Anthony Stultz is the founder and director of the Blue Mountain Lotus Society in Harrisburg, Pa., a nonprofit organization devoted to sharing the universal teachings of the Buddha in the 21st century. He also oversees the Center for Mindfulness Counseling, integrating Eastern and Western counseling techniques.

The Rev. Patricia Roane is president of Genesis Ministers’ Conference, a monthly meeting of women in church leadership drawn from members of the Pennsylvania Baptist Clergywomen of central Pennsylvania.

Read an Aug. 23, 2012, column in The Wall Street Journal about the debt problem for seminary students and what congregations and schools can do differently to address it. Russell D. Moore, dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., is the author.

Read an Aug. 11, 2011, Associated Baptist Press article in The Baptist Standard about ways that seminaries are adapting to the nation’s changing religious landscape.

Willette A. Burgie-Bryant is director of student formation and the chaplain at Eastern University’s Palmer Theological Seminary in Wynnewood, Pa.

Phillip Berryman is an affiliated faculty member in the Latin American studies program at Temple University in Philadelphia. His books include Liberation Theology: Essential Facts About the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America — and Beyond (February 2013).

Peter Appelbaum, an associate professor of education at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa., wrote the chapter “Magic, Technoculture, and Becoming Human” for Harry Potter’s World: Multidisciplinary Critical Perspectives (Routledge; 2003).

The Jewish Chronicle, based in Pittsburgh, describes itself as “an independent multimedia Jewish news organization serving the Jewish communities of Pittsburgh, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia.” Lee Chottiner is executive editor.

The Jewish Exponent is a Jewish newspaper published by the Jewish Publication Group. It is based in Philadelphia. Lisa Hostein is executive editor.