The Jewish Leader is the official newspaper of the Jewish Federation of Eastern Connecticut. It is based in New London, Conn.

The Catholic Transcript is the newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford, Conn.

The Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, Conn., is home to a number of environmental programs and an organic farm. Nigel Savage is the president and CEO.

Frank Griffel is a professor of Islamic studies at Yale University. He wrote the chapter on agnosticism for the Encyclopedia of Islam (2004).

John L. Selders Jr. is an ordained minister and bishop in the United Church of Christ and is the organizing pastor of Amistad United Church of Christ in Hartford, Conn.

June 25, 2009, Associated Press article posted on FoxNews.com about the “exorcism” of a gay teenager by a group of Connecticut church elders in 2009. The article includes video of the “exorcism.”

Michael Wishnie, a law professor at Yale Law School, has taught a class titled “Balancing Civil Liberties and National Security After Sept. 11.” His human rights law clinic has been honored by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

Pamela Wesley Gomez is director of development and external church affairs at the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.