The Contemporary Religious Artists Association is an organization of professional artists who take religion as their subject. Its members are painters, sculptors, musicians and writers who “seek God with heart and mind, and to glorify God through our artistic work.” The group was founded in response to St. John Paul II’s 1999 appeal to artists to […]

Matthew Vines is a gay evangelical Christian activist who works for full inclusion of LGBT people in the Christian church. He is the author of God and the Gay Christian. Vines is based in Wichita, Kan. Contact through Helena Brantley.

The Reformation Project is an ecumenical Christian organization that works for full inclusion of LGBT people within the church. It is based in Wichita, Kan., and Matthew Vines, author of God and the Gay Christian, is its president.

Philip Nel teaches English at Kansas State University and is the author of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Novels: A Reader’s Guide (Continuum, 2001).

Martin Ottenheimer is an anthropology professor at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., whose research specializes in marriage and family relationships.

The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle is a weekly Jewish newspaper based in Fairway, Kan. Barbara Bayer is editor.

The Catholic Advance is the official newspaper of the Catholic Diocese of Wichita, Ks. Christopher M. Riggs is the editor.

The Mennonite World Review describes itself as an “independent journalistic ministry” appealing to Mennonites and members of the global Anabaptist movement. It is owned by Mennonite World Review, Inc., and is based in Newton, Ks.

The Southwest Kansas Register is the official newspaper of the Catholic Diocese of Dodge City, Ks.