Ruth King is an insight meditation teacher and emotional wisdom author and life coach. Mentored by Jack Kornfield in the Theravada tradition and influenced by the Tibetan traditions of Buddhism, King teaches at insight meditation communities nationwide. She is a guiding teacher at Insight Meditation Community of Washington and Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the […]

The Kangyur Rinpoche Foundation was established in 1980 by Pema Wangyal Rinpoche, Gerard Godet and Peter Benson as a vehicle to perpetuate the activities of Kyabje Kangyur Rinpoche in India, Tibet and the West.

Tammy Adams is a self-described “life purpose shaman” who received mentoring from Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama. Contact is through Laura Mack.

The Rev. Haig Chahinian is chief executive officer of Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation, a Canadian media company. Chahinian grew up in Toronto as part of the Armenian Catholic Church, one of 23 sui iuris Eastern Churches in communion with the Holy See. He’s served in various Catholic broadcasting, marketing and digital media roles. […]

Phyllis Zagano is senior research associate-in-residence and professor of religion at Hofstra University. Her books include Just Church: Catholic Social Teaching, Synodality, and Women.

Discerning Deacons is an organization advocating for the diaconal ministry of women, which members view as historically, theologically and anthropologically possible and as a means of church renewal. Contacts include co-directors Casey Stanton ([email protected], English), based in North Carolina, and Ellie Hidalgo ([email protected], English and Spanish), based in Miami.

David Seljak is a professor of religion at the University of Waterloo. He studies multiculturalism in Canada and Quebec, with interests in the sociology of Canadian Catholicism.

Sarah Shortall is a historian who teaches courses on modern French history and the history of Catholicism. In addition to these themes, her research also explores the history of science, secularization theory, human rights, decolonization and the global circulation of religious ideas. She is the author of Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and […]

Tia M. Kolbaba is a religion professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She can speak to Orthodox and Catholic Christian relations.