In this edition of ReligionLink, we offer background, tips, related stories and relevant sources for you to better understand, appreciate and report on interfaith relationships, families and love.

Rabbi Ari Moffic is director of youth and teen experiences and the Cohen Kadima Program at Mishkan Chicago. She was the founding director of InterfaithFamily/Chicago (now 18Doors).

Tanya Sadagopan is a minister at First Congregational UCC in Janesville, Wisconsin. She has written about multicultural interfaith couples and the role conflict and tension play within interfaith families.

Keren R. McGinity is an educator-activist who specializes in Jewish intermarriage and gender roles. She was the interfaith specialist at the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and is also affiliated with the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and teaches American studies at Brandeis University. She was the founding director of the Interfaith Families Jewish Engagement program at Hebrew […]

Bethany Mandel is a conservative Jewish columnist, political and cultural commentator and co-author of Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation. She has been a vocal critic of the multifaith family movement.

Lama Rod Owens is a self-described “Black Buddhist Southern Queen.” Owens holds a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist studies from Harvard Divinity School with a focus on the intersection of social change, identity and spiritual practice. Owens is also author of The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors and Love and Rage: […]

Phyllis Zagano is senior research associate-in-residence and professor of religion at Hofstra University. Her books include Just Church: Catholic Social Teaching, Synodality, and Women.

Discerning Deacons is an organization advocating for the diaconal ministry of women, which members view as historically, theologically and anthropologically possible and as a means of church renewal. Contacts include co-directors Casey Stanton ([email protected], English), based in North Carolina, and Ellie Hidalgo ([email protected], English and Spanish), based in Miami.

Anna Peterson is a professor in the department of religion at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on religion and social change, especially Catholicism in Latin America; environmental and social ethics; and animal studies. She has published a number of articles, chapters and book in these areas. Her current research analyzes the role of […]