Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen wrote Love in Black and White: A Memoir of Race, Religion and Romance with his wife, Janet Langhart. Cohen is white and the son of a Jewish father and a Protestant Irish mother, while Langhart is African-American and the daughter of a Southern Baptist mother, a single parent. Contact […]

Stephanie Hixon is executive director of the JustPeace Center for Mediation and Conflict Transformation, a United Methodist center for conflict resolution. Established in 2000, JustPeace trains people in conflict transformation and restorative justice.

Elaine Enns has been a trainer and consultant on restorative justice for almost two decades. She is part of Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries in Oak View, Calif.

A study by USC surveyed 20,000 white Christians and found that  “members of religious congregations tend to harbor prejudiced views of other races.”

Read a Pew Forum poll on Asian Americans and the diversity of their faiths.

Keith Ward is an ordained Anglican priest and a senior fellow at the Metanexus Institute, where he gives frequent public lectures on the subject of science and religion. Topics have included “Has Science Made Belief in God Obsolete?” and “Can the Cruelty and Waste of Evolution Be Reconciled With Creation by a Good God?”

Pew Forum maintains a page dedicated to polls on religion and race.

Robert Pollack is a professor of biological sciences at Columbia University in New York City. He is the author of The Faith of Biology & the Biology of Faith and was part of an online panel that discussed the conflict between religion and evolution for the PBS series Evolution.

Thomas Nagel is a professor of law and philosophy at New York University who has written a paper describing the constitutionality of “mentioning” intelligent design in science classes. He has described himself as an atheist.