Read a May 11, 2009, Los Angeles Times article about the hacker behind the 2008 cyber-attack on Church of Scientology websites.

Read a June 1, 2009, Wall Street Journal story about a decision by Wikipedia, the open-source, user-edited Internet encyclopedia, to ban the Church of Scientology from editing entries about Scientology. The decision came after months of debate by Wikipedia’s arbitration committee and resulted from the high degree of conflict over entries on Scientology. A few Scientology critics were also […]

Gordon Leidner is a Lincoln scholar and former president of the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia. He maintains the website Great American History, on which he has written about Lincoln’s religious faith. He says Lincoln’s legacy in American civil religion is that he never doubted the existence and sovereignty of God or that God had […]

Best Friends Animal Society is a nonprofit in Kanab, Utah, that runs an animal sanctuary and many programs that benefit animals. Its Best Friends Network is an online gathering space for people concerned about animals. It has an animals and religion section on its website.

The Rev. Patricia D. Brown is director of Spiritworks, a nonprofit, online resource for the exploration of Judeo-Christian spirituality. She is the author of Paths to Prayer: Finding Your Own Way to the Presence of God. She is based in Pittsburgh.

Kevin Bondelli has been working in youth activism and Democratic politics since 2000. He has served as Young Democrats of America in numerous capacities including as communications chair and southwest region director. He has also worked as an internet and technology strategist for the Arizona Democratic Party.

Spark Networks in Beverly Hills, Calif., owns online singles services, including JDate for Jewish singles, CatholicMingle.com, ChristianMingle.com and LDSMingle.com. In its 2007 trends reports, Spark Networks said it is seeing a rise in offline events connected to its dating sites and an increased subscriber base of single parents.

Mike Hayes is a co-author of Googling God: The Religious Landscape of People in Their 20s and 30s (2007). He is the co-founder of the website Busted Halo and the senior editor of the Googling God blog.

Read a July 13, 2007, U.S. Catholic story about Catholics and online dating.