Mucahit Bilici is an assistant professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is the author of Finding Mecca in America and a columnist for Taraf, a daily publication in Turkish.

Mary Evelyn Tucker is a senior lecturer and research scholar at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Divinity School and department of religious studies. She also directs the Forum on Religion and Ecology with her husband, John Grim.

Margaret Farley is professor emerita of Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School. Her scholarship and research includes ethical methodology, medical ethics, sexual ethics, social ethics, historical theological ethics, ethics and spirituality, justice and HIV/AIDS. In April 2015, she took part in a panel discussion hosted by the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies titled “Pope Francis […]

Peter Crane is the Dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Professor of Botany at Yale University. His scholarship and research centers on plant diversity, the origin and fossil history of plants, their current status, and conservation and use, according to the School’s website. He recently took part in a panel discussion hosted by the School of […]

Maureen Mullarkey is a painter and writer who focuses on art and culture. She has been published in The Nation, Crisis, Commonweal, Hudson Review, Arts, The New Criterion, First Things, The Weekly Standard, and The Magazine Antiques, and she has served as a columnist for The New York Sun. She was quoted in a New York Times article about Pope Francis’ climate change […]

Rabbi Menachem Creditor is the spiritual leader of Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley, Calif. He is also an author, musician, teacher, and activist, and he has worked in Ghana and in the White House. He writes for the Huffington Post and the Times of Israel and blogs at menachemcreditor.org.

Brian Bantum is an associate professor of Theology at Seattle Pacific University. His research focuses on race and religion, and theology and identity. He contributed a “preaching reflection” about the death of Michael Brown to Odyssey Networks.  

The Rev. Dr. Karyn Wiseman is an associate professor of Homiletics at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. She blogs, and she also contributed a “preaching reflection” about the death of Michael Brown to Odyssey Networks.