Aisha Hauser is a religious educator, facilitator and social justice advocate who works at the Starr King School for the Ministry and for the Unitarian Universalist Association as children and families program director.

Samira K. Mehta is an associate professor of women and gender studies and the director of Jewish studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections of religion, culture and gender, including the politics of family life and reproduction in the United States. Her first book was Beyond Chrismukkah: […]

Francesco Cerchiaro is assistant professor in the gender and diversity department at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He researched how Christian-Muslim families navigate cultural diversity.

Tanya Sadagopan is a minister at First Congregational UCC in Janesville, Wisconsin. She has written about multicultural interfaith couples and the role conflict and tension play within interfaith families.

The Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington is an independent community of interfaith families committed to sharing, learning about and celebrating Jewish and Christian traditions in the greater Washington, D.C., area.

Dalia El Ariny researches the intersection of multiple identities in interfaith families. Born into an Italian-Egyptian, Catholic Muslim family, El Ariny’s research focuses on the everyday experiences of mixed-faith families in London. She is also the founder of My Mixed Heritage, a welcoming social space for individuals with mixed-faith backgrounds to connect, share experiences and […]

Philip Butler is a professor at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. Butler’s work focuses on the intersections of neuroscience, technology, spirituality and Blackness. He engages in critical and constructive analysis on Black posthumanism, artificial intelligence and pluriversal future realities.

Catherine Hezser is a professor of Jewish studies at SOAS in London. Hezser has examined the ways in which ancient Jews and Christians imagined outer space, the heavens and their occupants and space travel, distinguishing between but also linking this world to another, higher sphere.

The Vatican Observatory (Specola Vaticana) is an astronomical research and educational institution supported by the Vatican. Originally based in Rome, the Observatory is now headquartered in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, and at the Mount Graham International Observatory in the Pinaleño Mountains in southeast Arizona. Journalists can contact via the email here or direct questions to individual […]