Daniel Terris is director of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. He contributed a chapter on Jews and African-Americans in the New England states to Religion and Public Life in New England: Steady Habits Changing Slowly.

Frederick Streets is the Senior Pastor of the Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ in New Haven, Conn.  He contributed an article to the Feb. 22, 2008, issue of the journal Faith and International Affairs on the special role African-Americans can have in the building of bridges with Muslims overseas.

The National Black Chaplains Associationr was established in 1988 to help strengthen cultural diversity within Veterans Affairs. Michael L. McCoy is president.

Sandy Dwayne Martin is a religion professor at the University of Georgia in Athens. He has written about women’s roles in African-American denominations.

Teresa Fry Brown is an associate professor at Emory University in Atlanta. She is author of Weary Throats and New Songs: Black Women Proclaiming God’s Word and God Don’t Like Ugly: African American Women Handing on Spiritual Values.

ONE International is an international grassroots organization that aims to reduce poverty and preventable disease in Africa and globally. Contact U.S. media manager Ian Koski.

Oxfam International is a confederation of 17 different organizations that work in 90 countries to reduce poverty worldwide. They work in the political arena, in emergency relief and in grassroots community development projects.

Sandra Barnes is a professor of human and organizational development at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., whose research interests include the sociology of religion. She is the author of The Black Mega Church: Framing and Addressing HIV/AIDS and Poverty in the Age of Health and Wealth Theology.

Read an August 13, 2012, article published by the Religion News Service about how the tenets of Islam are interpreted differently around the world.