Unity Fellowship Church, Charlotte, is an all-inclusive church in Charlotte, N.C. Its mission statement specifically calls for no gender-based discrimination and for inclusion of LGBT people. It is a member of the Unity Fellowship Church Movement, a growing network of like-minded churches throughout the South. The church has worked with the Human Rights Campaign to […]

Sumi Loundon Kim is the Buddhist chaplain at Duke University and teacher for the Buddhist Families of Durham. She has published two anthologies about young Buddhists: Blue Jean Buddha and The Buddha’s Apprentices. Originally brought up in a Soto Zen community, she has been following the Theravada lineage for the past 20 years.

James D. Cox is a professor of law at Duke University Law School in Durham, N.C.  He  is an expert on corporate law and filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court supporting the government’s position in the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga challenge to the contraception mandate. The brief argues, in part, that the religious values […]

Neil Siegel is a professor of law and political science and co-director of the Program in Public Law at Duke University in Durham, N.C. He is an expert on constitutional law and theory, and the Supreme Court. Much of his recent work has been on the Affordable Care Act. He clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Fred Bahnson is director of the Food, Faith & Religious Leadership Initiative at Wake Forest University School of Divinity in Winston-Salem, N.C. He co-founded a church-supported agriculture ministry in Cedar Grove, N.C., in 2005 and has taught regenerative agriculture for many years. Bahnson is the author of Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and […]

Ellen F. Davis is Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School in Durham, N.C. Davis has been in the vanguard among theologians studying the biblical understanding of care for the land, and she is a sought-after speaker on topics such as the ethics of land use. She is the author […]

Jeff McSwain is the founder of Reality Ministries in Durham, N.C. The nonprofit works to bring together teens and adults, with and without disabilities, “to be reflective of God’s heart for humanity.”

Read a July 13, 2012, Christianity Today story about North Street Community in Durham, N.C., a redevelopment project that includes housing for people with disabilities and for seminary students as well.

John Senior is an assistant professor of the practice of religion and society at Wake Forest Divinity School in Winston-Salem, N.C. Theological education is among his areas of expertise.