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Adin Steinsaltz
On November 7, 2010, the Rabbi will celebrate his 45-year achievement of translating the Talmud in a 'Global Day of Jewish Learning'
Akbar Ahmed
The Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University in Washington. Former High Commissioner of Pakistan to Great Britain.
Amarnath Amarasingam
Amarnath Amarasingam is a doctoral candidate in the Laurier-Waterloo PhD in Religious Studies in Ontario, Canada, and also blogs regularly for The Huffington Post.
Andy Bachman
Bachman is the spiritual leader at Congregation Beth Elohim, Brooklyn's largest Reform synagogue. He co-founded of Brooklyn Jews, a cultural program for young Jews.
Anju Bhargava
Co-founder of Hindu American Seva Charities, an ordained pujari, President of Asian Indian Women in America, has provided leadership in the public and private sectors.
Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo
Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo is Professor Emeritus of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Brooklyn College and Distinguished Scholar of the City University of New York.
Arnold M. Eisen
Eisen, one of the world's foremost experts on American Judaismis, is the seventh chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary.
Arthur Waskow
Waskow, one of the creators and leaders of Jewish renewal, founded The Shalom Center and was named him one of America's fifty most influential rabbis by Newsweek in 2001.
Arun Gandhi
Gandhi is the fifth grandson of India’s legendary leader, Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi. He worked for 30 years as a journalist for The Times of India.
Aseem Shukla
Associate Professor in urologic surgery at the University of Minnesota medical school. Co-founder and board member of Hindu American Foundation.
Asma T. Uddin
An attorney, Uddin works on international religious freedom matters with The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
Austen Ivereigh
Austen Ivereigh is a writer and journalist, former adviser to Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, and a contributor to America magazine.
Barry Lynn
Rev. Barry Lynn is a ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, a lawyer, and Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Bill Press
Bill Press is host of The Bill Press Show, a nationally syndicated radio talk show airing weekdays on Sirius XM Satellite Radio and on many local stations across the country
Bob Edgar
Ex-Congressman from Pennsylvania, former general secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA.
Brad Hirschfield
Named as one of the nation’s 50 most influential rabbis in Newsweek, and one of the top 30 “Preachers and Teachers” by Beliefnet.com.
Brian D. McLaren
McLaren is pastor and intellectual leader of “emerging church,” a Christian evangelical movement that seeks new ways to worship and understand the gospel in postmodern era.
Cal Thomas
Thomas, a veteran of broadcast and print journalism, writes a twice-weekly column that appears in over 500 newspapers around the world.
Charles "Chuck" Colson
An attorney, syndicated columnist and author of 25 books, Colson served as special counsel to President Nixon. His daily radio commentary, BreakPoint, is broadcast nationwide.
Charles C. Haynes
Senior scholar at the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, director of the Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum in Washington.
Chester Gillis
Gillis is the Amaturo Chair of Catholic Studies at Georgetown University where he has been a faculty since 1988 and chair of the Theology Department from 2001 to 2005.
Chris Seiple
Founder, The Review of Faith & International Affairs; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute; member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Chris Stedman
Chris Stedman is the Interfaith and Community Service Fellow for the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University and Managing Director of State of Formation (a new initiative at the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue.
Christopher Dickey
Dickey is Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Regional Editor for Newsweek magazine. He was a foreign correspondent in Cairo and C. America for the Washington Post.
Clark Strand
The author is a contributing editor for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and the founder of the Green Meditation Society in Woodstock, New York.
Clayton Christensen
Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; leader in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Colleen Carroll Campbell
Author of “The New Faithful,” ex-presidential speechwriter, op-ed columnist for St. Louis Post-Dispatch, host of “Faith & Culture,” a TV and radio show on EWTN.
Daisy Khan
Khan is Executive Director of American Society for Muslim Advancement. Wife of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Khan mentors young Muslims various modern era challenges.
Daniel C. Dennett
Dennett is the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. His most recent book was "Breaking the Spell."
Danielle Bean
Danielle Bean, a Catholic author, is editorial director of Faith & Family magazine and Faith & Family Live.
David Gushee
Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University; author of 12 books including "Kingdom Ethics".
David Saperstein
Saperstein is the Washington representative of Judaism's Reform Movement and co-chairs the Coalition to Preserve Religious Liberty.
