Michael Hout is director of the Center for Advanced Social Science Research at New York University, where he also teaches sociology. He has studied and written on the rise of the nonreligious and is the author or co-author of multiple books, including Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years.

Bethamie Horowitz is co-director of the programs in education and Jewish studies at New York University. She also has a research and consulting practice and has spent the last two decades tracking major issues facing the Jewish community.

Conrad Hackett is Pew Research Center’s associate director of research and senior demographer. Contact him through Anna Schiller.

Daniel Cox is director of the Survey Center on American Life and a senior fellow in polling and public opinion with American Enterprise Institute. He previously served as research director for Public Religion Research Institute.

Rebecca Catto is an assistant professor of sociology at Kent State University in Ohio. She studies the interplay between religion and secularism in North America and Europe.

The Rev. Randy Wall is senior pastor of New Covenant United Methodist Church in Mount Holly, N.C. He’s also the chairman of United Methodist Rural Advocates, a group that advocates on behalf of rural and small-membership churches within the denomination.

The Rev. Althea Spencer-Miller is an assistant professor of New Testament at Drew University Theological School and a United Methodist pastor.

The Rev. Alex da Silva Souto is pastor of New Milford United Methodist Church in New Milford, Conn. He is one of the authors of the Simple Plan, a plan for the future of the United Methodist Church that would involve eliminating all restrictions on LGBTQ clergy and church members from the denomination’s guiding documents. […]