituality was […]

Betty Ann Boeving is founder and executive director of the Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition. Email her through the organization’s website.

Read a Los Angeles Daily News article about California communities with large Filipino-American populations and how they’re responding to the typhoon.

Read a June 9, 2010, IslamToday article about Claremont School of Theology’s decision to add clerical training for Muslims and Jews, making the Methodist-affiliated institution  “the first truly multi-faith American seminary.”