This ReligionLink guide offers background, relevant newswriting, expert sources and related content for you to explore the varieties of religious futurism.

Grace Dillon is an Anishinaabe academic and author. She is a professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies Program at Portland State University and coined the term Indigenous Futurisms.

In this guide, we provide background, tips and suggestions, newswriting for context and experts and sources for you to turn to as you ramp up your coverage of religion and the 2026 midterms.

Yasmin Moll is ama cultural anthropologist of the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Michigan. Her research spans the intersections of religion, media, youth and politics as well as questions of race, indigeneity and heritage activism in the region.

Lisa Dellinger (Chickasaw Nation) is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor of Constructive Theologies and Louisville Postdoctoral Fellow at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Tinker Visitin Professor at Iliff School of Theology. She writes and teaches at the intersection of Christianity and Indigenous experience, bringing attention to Native identity, colonial history and the complexities […]

Glenn Loury is a prominent economist and public intellectual who engages questions of race, morality and American identity, often drawing on religious and ethical frameworks. While not a religion specialist, he is a voice for stories about the nation’s moral imagination, civic life and the role of faith values in shaping public debate.

Philip P. Arnold is president of the Indigenous Values Initiative of the leadership of the Onondaga Nation, the Central Fire (or Capital) of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (made up of the Seneca, Tuscarora, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Mohawk nations). He also leads the The Doctrine of Discovery educational resource, is lovingly maintained by Indigenous Values Initiative […]

This guide offers reporters the tools to navigate the topic of religious persecution at home and abroad, offering background, resources, tips, suggestions and expert sources for your next story.

Teresa Flores is a Peruvian lawyer and director of the Observatory of Religious Freedom in Latin America (OLIRE), based in the Netherlands.