Read “Court upholds Georgia ban on guns in church,” a July 24, 2012, story by Religion News Service.

Read a July 25, 2012, Politico article about a coalition of U.S. mayors who are pressing both major presidential candidates to give voters more details about their stances on gun control.

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, a Catholic who often writes about the religious and moral dimensions of topical issues, has a July 26, 2012, blog post titled “On Gun Control and Prohibition.”

Allison Randall is acting director of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women. It offers funding for faith-based initiatives.

Jeffrey Sonis is assistant professor of social medicine and family medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He researches the psychosocial consequences of human rights violations. He has also studied the potential for mechanisms that facilitate justice, such as truth commissions and tribunals, for improving racial and ethnic tension, including in South Africa; […]

Jeffrie G. Murphy is professor of law, philosophy and religious studies at Arizona State University in Tempe. He is the author of Getting Even: Forgiveness and Its Limits and co-editor of Before Forgiving: Cautionary Views of Forgiveness in Psychotherapy.

Lisa Barnes Lampman is senior consultant at Dare Mighty Things and editor of God and the Victim: Theological Reflections on Evil, Victimization, Justice and Forgiveness. She formerly worked as vice president of Prison Fellowship Ministries.

Nasser Hussain is assistant professor of law, jurisprudence and social thought at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass. He co-edited Forgiveness, Mercy and Clemency (2007) and teaches the courses Law, God and Modernity and When Law Fails.

Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation was founded in 1976 as an organization for family members who have a relative who was murdered and who oppose the death penalty. Jack Sullivan Jr. is the executive director.