HealthCare Chaplaincy coordinates the work of chaplains of different faiths in New York health-care institutions and does research. One research project involves daughters caring for mothers with Alzheimer’s. Charysse Harper is the communications manager.

James McCartney, associate professor emeritus of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University in Rhode Island, has studied spirituality among older people.

Yakir Kaufman is a neurologist at Herzog Memorial Hospital in Jerusalem. He conducted a study published in 2005 showing that spiritual people may be better protected against Alzheimer’s disease.

John W. Oller Jr. is a professor of communicative disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is on the technical advisory board of the Institute for Creation Research, which lists him as a “creation scientist.”

Read “Death Anxiety Shapes Views on Evolution,” posted March 30, 2011, by the online magazine Miller-McCune.com.

Lee M. Williams is professor of marital and family therapy in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences at the University of San Diego. He is the author of several articles on interchurch couples, including “Premarital Counseling With Interchurch Couples: Clinical Implications From Recent Research,” published in 2002 in the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy.

Pamela Jordan is an associate professor of family and child nursing at the University of Washington and developer of the Becoming Parents Program. Her research focuses on the transition to parenthood and supporting individuals and couples as they become parents.

Judith K. Balswick is senior professor of marital and family therapy in the School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif.

Jack O. Balswick is senior professor of sociology and family development in the School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif.