Kyoko Tokuno is a senior lecturer in comparative religion at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She focuses on Buddhist texts and culture of medieval China and Japan, their relation to Indian Buddhism and the development of Buddhist canon in East Asia.

Ummah Sports is an online news site dedicated to the intersection of Islam and sports and is based in Seattle. Austin Burton is the editor.

Ruth Zlotnick is the head rabbi at Temple Beth Am, a Reform congregation in Seattle, where her assistant rabbi is a man.

Read a Dec. 5, 2011, post on CNN’s Belief blog about baby boomers heading to seminary.

Armand L. Mauss, a professor emeritus of sociology and religious studies at Washington State University who now lives in Irvine, Calif., has written extensively on Mormonism. His most recent book is All Abraham’s Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage (University of Illinois Press, 2003).

The Palestine Chronicle is an independent online newspaper. Its primary focus is on Palestine, Israel, and the Middle East. It is based in Mountlake Terrace, Wash.

Arab Film Distribution was created to maintain and promote the flow of Arab films in America. It is based in Seattle.

Northwest Catholic is the official publication of the Archdiocese of Seattle. Greg Magnoni is the editor.