Luke Beck Kreider is assistant professor of religion and sustainability at the Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College in Indiana. His research expertise focuses on the moral, religious and cultural dimensions of environmental issues, and his teaching spans the fields of environmental studies, religion, ethics and peace studies.

Timothy Stacey examines what he calls “spirited” elements in inspiring people to take political and ecological action: myth, ritual, drama, magic, tradition and play.

Julia Duin is a religion, travel, education and mental health journalist and author who has been on staff with five newspapers, including the Washington Times and the Houston Chronicle. Most recently, she was the contributing editor/religion for Newsweek. In recent years, she has helped pioneer reporting on “Arctic religion.”

Cynthia Miller-Idriss is the founding director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab at American University. Miller-Idriss regularly testifies before the U.S. Congress or briefs policy, security, education and intelligence agencies in the U.S., the United Nations and other countries on trends in domestic violent extremism and strategies for prevention and disengagement. To […]

Andrew DeCort is a theologian, writer and ethicist. He is the author of Reviving the Golden Rule and Blessed Are the Others and founder of the Institute for Faith and Flourishing.

Gionathan Lo Mascolo is a Berlin-based political adviser with a focus on democracy, extremism and religion. He is editor of the volume The Christian Right in Europe.

Neil Datta leads the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights. Based in Brussels, the EPF is a network of Members of Parliament throughout Europe advocating for sexual and reproductive rights in Europe and abroad.

Terje Østebø is a professor at the University of Florida. His research interests are on Islam in contemporary Ethiopia, Islam, politics, and Islamic reformism in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, Salafism in Africa and Christian-Muslim relations.

Lex Rofeberg is a rabbi, as well as founder Judaism Unbound and the UnYeshiva, who is in an interfaith marriage and often speaks on this topic.