The “What is Scientology?” website explains the religion’s origins, principles, services and more. It also features a glossary of terms.

The website of the Church of Scientology International includes a wide range of information, as well as links to Scientology resources. Contact through the website.

Encyclopaedia Britannica’s entry on the modern animal rights movement includes a discussion of the varying moral and theological viewpoints involved.

The BBC posts a number of articles on ethical issues involving animals.

Read The Skeptic’s Dictionary entry on miracles.

Read the entry on miracles in the 1911 edition of The Catholic Encyclopedia. (The 1911 edition has since been superseded in some respects, but this entry is a good historical overview.)

Read the essay on miracles in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which includes David Hume’s well-known argument against the likelihood of miracles and a discussion of the religious significance of miracles.

Dr. Elizabeth E. Carr is a California and Paris based marriage and family therapist with a Ph.D. in spirituality. Dr. Carr has worked and lectured in nine countries across Asia, the Americas and Europe.

See the entry on the Virgin Mary in the Encyclopedia of Religion and Society, edited by William H. Swatos Jr.