Amy Reynolds is an assistant professor of sociology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill. She is an expert on globalization, women in leadership in the Christian world and gender studies, and she is researching women in leadership within evangelical organizations. Reynolds is the author of Free Trade and Faithful Globalization: Saving the Market.

Lobsang Tenzin Negi is the founder and director of Drepung Loseling Monastery in  Atlanta. He directs the Emory-Tibet Partnership, which focuses on Buddhist meditation and science. He is an expert on Tibetan Buddhism and meditation.

Bryan Miller is executive director of Heeding God’s Call, a grass-roots, faith-based movement to prevent gun violence. His brother was one of three law enforcement officers killed in a massacre at a police station in 1994. Miller chaired the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s panel that wrote its denominational policy on gun violence. Heeding God’s Call is based […]

Rachel Laser is the president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, an advocacy organization that seeks to reduce entanglement between the government and faith groups. She previously served as deputy director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, where she worked on social justice issues, including gun control, abortion […]

Katie Corcoran is a postdoctoral fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion. She can discuss religion, religious persecution, organizations, criminology, social movements and social networks. She is co-author of Religious Hostility: A Global Assessment of Hatred and Terror and is working on a book about megachurches.

Pamela Ayo Yetunde is a pastoral counselor in Atlanta and a graduate of Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Community Dharma Leader Program, as well as a Buddhist chaplain. She is the author of Vigil: Spiritual Reflections on Your Money and Sanity. She is an expert on Buddhist meditation.

Michael Austin is a communications consultant and Christian commentator. He is the spokesman for the Christian History Institute. Austin can discuss evolution-creationism debates, Christian persecution and the history of church-state relations. He lives in New York City.

The Southern Cross the official newspaper of the Catholic Diocese of San Diego. 

The Roman Catholic Church, established in the first century, is one of the oldest Christian traditions. One of the primary tenets of Catholicism is the belief in apostolic succession, which holds that the chosen successors of the Twelve Apostles have been granted spiritual authority passed down through the ages from Jesus Christ. This chain of […]