Kenji Kuramitsu is an Episcopal priest and writer who reflects on liturgy, identity and everyday spiritual practice, often from an Asian American perspective.

Esau McCaulley is a professor of theology at Wheaton College who writes on race, the Bible and public life, bringing Black church traditions into conversation with questions of democracy and the meaning of America.

Kaitlyn Schiess is an evangelical theologian and writer focusing on political theology, church life and generational shifts within American Christianity. She is the author of The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture has been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here (Brazos Press, 2023) and The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual […]

Andrew DeCort is a theologian, writer and ethicist. He is the author of Reviving the Golden Rule and Blessed Are the Others and founder of the Institute for Faith and Flourishing.

David Kovacs is a founder of the Interfaith Family School, Chicago.

Rabbi Ari Moffic is director of youth and teen experiences and the Cohen Kadima Program at Mishkan Chicago. She was the founding director of InterfaithFamily/Chicago (now 18Doors).

Khalil Andani is a religion professor at Augustana College in Illinois. His research focuses on Quranic studies, Islamic intellectual history, Shiite Islam and Sufism. In particular, he is an expert on Shiite Ismaili perspectives, Islamic history and thought, Islamic ethics and Christian-Muslim interactions.

The Lutheran Education Association is a national network of Lutheran educators, which trains, assists and offers support to its members through conferences and other resources. Jonathan Laabs is executive director.

Gwendolyn Gillson researches at the intersection of anthropology of religion, East Asian studies and gender studies. Her work at Illinois College broadly examines how women craft their experiences of Buddhism to deal with the loneliness endemic to the dissolution of traditional Japanese social structures brought about by urbanization and globalization.