Linell Cady is a professor of religious studies and director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University in Tempe. The center, founded in 2003, studies the conflict created when diverse religious traditions and the secular world collide.

Stephen L. Censky is chief executive officer of the American Soybean Association, which has posted its outlook for the farm bill. The association lists executive committee members from around the country.

Bruce Coriell is the chaplain at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. He has taught theory and method, multi-disciplinary approaches to the study of religion and religious communities. His focus is on the intersection between religion and the natural world, as well as the field of indigenous religious traditions.  

Marilyn J. Kurata is director of core curriculum enhancement and an associate professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She worked on a program, supported by the Ford Foundation, integrating into the curriculum a focus on race, ethnicity, religious values and place to give students a better understanding of ethics and civic […]

Cindy Brown is a photojournalist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She became a Pluralism Project affiliate in 2002 while teaching photojournalism in the journalism department at the University of Southern Mississippi. Brown worked with the Pluralism Project at Harvard University and used photography to document religious diversity in Southern Mississippi; view images from her photo essay.

The Rev. J. Wayne Clark is chaplain and director of religious life at Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. He also is president of the National Association of College and University Chaplains.

Stan Dotson is dean of LifeWorks, a civic leadership development program at Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, N.C. and founding Director of In Our Elements, an organization that provides resources to help individuals and groups contribute to a better world by doing what they love.

Michael Beaty is a philosophy professor and vice provost for faculty development at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. His focus is on Philosophy of Religion and Christian Higher Education.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, which issued a statement April 12, 2012, decrying the House Agriculture Committee’s vote to cut $33 billion from food stamps. “If there’s a more misguided, mean-spirited and counterproductive way to address decades of deficits in this country, the Mayors of the United States can’t think of one,” […]