The National Federation of Independent Business is an advocacy group based in Nashville, Tennessee, that represents the interests of small businesses. The federation opposes efforts to raise the minimum wage, saying such measures have ripple effects on the economy and can hurt entry-level workers. Email through the website.

Breakaway Outreach is a faith-based nonprofit that works with young offenders in a juvenile detention center ministry. It was co-founded by Jimmy Larche, who says his life was changed by faith when he was a teenager in a juvenile detention center.

Glenn Graber is a philosophy professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. His writings include “The Moral Status of Gametes and Embryos: Storage and Surrogacy” in Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues for the 21st Century (2nd Edition).

The Rev. Richard H. Gentzler Jr. is director of the Center on Aging & Older Adult Ministries for the General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church. The center provides resources and training for leaders of midlife and older-adult ministries. He’s the author of numerous books, including The Graying of the Church and Aging: God’s Challenge to Church and […]

The Rev. Jerome W. Berryman, an author and Episcopal priest, is a senior fellow with the Center for the Theology of Childhood in Houston. He has developed an internationally used approach to religious education called “Godly Play,” inspired by the Montessori approach to learning, which teaches children through parables, silence, liturgical movement and sacred stories. It’s used internationally […]

The Memphis (Tenn.) C.S. Lewis Society was formed in 1996. Contact through the website.

Julie Berebitsky is a professor of history and director of the women’s studies program at Sewanee: The University of the South, in Sewanee, Tenn. She is the author of Like Our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851-1950 and has contributed to a number of anthologies on adoption.

E. Haavi Morreim is a professor of bioethics at the college of medicine at the University of Tennessee in Memphis. She teaches clinical ethics and consults in medical ethics. She also chairs the Independent Patient Advocacy Council for the AbioCor artificial heart trial. She is the author of Balancing Act: The New Medical Ethics of Medicine’s […]

Ellen Wright Clayton is a professor of pediatrics, law and health policy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She also holds an appointment in the university’s Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society. She has advised numerous federal and international bodies on topics including children’s health and the ethics of research involving human subjects.