James A. Beverley is a theologian and professor of Christian thought and ethics at Tyndale University College and Seminary in Toronto. He is the author of The God Solution: A Reply to the God Delusion. He is also an expert on Rev. Sun Myung Moon and the fiction of Dan Brown.

Donald Boisvert, associate professor of religion at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, co-edited the collection of essays, Gay Catholic Priests and Clerical Sexual Misconduct: Breaking the Silence (Harrington Park Press, 2005). The book’s introduction says the Catholic Church is conflating homosexuality with pedophilia and warns of a “witch hunt” to weed out many good gay priests and […]

AlMaghrib Institute conducts seminars and conferences on Islam in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom, leading students to a bachelor’s degree in Islamic studies. Muhammad Alshareef is its founder. It is based in Ottawa, Canada.

The council is an organization of Islamic scholars and clergy in Canada and the United States.

Andrea Most is the author of Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical (Harvard University Press, 2004), in which she discusses how Jews used the Broadway musical as a means of assimilation during the second quarter of the 20th century. She is a professor of English at the University of Toronto.

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 […]

The association seeks to provide a forum for the unification of Muslim students from diverse backgrounds. Its website contains a list of the association’s chapters on college campuses across the country. Contact through the form on the website.

Dr. Margaret Poloma is Professor Emeritus in Sociology at the University of Akron in Ohio. She wrote about miracles as supernatural/ paranormal phenomenon in Main Street Mystics: The Toronto Blessing and Reviving Pentecostalism (Alta Mira Press, 2003). She describes herself as a Pentecostal Christian who has experienced paranormal phenomena within the framework of her religion.

Mario Beauregard, University of Montreal neuroscientist, has studied when religious feelings are experienced by using sophisticated brain scans to see inside the brains of Carmelite nuns as they recall a spiritual experience.