Focus on the Family’s Action Center arm CitizenLink.com asked people to tell their representatives to exclude abortion services from health care reform. Focus also lists Family Policy Councils in many states.

Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and is an advocate of a single-payer system, as he wrote in a July 14, 2009, article in The Christian Century titled “Health-Care Fix.”

James R. Thobaben, a professor of church in society at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Ky., is author of a new volume, Health-Care Ethics: A Comprehensive Christian Resource. The work focuses on evangelical Christian views on health care policy.

Read a May 27, 2010 article from the Huffington Post about the Buddhist perspective on the oil spill.

Read a May 7, 2010 article from the Huffington Post about the Episcopal perspective on the oil spill.

The Rev. Chuck Freeman, founder of The Free Souls Project and a self-described liberal, has a May 31 column at The Huffington Post religion blog titled “Hearing the Prophetic Call in the Gulf Oil Disaster.”

Read a June 1, 2010 blog post, “Ecological Catastrophe and the Uneasy Evangelical Conscience,” by Russell D. Moore, a popular writer and dean of the School of Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Read a June 1, 2010 essay in Christianity Today by Mark Galli titled,  “Judgment in the Gulf: Woes and blessings of the oil spill.”

This story, published on May 14, 2013, in the New York Times, explains how Vermont became the first state to pass a legislative measure allowing physicians to administer lethal drugs to terminally ill patients in May 2013.