Sharon Feiman-Nemser is a professor of Jewish education at Brandeis University and director of the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. She says Jews need to find ways to help unaffiliated and disaffected Jews discover meaning in the faith. A major challenge, she says, will be to ascertain ways to make this ancient faith […]

Sylvia Barack Fishman is a professor of contemporary Jewish life at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., and co-director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, which focuses on women in contemporary Judaism. She is the author of numerous books, including Jewish Life and American Culture (SUNY Series in American Jewish Society in the 1990s) and The Way Into the Varieties […]

Steven M. Cohen is a research professor of Jewish social policy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and a senior consultant to Synagogue 3000. He is one of the authors of the 2007 National Spiritual Communities Study and can discuss its findings on independent minyanim and havurot.

Gregory Robbins is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Denver. His interest is film studies, and he has taught the course “Jesus on the Silver Screen.”

A Sept. 17, 2006, ABC News story explores the controversy over the documentary Jesus Camp.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian was released in 2008. The film is the second in the seven-volume “Chronicles of Narnia” book series by C.S. Lewis. One of the characters in the film, Aslan, is said to be representative of Christ.

Jesus Camp is a documentary, with limited releases that began Sept. 15, 2006, about a children’s summer Bible camp. It is distributed by Magnolia Pictures, which also distributed Woman Thou Art Loosed, based on the novel by T.D. Jakes. The documentary by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady has been controversial. Some evangelicals say the film is unfair; some secular […]

David Aikman is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and the founder of Gegrapha, an organization of predominantly evangelical Christian journalists based in Washington, D.C. He has written a number of books, including Billy Graham: His Life and Influence;  A Man of Faith: The Spiritual Journey of George W. Bush; and One Nation Without God: The Battle […]

Donald E. Wildmon is founder and chairman of the American Family Association in Tupelo, Miss. Wildmon is an outspoken figure who is frequently in the news. Contact through Diane O’Neal.