Jack Levin, professor of sociology and criminology and co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflictat Northeastern University in Boston, has written about domestic terrorism, hate crimes, youth violence, ethnic conflict and mass and serial murder.

Ervin Staub is professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and founding director emeritus of its doctoral program on the psychology of peace and the prevention of violence. He has written several books about evil, including The Psychology of Good and Evil: Why Children, Adults and Groups Help and Harm Others and Overcoming Evil: Genocide, […]

Ruth Nemzoff is a resident scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center. She was formerly New Hampshire’s deputy commissioner of health and welfare and the former assistant minority leader of the New Hampshire legislature.

18Doors.com (formerly InterfaithFamily.com) is a resource supporting interfaith couples exploring Jewish life and inclusive Jewish communities. It offers educational content; connections to welcoming organizations, professionals and programs; and resources and trainings for organizations, clergy and other program providers.

Hospice chaplain Nancy Ledoux wrote “Ministering to Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders.”

Laurie Godfrey is an anthropology professor at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She and Andrew Petto are co-editors of Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism.

Marla Frederick is a leading ethnographer and scholar focused on the African American religious experience. She is dean of Harvard Divinity School, Boston. Her expertise includes the African-American religious experience. She is the author or co-author of four books, including Colored Television: American Religion Gone Global and Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of […]

The Rev. Preston N. Williams is Houghton Research Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change Emeritus at Harvard University, Boston. He directs the Summer Leadership Institute and is an ordained minister in the United Presbyterian Church.

March 11, 2006, The Boston Globe article about Catholic Charities decision to end offering adoption services rather than comply with state law requiring that gays be allowed to adopt children (subscription required).