At The Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan, a Catholic, wrote a post about his dying friend Christopher Hitchens.

At The American Conservative, Rod Dreher wrote about suffering and conversion in response to Mark Judge’s Dec. 8, 2011, column on Christopher Hitchens.

Read a post at First Things by Wesley Smith that criticizes Mark Judge’s prediction that Christopher Hitchens would convert to Christianity.

Read a controversial column in The Daily Caller by Mark Judge reflecting on Christopher Hitchens’ final column for Vanity Fair.

Brenda Salter McNeil is president of Salter McNeil & Associates, based in Oak Park, Ill., and a nationally known consultant on racial healing and diversity within Christian organizations. She co-authored The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change (InterVarsity Press, 2004).

Article from The Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health & Ethics website about views on abortion and contraception in Islam.

Article from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice’s website about views on abortion in Judaism.

Pamela Jordan is an associate professor of family and child nursing at the University of Washington and developer of the Becoming Parents Program. Her research focuses on the transition to parenthood and supporting individuals and couples as they become parents.

Judith K. Balswick is senior professor of marital and family therapy in the School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif.