Sikivu Hutchinson is an author and cultural critic who writes about Black freethinkers, atheism and religion’s role in race and gender politics, offering a perspective often missing from mainstream faith coverage. Contact through her website.

Dale McGowan is a podcast creator and producer, professor of music, philanthropist and author of eight books on nonreligious life, including In Faith and In Doubt: How Religious Believers and Nonbelievers Can Create Strong Marriages and Loving Families.

SecularHelp, also known as Secular Helping People Alliance, was founded with the mission of empowering people to find purpose and meaning free from the influence of religious, supernatural or pseudo-scientific beliefs. It offers secular meditation, legacy counseling and, through its Helping the Homeless program, direct, practical support to individuals experiencing homelessness. The president and executive […]

Susannah Crockford is a lecturer in anthropology at Exeter University, specializing in environmental and medical anthropology and the anthropology of religion. Her first book, Ripples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona, deals with issues related to the politics and economics of wellness, health and spirituality. She is working on a second book, a multi-sited […]

Sam Kestenbaum is a journalist covering religion in America. He has written about religious life during and in response to the pandemic, including a profile of Clay Clark, the frontman of a prophecy-and-politics roadshow; New Age author Christiane Northrup’s conspiracy makeover; a faith-healing TikToker whose fandom grew during lockdown months; and a Pentecostal church that […]

Jacques Berlinerblau is professor of Jewish civilization in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His books include Secularism: The Basics, and he has written numerous other books and scholarly articles on the topic. Berlinerblau can be reached via email or through his publicist, Kelly Hughes.

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 […]

Joanna Malone is a research coordinator at the LASAR (Learning About Science and Religion) research team at Canterbury Christ Church University. Her doctoral research focused on the experiences, understandings and significance of nonbelief for older adults in the U.K. Her research interests include belief and nonbelief, nonreligion and aging. Malone is co-deputy editor of the […]

Lynne Marks is a professor of history at the University of Victoria (Canada). She is an expert in North American religions and has written on maternity, irreligion, working-class women and lived religion in English-speaking Canada and the United States.