Megan Sweas is the editor at the USC Center for Religion and Civil Culture, and a freelance journalist based in Los Angeles. She writes about social and economic justice issues and world religions and…
The Rev. Wil(da) Gafney, Ph.D. is the Associate Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. She is the author of Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in…
The Rev. Jesse Zink is a deacon in the Episcopal Church and author of Grace at the Garbage Dump: Making Sense of Mission in the Twenty-First Century (Cascade Press, 2012). He has traveled widely in…
Brook Wilensky-Lanford is author of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden , a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America…
John Feffer is the co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. In 2012, he is also an Open Society Fellow looking at the transformations that have taken place in…
Darron T. Smith is a commentator on issues of race whose views have been featured in forums ranging from The New York Times and Chicago Tribune to ESPN’s Outside the Lines. He is the co-author of…
Richard Schiffman is a spiritual author, poet and journalist. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor and he is a regular blogger on The…