The Salvation Army is an international Christian humanitarian organization that works with many at-risk communities. The media contact is Kurt Watkins.

Kenneth Elzinga is Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia. His past research interests include religion and economics.

Kenneth Stroupe is the chief of staff at the University of Virginia Center for Politics and the director of the National Youth Leadership Initiative (YLI).

Burns Strider is the founder of the Eleison and The American Values Network. He has served in an array of high ranking positions within the Democratic party including as senior adviser and director of faith-based operations for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, director of religious outreach for the House Democrats and lead staffer for the […]

Connally Gilliam of Arlington, Va., who works for the Christian ministry The Navigators as a life coach for young adult singles, wrote about unintentional singleness in Revelations of a Single Woman: Loving the Life I Didn’t Expect.

The Ecumenical Miracle Rosary was created in 1999 by a Lutheran layman, Dennis Di Mauro, who discovered the Catholic rosary while attending a spirituality group with his wife, a Catholic. DiMauro liked the prayer but not some of the traditional Marian doctrines. So he created his own version, replacing scriptural elements for some passages, and it has […]

Todd Kashdan is a professor of clinical psychology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., where he directs the Laboratory for the Study of Social Anxiety, Character Strengths and Related Phenomena. He has researched the relationship between gratitude and well-being among Vietnam War veterans.

Amos Yong is a theology professor at Regent University’s School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Va. He is the author of The Bible, Disability and the Church: A New Vision of the People of God and Theology and Down Syndrome: Reimagining Disability in Late Modernity.

The Brain Injury Association of America in Vienna, Va., is the clearinghouse for information about traumatic brain injury. According to its 2012 annual report, 2.5 million Americans a year experience a traumatic brain injury or stroke.