Sherman Hicks is executive director of multicultural ministries for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Kathryn Kahn is director of outreach for the Union for Reform Judaism. She can speak about ethnic diversity and changing demographics within American Judaism.

Paul Kim is pastor of Berkland Baptist Church, a predominantly Asian-American congregation for students and young adults in Cambridge, Mass. He also is co-chairman of the Multicultural Church Network of the Southern Baptist North American Mission Board.

Stephen Um is the senior minister of Citylife Presbyterian Church in Boston. He also is an adjunct faculty member at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and at Emerson College. Citylife, a multicultural congregation affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America, was started in 2002 as part of the network of the Redeemer Church Planting Center in New York and now has more […]

Jacqui Lewis is senior minister at Middle Collegiate Church, a multicultural, Reformed Church in America congregation in New York City. Lewis has written that multiracial and multicultural congregations “help us to rehearse the Reign of God here on earth.”

Richard Alba was a professor of race and ethnicity in the sociology department of the State University of New York at Albany. He is co-author of Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration and can speak about the impact of immigration and ethnic identity on religious life.

Jonathan Lee, son of a Korean missionary to the United States, is pastor of Holliston United Methodist Church in Pasadena, Calif. It has services in English and Korean.

Karen Ward is abbess of the Church of the Apostles, a multicultural Lutheran-Episcopal congregation in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. Apostles describes itself as a multicultural “future church with an ancient faith.”

Gregory Stock is a former director of the Program on Medicine, Technology and Society at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health. His research interests include the implications for society, medicine and business of the Human Genome Project and developments in molecular genetics and bioinformatics. His books include Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future (Houghton Mifflin, 2002), […]