Kevin M. Nye is a writer and advocate based in Minneapolis, where he works as housing director at an organization addressing youth homelessness. He has written on faith and homelessness for RNS, Sojourners and Red Letter Christians. He is the author of Grace Can Lead Us Home: A Christian Call to End Homelessness.

The Faith in Affordable Housing project works with churches of all denominations in England and Wales to release surplus land or redundant buildings for the development of new social and genuinely affordable homes.

Found House Interfaith Housing Network provides emergency shelter and housing programs for homeless families in Cincinnati and surrounding areas. Stacey Hall Burge is chief executive officer.

SecularHelp, also known as Secular Helping People Alliance, was founded with the mission of empowering people to find purpose and meaning free from the influence of religious, supernatural or pseudo-scientific beliefs. It offers secular meditation, legacy counseling and, through its Helping the Homeless program, direct, practical support to individuals experiencing homelessness. The president and executive […]

Ariel Salzmann is a history professor at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. Her research includes histories of Mediterranean communities and Muslim societies, the transformation of market systems and the making of global capitalism, as well as Islamophobia and Catholic-Muslim relations.

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James S. Bielo is associate professor in the department of religious studies at Northwestern University. He specializes in the anthropological study of religion, Christianity, American religion and the study of material religion.

Sergio M. González is Assistant Professor of History at Marquette University. A historian of twentieth-century U.S. migration, labor, and religion, his scholarship focuses on the development of Latino communities in the U.S. Midwest. He is the author of Mexicans in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2017) and the co-editor of Faith and Power: Latino Religious […]

Kelly Ryan is president of Jesuit Refugee Service/USA, which operates in 58 countries, serving refugees and other forcibly displaced persons in conflict zones and detention centers, on remote borders and in busy cities. Ryan is also a board member of the Inter-American Foundation and former adviser to the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. […]