News Sources: Episcopalian-Anglican Accord

In an overwhelming vote, the bishops of the U.S. Episcopal Church have taken steps to head off schism in the worldwide Anglican community and to shore up unity within the American church. At the close of a six-day meeting in New Orleans, they promised to "exercise restraint" by not consecrating more gay bishops or authorizing rites for the blessing of same-sex unions. Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, including (click on names for contact information):

William C. Placher -Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Wabash College - Placher is recognized as one of the great contemporary theologians. He is the author of The Domestication of Transcendence: Where Modern Thinking About God Went Wrong and A History of Christian Theology. He was a member of the committees to draft a statement of reform and a new catechism for the Presbyterian Church, USA in 1983.

Eric Michael Mazur - Associate professor of religion, Bucknell University - Mazur is the author of author of The Americanization of Religious Minorities: Confronting the Constitutional Order and a contributing co-editor of God in the Details: American Religion in Popular Culture. He co-chairs the Church-State Studies Group of the American Academy of Religion and serves on the editorial board of the on-line Journal of Religion and Popular Culture.

David Wulff - Professor of Psychology, Wheaton College - Wulff is an expert on the psychology of religion and the author of Psychology of Religion, Classic and Contemporary, now in its second edition. He is the book review editor for the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and president of Division 36, Psychology of Religion, of the American Psychological Association.