Michael Pasquier is an associate professor of philosophy and religion at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where he specializes in the history of religion and culture in the U.S. He teaches courses on religion and cinema, religion in Louisiana and religion in Southern culture, as well as a course on American Catholicism.

Bill Jacobs is co-founder and president of the St. Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Conservation Center in Wading River, N.Y. He also is the senior ecologist with GEI Consultants in New York City.

Walter Grazer is a Washington-based consultant for the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, the Evangelical Environmental Network and the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life. He served as director of the Environmental Justice Program for the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops from 1993 to 2007. Grazer is the author of Catholics Going Green: A Small […]

Daniel Scheid is an assistant professor of theology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He teaches classes on Christian social ethics.

Tobias Winwright serves as an associate professor of health care ethics and is an associate professor of theological ethics at St. Louis University. He is a Roman Catholic moral theologian who has co-authored After the Smoke Clears: The Just War Tradition and Post War Justice, and he edited Green Discipleship: Catholic Theological Ethics and the Environment.

Alex Mikulich is an assistant professor of Catholic social thought at the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University in New Orleans. He is a Roman Catholic theologian and social ethicist who focuses on race. He is a contributing author to The Scandal of White Complicity in U.S. Hyper-incarceration: A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance.

David Cloutier is on the theology faculty at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Md., where he teaches courses on moral theology, Catholic social ethics, and marriage and sexual ethics. He is the author of Walking God’s Earth: The Environment and Catholic Faith and Love, Reason and God’s Story: An Introduction to Catholic Sexual Ethics.

Nancy Sylvester is founder and president of the Institute for Communal Contemplation and Dialogue, a Catholic nonprofit in Detroit, Mich. that seeks to “educate, resource and organize people of faith to reflect, analyze and act on the critical issues of church and society.” She is a sister with the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and […]

Lonnie Ellis is associate director at Catholic Climate Covenant, a Washington-based nonprofit devoted to mobilizing Catholics to fight climate change. He worked previously for the Franciscan Action Network and is a lay Franciscan.