Alison Hill is a television and radio producer and contributor to the website AssociatedContent.com. She has written about the religion of celebrity in the U.S. Hill lives in Asheville, N.C.

Presbyterians for Earth Care, formerly Presbyterians for Restoring Creation, is a grass-roots national organization of Presbyterians associated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) who are concerned about the environment and work to support the church’s environmental statements and goals.

Sean McCloud is an associate professor of religious studies and director of graduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who specializes in New Religious Movements.

Nicholas Carnagey is visiting professor of psychology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., and co-author of the chapter “Violent Evil and the General Aggression Model” in The Social Psychology of Good and Evil.

Gregory Baylor is director of the Christian Legal Society and said outlawing sacramental tea would be the equivalent of banning the wine served at a Roman Catholic Mass.

The Center on Poverty, Work & Opportunity is at the University of North Carolina. Gene Nichol, a law professor at the university, is director.

Stephen J. Pullum is a professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He wrote “Foul Demons, Come Out!”: The Rhetoric of Twentieth-Century American Faith Healing.

Marybeth Whalen, along with her husband Curt, wrote the 2009 book Learning to Live Financially Free, based on their own financial mistakes. Contact the Charlotte, N.C., couple through publicist Leslie Paladino at their Grand Rapids, Mich., publisher, Kregel Publishing.

Tom and Bev Rodgers of Charlotte, N.C., have been married for 34 years. They co-direct a Christian counseling practice and wrote The Singlehood Phenomenon: 10 Brutally Honest Reasons People Aren’t Getting Married.