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.

Kenny Jahng is editor-in-chief at ChurchTechToday.com. He’s also the founder of AIforChurchLeaders.com and ChurchGrowthWorkshops.com. He’s served as church online pastor at one of Outreach Magazine‘s Top 100 Fastest Growing Churches in America. Jahng is also CEO of Big Click Syndicate, a strategic marketing advisory firm helping Christian leaders build digital engagement engines that work.

Scott Evans is founder and CEO of Outreach Inc., which owns and operates a range of physical and digital products, including church marketing tools, worship and sermon content, media and editorial, a speaker’s bureau, print products and publishing, and Christian interest content. These include Outreach.com, Outreach Magazine, SermonCentral.com, ChurchLeaders.com, Sermons4Kids.com and Sermon.ai.

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 […]

Rhona Trauvitch is an English professor at Florida International University. Trauvitch specializes in intersections of literature and science — those that manifest in science fiction, and those that enable fiction-science (or, “fi-sci”) pattern mapping.

Sheila Briggs is a theology professor at the University of Southern California and an expert on the Jewish Torah in the writings of Paul. Other projects include analysis of contemporary popular culture, such as how the AI genre intersects with religion in American popular culture, as well as Roman Catholicism, feminist theology and gender, race, […]