Jim FitzGerald is executive director of Call to Action USA, a Catholic social action group that pushes for equality and justice.

Rabbi Herbert Bronstein is senior scholar at North Shore Congregation Israel, a metropolitan Chicago congregation where he was senior rabbi for some 25 years. He teaches at the religion department at Lake Forest College, is nationally active in the interfaith community and formerly served on the board of the Council for a Parliament of the […]

Hands of Peace is a summer program in Glenview, Ill., that brings youth from all sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict together with American kids from Christian, Islamic and Jewish homes. The Middle Eastern teens receive year-round support to maintain connections when they return home. A trio of congregations (Jewish, Muslim and Christian) founded the camp, which […]

The Rev. Stanley L. Davis Jr. is co-executive director of the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago, as well as executive director emeritus of the Chicago and Northern Illinois Region of the National Conference for Community and Justice, now named the Chicago Center for Cultural Connections.

The Rev. John Pawlikowski is a professor of social ethics at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He is a veteran of Christian-Jewish dialogue and author of many books and essays on the topic.

Steve Masters is president of Brit Tzedek v’Shalom Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace, an American Jewish organization that, among other things, has pushed the White House, through an Internet petition drive, to get the Palestinians and Israel to negotiate. He was present for the signing of the Geneva Accord and has lived in Israel.

Ruth Haley Barton is co-founder of The Transforming Center, an organization in Wheaton, Ill., that helps develop church leaders. She teaches separate workshops on encountering God alone and in community. She is the author of Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God’s Transforming Presence (Intervarsity Press, 2004).

Peter Casarella is a professor of Catholic studies at DePaul University in Chicago. He wrote the book El Cuerpo de Cristo: The Hispanic Presence in the U.S. Catholic Church (Crossroad Publishing, 1998).

Read an essay by Karen Maudlin, a psychologist specializing in family therapy, on how to talk to children of different ages about Jesus’ crucifixion.