Helen Rose Ebaugh is a professor of sociology at the University of Houston who specializes in the sociology of religion as well as religion and new immigrants.

Drummers for Jesus is an international Christian ministry that spreads the gospel through drums. The ministry is based in Rockwall, Texas, and has a list of chapters throughout the U.S.

Diana Garland, dean of the Baylor University School of Social Work, has conducted research about congregational social work and family ministry.

George Alfred James is an associate professor in the department of philosophy and religion studies at the University of North Texas in Denton. He wrote the atheism entry for the Encyclopedia of Religion.

Francis J. Beckwith is professor of philosophy and church-state studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He writes and comments widely in defense of traditional Christianity. He also wrote Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice.

Steven Weinberg is a noted atheist and professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Texas. He is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics and the U.S. National Medal of Science, and is a foreign member of the Royal Society of London. Read his Jan. 17, 2007, review of Dawkins’ book in the Times […]

Ruben Habito is a professor of world religions and spirituality at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He is co-editor of The Practice of Altruism: Caring and Religion in a Global Perspective. He specializes in Buddhism and wrote a chapter in Altruism in World Religions.

The Muslim Institute of Houston offers courses in Arabic and the Quran in Houston, Texas.

Yusuf Ziya Kavakci is the Turkish-born imam of the Islamic Association of North Texas.