Leanne McCall Tigert is a United Church of Christ minister and pastoral psychotherapist. She is co-editor of Coming Out Young and Faithful and lives in Concord, N.H.

The phenomenon of deadly sports rioting is in the news again after violence broke out at a soccer match in Egypt. A Feb. 3, 2012, column at The Daily Beast explores the reasons that sports rioting occurs.

Dr. Ryan E. Lawrence is a psychiatrist at New York Presbyterian and is an instructor in psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. He co-authored a 2007 article in the New England Journal of Medicine about health professionals’ views on providing treatments to which they have moral objections, such as certain contraceptives. He also has written other scholarly […]

Julie Hicks Patrick is an associate professor of psychology at West Virginia University in Morgantown. She is working on a journal article that examines what adults pray and why.

Cissy Brady-Rogers is a marriage and family counselor in Arcadia, Calif., and was a contributor to The Religion of Thinness: Satisfying the Spiritual Hungers Behind Women’s Obsession With Food and Weight. She can discuss fitness, yoga, Christians practicing yoga, Christian-based weight loss, eating disorders, plastic surgery and sexuality. She can be contacted through her website.

Abdul Basit, a clinical psychologist, is assistant professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University in Chicago. A former Fulbright Scholar, he is the former editor in chief of the Journal of Muslim Mental Health and a member of the National Advisory Mental Health Council.

The Nathan Kline Institute posts guidelines for Muslim mental health services. It’s in Orangeburg, N.Y.

The Islamic Family and Social Services Association works to meet the physical and emotional needs of the Muslim community. A nonprofit charity, it provides emergency assistance, culturally sensitive counseling, refugee assistance and family programs. It’s based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Scott Atran is an adjunct professor in the psychology department at the University of Michigan and is associated with its Research Center for Group Dynamics. He can discuss jihadi movements and al-Qaeda. He is also the author of In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of American Religion (2004).