Thomas C. Berg is a law professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis. He is a leading expert on church-state issues and has written on religious land use questions. He supports the rights of religious organizations to choose members based on religion and sexual conduct. He has also written about religious speech in the workplace.

Read a Feb. 4, 2011, Charisma article about an RLUIPA dispute involving a 1,000-plus-member church in Medina, Minn.

David J. Lose holds the Marbury E. Anderson Chair in Biblical Preaching at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minn. He is author of Confessing Jesus Christ: Preaching in a Postmodern World (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2003).

The Pluralism Project at Harvard University offers a state-by-state search engine for religious communities.