The Vatican Observatory (Specola Vaticana) is an astronomical research and educational institution supported by the Vatican. Originally based in Rome, the Observatory is now headquartered in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, and at the Mount Graham International Observatory in the Pinaleño Mountains in southeast Arizona. Journalists can contact via the email here or direct questions to individual […]

Jaimie Gunderson is a religious studies professor at the University of Pittsburgh, whose research interests include Christian origins, Christianity in late antiquity, New Testament, Greco-Roman religions, material religion, affect theory and UFOs.

Mary-Jane Rubenstein writes about the mythological assumptions beneath contemporary science and philosophy. She teaches religion and science studies at Wesleyan University and is the author of Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race.

Stephen “Cue” Jn-Marie is a former Virgin Records rapper, turned evangelist, activist and organizer, who left the music industry in 1994 to become a pastor. He is founder of the Row —  also known as “the Church Without Walls”, or as some of our parishioners like to call it, “the Street Church” — in Los Angeles’ […]

Najuma Smith-Pollard is Assistant Director of Community and Public Engagement with the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture. She is also a pastor, community activist and program lead for the Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement, which is housed at CRCC.

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 National Alliance to End Homelessness is a Washington, D.C.-based nonpartisan, nonprofit organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States. Its website also has regularly updated statistics and information on homelessness in America.

Chelsea Langston Bombino is a program officer with the Fetzer Institute and a fellow with the Center for Public Justice. She has written on the intersection of religious freedom and homelessness. She is also a contributing writer for Religion Unplugged and contributing author to Breaking Ground: Chartering Our Future in a Pandemic Year and The Routledge Handbook of Religious […]

Kevin M. Nye is a writer and advocate based in Minneapolis, where he works as housing director at an organization addressing youth homelessness. He has written on faith and homelessness for RNS, Sojourners and Red Letter Christians. He is the author of Grace Can Lead Us Home: A Christian Call to End Homelessness.