Read a June 17, 2012, guest column posted by The Washington Post, “What’s an American Buddhist?”

Read the transcript from a June 15, 2012, episode of Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, about an American who is the first Westerner appointed abbot of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery.

Read a July 19, 2012, column in The Huffington Post about the Pew study’s findings. It’s written by Khyati Y. Joshi, who served as an adviser on the study.

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Sociologist Michael Emerson and a team of researchers at Rice University conducted a national study on multiracial Protestant and Catholic denominations. They found that more than 9 in 10 U.S. churches remain segregated. They analyzed 20 multiracial congregations in the U.S. and identified seven models for how those ethnically diverse congregations came to be.

The Rev. Derrick Harkins is the national director of interfaith outreach for the Democratic National Committee. He also serves as senior vice president for innovations in public programming at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

The Rev. Miriam Burnett is medical director of the Connectional Health Commission of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and pastor of New Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Willow Grove, Pa.

Sister Carol Keehan is president and chief executive officer of the Catholic Health Association, which has worked to improve children’s health care coverage through a partnership with the Campaign for Children’s Health Care. Contact Fred Caesar.

The Rev. Gary Olsen of Rolling Hills Community Church of Lago Vista, Texas, taught a workshop called “Crowning ‘Prince Caspian’: An Evangelism and Discipleship Growth Opportunity” for clergy and lay people. It was sponsored by the Richard and Julia Wilke Institute for Discipleship.