The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez is president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. He has criticized conservative evangelicals who have spoken against or have remained silent on immigration and argued that the August 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, was driven, in part, by anti-immigrant rhetoric. Arrange an interview through the Kairos Co.

Karen Torjesen, professor of Women’s Studies in Religion and early Christianity, is dean at the school of religion at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, Calif.

Allan Figueroa Deck is a lecturer of pastoral studies in Spanish at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He has commented on the importance of Hispanics to the Catholic Church in the United States.

Gastón Espinosa, assistant professor of religious studies at Claremont McKenna College in California, specializes in Latino religion and politics.

Ian F. Haney-López is the John H. Boalt Professor of Law at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law. An expert on race relations and law, he is the author of Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice (Belknap/Harvard, 2003).

Edward J. Larson is a professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, Calif. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of several books dealing with the controversy of evolution versus creationism, including Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution and Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over […]

Bruce Grelle, a professor of religious studies at California State University, Chico, directs the Religion and Public Education Project, which provides general information about the ethical, legal, and educational issues that arise in connection with the topic of religion and public education.

Steven Leder is a Reform rabbi at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. He is the author of More Money Than God: Living a Rich Life Without Losing Your Soul (Bonus Books, 2004). Contact via Nan Brostoff.

Michael Scott Horton is a professor of systematic theology and apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary in Escondido, Calif. He has called prosperity gospel a “wild and wacky theology.”