The Gamaliel Foundation describes itself as a nonpartisan, faith-based organizing network of 72 affiliates in 26 U.S. states and five provinces of South Africa. The foundation is a leading advocacy group for comprehensive immigration reform.

The Rev. Gilberto Cavazos-González, a Friar Minor (Franciscan), is associate professor of spirituality and directs the Hispanic ministry program at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. He writes a weekly column on Hispanic/Latino faith traditions.

Daniel A. Arnold is assistant professor of philosophy of religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is the author of Buddhists, Brahmins and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religion.

Michael T. Shelley is the director of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago’s Center of Christian-Muslim Engagement for Peace and Justice.

Peter T. Cha is associate professor of pastoral theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Ill., and co-author of Following Jesus Without Dishonoring Your Parents: Asian American Discipleship (InterVarsity Press, 1998). He also co-edited Growing Healthy Asian American Churches (IVP, 2006).

R. Stephen Warner, a sociology professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and co-editor of Korean Americans and Their Religions: Pilgrims and Missionaries from a Different Shore (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001).

The Rev. Antje Jackelén is archbishop of the Church of Sweden and is an adjunct professor of systematic theology/religion and science at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. She is president of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology and is a former director of the Zygon Center for Religion and Science, which brings together […]

Vikram Amar is a professor of law at the University of Illinois College of Law and an expert on constitutional law.

The Islamic Cultural Center of Greater Chicago in Northbrook, Ill., was founded in 1974 by Bosnian Muslims. Its mission is to conduct services in accordance with the faith of Islam and to educate its members and children.