Read a June 25, 2010, article from the United Methodist News Service about churches’ efforts to aid animals.

Read a June 18, 2010, article in The Columbus Dispatch about how animals should be treated according to a religious perspective.

Feb. 25, 2009, The New York Times article about the Supreme Court ruling in Pleasant Grove City v. Summum that a Utah city park did not need to put up a monument to a small Utah-based religion (Summum) just because it had a monument to the Ten Commandments.

Oyez page for the 2009 Supreme Court Case Pleasant Grove City v. Summum.

Summum is a religion and philosophy founded by Claude Nowell in 1975. Contact through the website.

Ken Wilson is senior pastor at the Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor, Mich., which encourages its members to make fixed-hour prayers, an unusual thing for a nondenominational church to do.

Donna Schaper is the senior pastor at Judson Memorial Church in New York, N.Y., and co-author of Labyrinths From the Outside In: Walking to Spiritual Insight – A Beginner’s Guide.

The Rev. Robert VerEecke is a Catholic priest and pastor of The Church of St. Francis Xavier in New York, N.Y. He has written about liturgical dance and dance as prayer and leads workshops on embodied prayer in the Boston area.

St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in Tucson, Ariz., has a “way of the cross” that worshippers are encouraged to walk as part of their religious practice. Email through the website.