Saeed Khan is a professor teaching in Near Eastern Studies at Wayne State University. He argued in 2023 that caught between the competing narratives of ever increasing toxicity in the culture wars, Muslims need to be wary of the pitfalls of choosing sides ahead of the elections.

Asra Nomani is an Indian American journalist and Federalist contributor, who — among other things — is outspoken in opposing critical race theory and gender diversity in education, which she has described as divisive ideologies.

Global Refuge — formerly Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service — offers refugee resettlement, immigrant legal aid and  inclusion programs, asylum assistance, mental health services for migrants, crisis response and advocacy on behalf of American newcomers. Krish O’Mara Vignarajah is president and CEO.

Throughout 2024 — and, really, any time politics are in the news, which is always — we will see familiar narratives about what religious voters are doing. Pundits will ask who they are backing and why, what messaging and issues mobilize them. What will emerge is a version of events that conflates political conservatism with […]

Michael Salemink is executive director of Lutherans for Life, a nonprofit that organizes Lutherans to advocate for issues concerning the “sanctity of life.”

This Source Guide provides best practices for reporting on religion and AI, with a focus on background, related stories, sources and relevant resources for reporting on how it is already impacting the everyday realities of our spiritual lives.

Holly Walters is an anthropologist at Wellesley College whose work focuses on pilgrimage and politics in the Nepal Himalayas, as well as material culture, divine personhood and ritual practice in South Asia. Her current research addresses the roles of sacred landscapes and digital religious revival in the relationships between Hindus, Buddhists and Bonpos who venerate […]

Pauline Hope Cheong is a professor at Arizona State University. Her research interests are in the complex interactions between communication technologies and different cultural communities around the world — including the socio-cultural implications of artificial intelligence, robotics and big data.

In this edition of ReligionLink we provide background, resources, related stories and expert sources for journalists writing on the numerous intersections between what we eat and what we believe.