Cambridge Zen Center, in Cambridge, Mass., is a nonprofit Zen Buddhist organization that provides Zen training, education and support through formal practice. It is one of the largest Buddhist outreach organizations in Massachusetts and the second largest residential Zen training locations in the U.S.

Cambridge Insight Meditation Center is a nonprofit, nonresidential urban center for the practice of insight meditation in Cambridge, Mass. It offers a place for people to learn, support and deepen their practice under the guidance of three guiding meditation teachers: Larry Rosenberg, Narayan Helen Liebenson and Michael Grady.

Michael Serazio is an assistant professor of communication at Boston University, in Boston, Mass. In January 2013, he wrote an essay for The Atlantic likening sports fans’ use of team icons to religious totems.

The Rev. Cristian De La Rosa is a clinical assistant professor of contextual theology and practice and director of contextual education and community partnerships at Boston University’s School of Theology. She is also head of the United Methodist Church’s Hispanic/Latina Methodist Clergywomen’s group.

Hee Ann Choi is the director of the Anna Howard Shaw Center at Boston University’s School of Theology. She was the lead investigator on a 2012 study of retention of women clergy.

The Anna Howard Shaw Center at Boston University School of Theology is an ecumenical center focused on women in the clergy and women’s issues in religion that is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. In 2012, the center published a study on the retention of women clergy. Rev. Dr. Hee An Choi is the director […]

Read an Oct. 31, 2011, Christian Century article about curriculum overhauls at many seminaries.

St. John’s Seminary, a Catholic school in Brighton, Mass., is expanding its on-campus offerings with the introduction of a new institute on faith formation and a new master’s degree to be offered through that institute. The Rev. Christopher O’Connor is president of the institute. Contact via the seminary.

Read an interview at BeliefNet with Brian Glynn Williams, a historian of Islam, who says that “Islam is not the driving machine behind the Chechen resistance.”