Vincent Wimbush is a religion professor at Claremont Graduate University. He also directs the Institute for Signifying Scriptures in Claremont, Calif. His three-year “African Americans and the Bible” research project was funded by the Ford Foundation and the Lilly Endowment.

Nancy Padian is an adjunct professor of epidemiology in the school of public health at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a founding faculty member of the Center of Evaluation for Global Action at the university, a senior technical advisor of the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, and a consultant for the […]

The Buddhist Peace Fellowship works for peace from diverse Buddhist perspectives. It’s based in Berkeley, Calif. Dawn Haney and Katie Loncke are co-directors.

JustWarTheory.com is an extensive guide to philosophical studies of warfare, maintained by Mark Rigstad, associate professor of philosophy at Oakland University. It is a treasure trove of links, information and articles on just war theory.

The Rev. Fumiaki Usuki is the temple minister of the West Los Angeles Buddhist Temple, which has a Facebook page.

The Catholic Diocese of San Jose, Calif., uses Facebook and Twitter to stay in touch with local Catholics.

Courage to Resist is a California-based organization that supports war resisters. Email via their website.

Jeremiah Owyang is an industry analyst at the Altimeter Group in Silicon Valley and a columnist for Forbes CMO Network. He has blogged about social network statistics and can discuss how to interpret them.

Stephen O’Leary is an associate professor of communication at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He wrote a chapter, “Cyberspace as Sacred Space: Communicating Religion on Computer Networks,” for the book Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet.