Bishop Karen Oliveto leads the Mountain Sky Episcopal Area of the United Methodist Church. She’s the denomination’s first openly lesbian bishop.

Anna Runion is the minister for youth and social justice at Pilgrim United Church of Christ in Carlsbad, Calif. The church is a member of the Center for Progressive Christianity and openly welcomes and affirms people of all genders and sexual persuasions and has a relationship with the Gay-Straight Alliance chapter at a local high […]

Rabbi Lisa Edwards is the rabbi of Congregation Beth Chayim Chadashim, a LGBT-specific synagogue in Los Angeles.

Rabbi Camille Shira Angel is the rabbi of Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, a LGBT-specific synagogue in San Francisco. It has extensive teen programming, including organizing teen activism for LGBT rights.

The Rev. Theresa Novak is the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ogden, Utah, which has a drop-in center for LGBT youth.

Yadi Martinez is youth minister at Cathedral of Hope in Dallas. The church was formerly a Metropolitan Community Church, is now affiliated with the United Church of Christ and has a large number of LGBT members.

Read an April 23, 2008, Seattle Post-Intelligencer article about signs that some Americans are stockpiling food in light of the global problems. An accompanying timeline lists developments in the world food crisis since September 2007.

Read an April 25, 2008, Columbus Dispatch “Faith & Values” feature about Tony Hall, a former congressman who serves as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s envoy to religious groups in the Middle East. Hall has worked for decades on the problem of world hunger and has said that his advocacy on that and related issues is driven […]

Read an April 25, 2008, analysis of the global food crisis posted by the BBC. Cornell University economics professor Kaushik Basu is the author.