Jeffrey Howard Mahan is a professor of religion and communication at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver. He is the author of Media, Religion and Culture: An Introduction and Religion and Popular Culture in America.

Robert K. Johnston is a professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., and an expert on film and faith who has written Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue (Baker Book House, 2000). He was director of Fuller’s Brehm Center’s Reel Spirituality Institute for Moving Images.

Linda Seger has a master’s degree in religion and the arts and is a Hollywood script consultant who has consulted on more than 2,000 projects, including more than 30 produced television projects and 50 completed feature films. She has been a keynote speaker at conferences on religion and the media and is a recipient of a […]

Suzanne Holland is a professor in the department of religion at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash. She has written about television and radio as public confessionals in the shows of Judge Judy and Dr. Laura.

Michael Suman is a communications lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, and editor of Religion and Prime Time Television (Praeger Publishers, 1997).

Read a Nov. 22, 2012 Huffington Post story about the health benefits of gratitude.

Read a Nov. 21, 2011, article in the New York Times about gratitude and Thanksgiving.

Read Gregg Easterbrook’s Beliefnet column on gratitude research.

Scot McKnight is Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in Lombard, Ill. He specializes in films about Jesus and the Orthodox faith. He wrote The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others (Paraclete Press, 2004) and is Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University in Chicago. He is co-editor, along with James D.G. Dunn, emeritus […]