Josh Brecheen is an Oklahoma State Senator who has sponsored several science education bills deemed by some as evolution work-arounds. In January 2016, he was the sole sponsor of SB1322, the “Oklahoma Science Education Act” that would allow teachers to teach evolution as a “controversial” theory — something the majority of scientists say it is […]

Robyn Blumner is the executive director of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science and the incoming CEO of Center for Inquiry. She is an expert on First Amendment issues involving freedom of expression, including religion. She can discuss matters pertaining to Center for Inquiry, which promotes secularism and reason, and is an advocate […]

Ann Neumann is the author of  The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America, which is on aid-in-dying issues and religion.

Michael Dodds is a professor of philosophy and theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif. He researches the philosophy of nature, God and suffering, and science and religion.

Why do all the world’s religions emphasize giving thanks? What are the spiritual benefits of giving thanks? The physical benefits?

Ruqayya Khan is an associate professor of religion at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif. She is an expert on women in Islam and Islam in the digital age. She teaches courses on feminism in the Quran and Islam and environmentalism.

Evelyn Ojeda-Fox is the founder of the Peaceful Birth Project and has written and taught about making birth a spiritual experience. She is based in Dunedin, Fla.

Marianne Littlejohn is  a nurse and midwife who promotes and teaches the idea of spiritual births. She teaches a spiritual birth workshop and classes at the Spiritual Birth Centre in Cape Town, South Africa.

Laura Paskell-Brown is a member of the Young Leaders Council at Women of Spirit and Faith. She blends social activism with spirituality and created a women’s circle at Occupy Wall Street. She can address issues involving women’s spirituality, the spirituality of birth and motherhood, and women’s sacred spaces. She is a birth doula in San […]