Heather Hendershot is professor of film and media at MIT. She wrote Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2004).

Walden Media co-produced The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. With U.S. box office receipts of $292 million, the film adaptation of the fantasy novel by Christian apologist C.S. Lewis was the second-highest-grossing film in 2005. Walden brought the sequel, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, to the screen in 2008. The company specializes in […]

D. Michael Lindsay is a sociologist and the president of Gordon College, a Christian school in Wenham, Mass. His focus is on issues surrounding leadership, organizations and culture. He is a former Gallup consultant with an expertise on research about evangelicals. Lindsay is author of the 2007 book Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the […]

Peter Kuzmic is the Eva B. and Paul E. Toms Distinguished Professor of World Missions and European Studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass. He can comment on a range of issues related to evangelicalism.

Read an April 1, 2013 article about the close, but not fused, relationship of Evangelical Christians with conservative politics.

Catherine Cornille is a professor of theology at Boston College. Her research interests focus on the Theology of Religions, the theory of Interreligious Dialogue, concrete questions in the Hindu-Christian and Buddhist-Christian dialogues, and the phenomenon of inculturation and intercultural theology. She wrote about Mother Meera in The Graceful Guru: Hindu Female Gurus in India and the United States […]

Christina Bain runs the Initiative on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at the Babson Social Innovation Lab at Babson College in Babson Park, Mass.

Diana L. Eck is a professor emerita of comparative religion and Indian studies at Harvard University. Eck retired from active teaching duties in 2024 and is now working as a research professor. She was also director of Harvard’s Pluralism Project, which explores the religious diversity of the U.S. 

Lawrence A. Babb is a professor in the department of anthropology and sociology at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass. He teaches a course on religions in South Asia and has studied Hinduism as practiced in India. He has also written about modern interpretations of Hinduism.