Read the United Methodist Church’s statement on marriage and family. The site also provides links to the denomination’s statements on family, divorce and adoption, among other topics.

Read the Southern Baptist Convention’s position statement on marriage and sexuality. The site also includes marriage in a summary of the denomination’s basic beliefs.

The Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory lists and provides links to university programs in Jewish studies in the United States.

Newsweek magazine posted a Web-exclusive list of the 50 most influential rabbis in America on April 11, 2008.

Read the Catholic Encyclopedia entry on Judas.

See the National Geographic Society website on the gospel of Judas.

Stewart Shapiro is O’Donnell Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University. In his essay “Faith and Reason, the Perpetual War: Ruminations of a Fool” (included in Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life), he discusses growing up in a Jewish home and his fondness for the faith’s traditions and the intellectual aspects of […]

Edwin Curley is an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has argued that the commands and permissions that the Jewish and Christian Scriptures attribute to God make it incredible that the morally perfect being of Christian theology […]

Hector Avalos is a professor of religious studies at Iowa State University and former executive director of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion, a division of the Council for Secular Humanism. He specializes in biblical studies. His books include Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence; The End of Biblical Studies; and Se Puede Saber si Dios Existe? [Can […]