Dr. Catherine (“Katie”) Hoegeman is a coauthor on a recently published work, “Congregational Political Activity and Same-Sex Marriage: Social Movement Theory and Evidence for Contextual Influence” in the journal The Sociological Quarterly (Vol. 55, 2014, 555-586). Using a unique, national data set collected just after the 2008 presidential election, they explore how the organizational environment influences church congregations’ political activity related to gay marriage. This research has important implications for the role of groups and organizations in forming actions and behaviors of individuals in the community. Their findings suggest that role of churches in the development of support for such ballot initiatives is very complex and involves multiple dimensions of social life, specifically the broader organizational context, that are not very well researched in social movement theory.