The Third Coast Sports Foundation is a sports ministry that works with major and minor league baseball teams to provide Christian acts for “Faith Nights” or “Faith Days” at ballparks. The foundation is based in Nashville, Tenn. Brent High is president.

Rachel Held Evans is a popular blogger and the author of A Year of Biblical Womanhood, in which she explored the meaning of “biblical womanhood” as it is understood by many complementarian and egalitarian Christians. She lives in Dayton, Tenn. Contact via her publicist.

Sallie McFague is Distinguished Theologian in Residence at Vancouver School of Theology in Canada and a former dean at Vanderbilt University’s Divinity School. She has written numerous articles and several books on theology and the environment, including Super, Natural Christians: How We Should Love Nature and Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice […]

Beth Conklin is an associate professor of anthropology and religious studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and co-director of the Ecology and Spirituality in America project at the university’s Center for the Study of Religion and Culture. The project focuses on the influences driving the consumer culture in the U.S. and the problems it […]

Viki B. Matson is an assistant professor of the practice of ministry and director of field education at Vanderbilt Divinity School at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. Her areas of interest include church leadership development and theological education.

The Rev. Sky McCracken is district superintendent for the Paducah district of the Memphis Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. He wrote a July 2011 essay for The United Methodist Reporter in which he questioned the value of seminary education in training pastors to successfully lead congregations.

The Tennessee Register is the official publication of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nashville, Tenn.

The United Methodist News Service is the media arm of the United Methodist Church. Its site includes summaries of news relevant to the UMC, headlines, and a collection of blogs and commentaries. It is based in Nashville, Tn.

John Hardwig is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research interests include bioethics, especially end-of-life issues, and he is the editor of Is There a Duty to Die?: And Other Essays in Medical Ethics.