FaithNet of the National Alliance on Mental Illness is an outreach effort to religious communities to enhance understanding of the value of spirituality in responding to and recovering from mental illness.

John F. Hawley is a professor and chairman of the astronomy department at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He co authored Foundations of Modern Cosmology (2nd edition, 2005).

Salma Abugideiri is advisory board member and director of training of the Peaceful Families Project and a licensed professional counselor in private practice in Sterling, Virginia. She is the co-author of What Islam Says About Domestic Violence: A Guide for Helping Muslim Families.

Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va., was opened in 2000 by the Home School Legal Defense Association to provide higher education for Christian homeschooled students.

Young America’s Foundation is an organization for young conservatives. It organizes conferences for students on colleges and university campuses around conservative issues. Email through the website.

Graham M. Schweig specializes in love mysticism within the religions of India and has published a number of books on the theme of divine love. He is associate professor of religion and director of the Asian Studies Program at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Va.

Michael Boylan is a philosophy professor at Marymount University in Arlington, Va., who has written about ethical perspectives on gun control.

The St. Gabriel Possenti Society, a Catholic group based in Arlington, Va., promotes self-defense through gun ownership and is named after a Catholic seminarian in Italy whose “marksmanship and proficiency with handguns single-handedly saved the village of Isola” from a band of Garibaldi’s nationalist soldiers in 1860. The group claims Possenti as the patron saint of […]

The Peaceful Families Project produces workshops nationwide on domestic violence from a Muslim perspective. The organization is based in Great Falls, Virginia. Lina Hashem is president.