July 15, 2013, The State article about the evolution of the term “pagan.”

Alan Franklin Segal was a professor of Jewish studies at Columbia University in New York City and author of Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion. He passed away in 2011.

Lisa J. Schwebel is an assistant professor in the department of classical and Oriental studies at Hunter College in New York City and author of Apparitions, Healings and Weeping Madonnas: Christianity and the Paranormal.

A “pray for climate change” service held in Australia drew a number of global faith leaders, according to an Anglican Journal article. The leaders are in Melbourne for the Parliament of the World’s Religions, where climate change from a spiritual perspective is expected to be discussed.

Mark Massa is a professor of theology and co-director of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University in New York City. He is also a Jesuit priest and can address Catholic concepts of God.

St. Brigid’s Academy and Seminary (SBA) is one of the oldest, continuously active Wiccan Colleges and online learning sites in the state of California.

Julie Hicks Patrick is an associate professor of psychology at West Virginia University in Morgantown. She is working on a journal article that examines what adults pray and why.

Catholic News Service writes about the Vatican delegation to the conference in this article.

Read a Dec. 3, 2009, blog post, “Climate Talks Blow More Hot Air,” by Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council. Perkins and the FRC reflect the views of many conservative Christian skeptics.