The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma provides resources to help ensure “informed, innovative and ethical news reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy.” The center is a project of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

The National Organization on Disability promotes full accessibility in all aspects of life for those with disabilities. The nonprofit group is based in New York City. Kaitlin Bitting handles media inquiries.

Ora Horn Prouser is executive vice president and academic dean at the Academy for Jewish Religion, a pluralistic rabbinical and cantorial school in Yonkers, N.Y. She is the author of Esau’s Blessing: How the Bible Embraces Those With Special Needs.

Read a July 12, 2012 article by The Huffington Post by Serene Jones, President of Union Theological Seminary, that promotes the seminary. 

Read a Feb. 8, 2012, Huffington Post article about clergy launching a campaign for federal student loan forgiveness based on a 2007 law aimed at graduates who go into public service.

Read an article about the influence of leaders and educators on churches and their members from the September/October 2011 issue of Sojourners.

Paul Robert Sauer is associate editor of the journal Lutheran Forum in Delhi, N.Y., which covers both the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America denominations. In the summer 2009 issue, he called for closing one of the LCMS’ two seminaries because they had grown too similar to each other, and because of a decline in […]

Read an April 22 interview in The New Republic with terrorism expert Olivier Roy, who argues that the Boston suspects are more like the Columbine or Sandy Hook shooters. Roy says they have minimal connections to Islam as a religion but “are self-radicalizing in a Western environment.”

W. Christopher Stewart works at Templeton Religion Trust as its Vice President of Grant Programs.He is on leave of absence from teaching philosophy at Houghton College in Houghton, N.Y., and co-authored, with Houghton colleague Ben Lipscomb, a chapter for Harry Potter and Philosophy.