Kathleen McChesney is a leadership consultant with Kinsale Management Consulting. She previously worked for the FBI and led the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Office of Child Protection. She is the co-editor of Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: A Decade of Crisis, 2002-2012. Contact her through her organization’s website.

Matthew Soerens is the U.S. director of church mobilization for World Relief and national coordinator for Evangelical Immigration Table. He is the the co-author of Seeking Refuge: On the Shores of the Global Refugee Crisis and Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate.

Angie Thurston is a ministry innovation fellow at Harvard Divinity School. She is also co-author of “How We Gather,” a report on how people find community in the modern world.

Casper ter Kuile is a ministry innovation fellow at Harvard Divinity School. He studies innovation within secular and sacred communities and co-authored “How We Gather,” a report on where millennials find belonging. He’s also co-host of the podcast “Harry Potter and the Sacred Text.”

Hebah Farrag is grants and impact assessment manager at Legal Aid at Work. Farrag is the former assistant director of research at the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture, where she managed projects such as the Spiritual Exemplars project, a global initiative on engaged spirituality, which is tasked with collecting 100 […]

Tara Isabella Burton is a religion columnist, theologian and novelist. She’s currently working on a book about religious “nones” and has written about the intersections of technology and spirituality.