Kittredge Cherry is a Los Angeles-based Christian author, minister and art historian who runs a blog called Jesus in Love that focuses on LGBTQ issues as they are expressed in religious art. She is the author of Art That Dares: Gay Jesus, Woman Christ and More.

Cameron Anderson is executive director of Christians in the Visual Arts in Madison, Wis., and author of The Faithful Artist: A Vision for Evangelicalism and the Arts.

Sunhee Joo is a Los Angeles-based educator and artist with an interest in biblical stories, people and nature. She has said Jesus, Mary, Joseph and Mary Magdalene are her “beloved characters.”

Elizabeth Zeller is a sculptor and art consultant with the Zeller Arts Studio, as well as the director of the Contemporary Religious Arts Association in Kansas City, Kan. Much of her work takes Christian themes as its subject and she works in sculpture, iconography and pastels.

Joanna Reiling Lindell is the curator of Thrivent Financial’s 1,100-piece collection of religious art in Minneapolis. Thrivent routinely exhibits pieces from its collection in the company’s Minneapolis office.

The Contemporary Religious Artists Association is an organization of professional artists who take religion as their subject. Its members are painters, sculptors, musicians and writers who “seek God with heart and mind, and to glorify God through our artistic work.” The group was founded in response to St. John Paul II’s 1999 appeal to artists to […]

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell is a writer, poet and professor of English, creative writing and American Catholic studies at Fordham University in New York City. She serves as associate director of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. She has written about the intersection of religion and popular music, especially in the work of Bruce Springsteen and […]

Roy Brooks is a a Ph.D. candidate in theater and performance studies with a specialization in Christianity and theater at the University of Georgia in Athens. He specializes in medieval theater, performance art and queer Catholic imagery.

David Morgan is a professor of religious studies with a secondary appointment in art history and visual studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He is an expert in the history of religious visual culture, art history, and religion and media. He is the author of The Forge of Vision: A Visual History of Modern […]