The GI Rights Hotline is a group of nearly 20 non-governmental, non-profit organizations located in 11 states and in Germany that provides free, confidential and accurate information on US military regulations and practices to service members, veterans, potential recruits and their families.

The Center on Conscience & War is a faith-based organization that advocates for the rights of conscience, opposes military conscription and serves all conscientious objectors to war. Maria Santelli is the executive director.

Helen Osman is secretary of communications for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and can discuss the conference’s guidelines on use of social networks among Catholics. Contact [email protected].

Stephen Mansfield is the author of numerous books on religion and the presidency, including The Faith of Barack Obama and The Faith of George W. Bush. He has also written about the faith of other leaders, including Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln.

House2House is a webzine about the house church/simple church movement.

Kristin Henderson is an author, Quaker and wife of a Navy chaplain. Her books include While They’re At War: The True Stories of American Families on the Homefront (Houghton Mifflin, 2006).

Jorge Ramos, anchorman for Noticiero Univision and author of several books, wrote The Latino Wave: How Hispanics Are Transforming Politics in America (Rayo, 2005).

Dina Siegel Vann is director of the American Jewish Committee’s Institute on Latino and Latin American Affairs in Washington, D.C.

The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC.