Katherine Kelaidis is an independent scholar who writes about religion and politics for Religion Dispatches and about Orthodoxy for Public Orthodoxy. She has written about the connection between U.S. white supremacists and Orthodox Christianity.

Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and the author of multiple books on science, technology and the future. In a Feb. 3, 2017, story in The Atlantic about AI and Christianity, Kelly said, “If you create other things that think for themselves, a serious theological disruption will occur.” Kelly has written […]

The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, which has 70,000 Episcopalians in 136 neighborhood congregations and mission centers, is historically one of the five most populous and culturally diverse of the Episcopal Church’s 109 dioceses. In 2016, its members voted to become a sanctuary diocese. Its Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Service offers services and assistance throughout […]

The Rev. Bryan Pham is an assistant professor in the department of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He practices immigration law at Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic and is the chaplain to Loyola Law School.

Colin Stewart runs the Erasing 76 Crimes blog, which focuses on the human toll of more than 70 countries’ anti-LGBTI laws and local struggles to repeal them.

The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries aims to support religious teachers and laity in moving toward a theology of radical inclusivity led by an equally radical social ministry, reaching to the furthest margins of society to serve all in need without prejudice or discrimination. Contact Bishop Joseph Tolton.

Jonathan Greenblatt is the CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League, a civil rights watchdog organization with Jewish roots.

Angela Larian is an artist in Los Angeles who bases some of her work on the works of the Sufi poet Rumi and Zoroastrianism. Her latest series, “Khoda,” the Persian word for God, is currently being exhibited in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Contact through the Make Agency.

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.