A story about U.S. Rep. Bob Ney agreeing to plead guilty to accusations of conspiracy to commit fraud.

Steve Hays is an associate professor in the department of classics and world religions at Ohio University in Athens. With funding from the Ford Foundation, he is helping to develop a Difficult Dialogues Concerning Race and Religion program.

The Quinnipiac University Polling Institute is operated out of Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., and regularly conducts surveys of residents of Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia as well as nationwide.

The transcript of a panel discussion on the Cleveland voucher case sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

Read a Sept. 17, 2012 article about the expansion of religious diversity on college campuses in the U.S.

Rich Nathan is pastor of Vineyard Church of Columbus in Westerville, Ohio, a congregation of 10,000 that includes members who came from 75 different countries. He has said he’s seen how the immigration system can separate families or prevent them from visiting sick or dying relatives.

David S. Ariel is president of the Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Judaic Studies in Cleveland. He wrote the book Spiritual Judaism: Restoring Heart and Soul to Jewish Life (Hyperion, 1998).

Amy Hanauer is executive director of Policy Matters Ohio, a nonprofit group in Cleveland that studies public policy issues related to economics.

The Islamic Center of Greater Toledo is one of the largest mosques in the U.S. It was founded more than 75 years ago by Syrian immigrants and today serves Muslims of 20 nationalities. Contact secretary Aneesa Shaheen.