Web company based in Oklahoma City, Okla. that works with church plants.

A church-planting support ministry begun in 2002 by planters from New Life Christian Church in Centreville, Va. The nonprofit provides organizational resources, consulting and project management services for newly formed churches.

California-based parachurch organization that finds, trains, deploys and supports church planters. Began as the Northern California Evangelistic Association. It aims at a “church multiplication movement” through regional networks of church planters. It is affiliated with the nondenominational Christian Churches and Churches of Christ movements. Stadia’s goal is to build 5,500 new churches by 2025.

Includes extensive list of parachurch organizations around the world.

Irshad Manji is a writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada, and author of The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith (2004). Contact via the form on the website.

Mona Eltahawy is a speaker, writer and commentator who focuses on issues concerning Islam. She is based in New York City.

Katherine Bullock is vice president of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists of North America and editor of Muslim Women Activists in North America: Speaking for Ourselves (2005). She is also the author of Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical & Modern Stereotypes. She lives in Mississauga, Canada.

Farid Senzai is a fellow and director of research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, which researches the Muslim community in the United States. He is also an assistant professor of political science at Santa Clara University. A co-editor of Educating the Muslims of America (2009), he helped organized a 2006 conference on Islamic education in […]

Mark Jordan is a professor of Christian thought at Harvard University’s Divinity School and is an expert on issues of homosexuality in Catholic life, especially in the priesthood. He is the author of The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism, 2002) and Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk about Homosexuality (2011). He calls on the church to […]