David Waters
David Waters is the editor of On Faith.
David Wolpe
Named the No.1 Pulpit Rabbi in America by Newsweek magazine, Wolpe is the Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles and currently teaches at UCLA.
Debra W. Haffner
An ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and Executive director of the Religious Institute, a multifaith organization dedicated to sexual health and justice.
Deepak Chopra
Chopra is the author of more than fifty-six books translated into over thirty-five languages. His latest book is The Soul of Leadership.
Desmond Tutu
Tutu, the first black African archbishop of Cape Town, was awarded the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to the cause of racial justice in South Africa.
Donna Freitas
Freitas is Assistant Professor of Religion at Boston University whose academic focus is the struggle of belonging and alienation with regard to faith.
Dwight Hopkins
Dwight N. Hopkins is Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. The "On Faith" panelist is the author of "Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion."
Eboo Patel
Patel is founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international nonprofit that promotes interfaith cooperation. His blog is The Faith Divide.
Elaine Pagels
Pagels is Harrington Spear Paine Foundation professor of religion at Princeton University and Pulitzer-nominated author of books on the pluralistic nature of early Christianity.
Elie Wiesel
Wiesel was deported with his family to Auschwitz from Transylvania at age 15 and received the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace for his advocacy for oppressed peoples.
Elizabeth Tenety
Elizabeth Tenety is the producer of On Faith's 'Divine Impulses' video feature.
Erica Brown
Scholar-in-Residence for The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, adjunct professor at American University and George Washington University.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
Rauf is Chairman of the Cordoba Initiative and author of "What's Right With Islam Is What's Right With America."
Fr. Frank Pavone
Father Frank Pavone is the national director of Priests for Life, the largest Catholic, pro-life organization in the country, with offices in New York City and Washington, D.C.
Gabriel Salguero
Salguero is a pastor and executive member of the Latino Leadership Circle. He is also director of the Hispanic Leadership Program at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Galen Carey
Director of Government Affairs, National Association of Evangelicals. Previously, he served with World Relief for over 26 years.
Gardner Calvin Taylor
Taylor led the congregation from 1948 to 1990. President Clinton awarded Taylor the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000.
Gene Davenport
Professor Emeritus of Religion at Lambuth University. His most recent book is "Though the Mountains Tremble: Biblical Reflections on Contemporary Society."
Geoffrey Black
Elected General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ in June 2009. Also has served as UCC Conference Minister in the state of New York.
George Carey
Former Archbishop of Canterbury is Chancellor of the University of Gloucestershire and President of the London School of Theology.
George Weigel
Weigel is a Catholic theologian and Senior Fellow at Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington. He is the author or editor of eighteen books.
Graylan S. Hagler
Senior Minister, Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, Washington DC; Development Director, Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America
Greg M. Epstein
The author of the New York Times bestseller, "Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe."
Gustav Niebuhr
Niebuhr is an associate professor of religion and the media at Syracuse University and directs Religion & Society Program, an interdisciplinary undergraduate major.
Hadia Mubarak
Mubarak is a doctoral student at Georgetown University's Islamic Studies department and received her Master's Degree in Contemporary Arab Studies.
Hemant Mehta
Hemant Mehta is the author of "I Sold My Soul on eBay" and a blogger at FriendlyAtheist.com.
Herb Silverman
Silverman is Founder and President of the Secular Coalition for America, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the College of Charleston.
His Beatitude, Patriarch Theofilos III
Born in Greece, His Beatitude Theofilos III was elected 141st Patriarch of the Orthodox Christian Church in Jerusalem in 2005.
Irwin Kula
Kula is the President of The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership in New York. He has served congregations in St. Louis, New York and Jerusalem.
J. Brent Walker
Walker is also a member of the Supreme Court Bar, an ordained minister and professor at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond.
Jack Moline
Jack Moline has been rabbi of Agudas Achim Congregation in Alexandria, Virginia, since 1987. He is past chair of the board of Interfaith Alliance.
James Anderson
Anderson is a retired Episcopal priest, an almost full-time volunteer in the community and a part-time farm manager. He has also written books on ministry in the local church.
James Standish
Standish is a member of the US Supreme Court Bar and a member of the International Religious Liberty Association’s panel of experts.
Jane Holmes Dixon
Dixon served as Episcopal Bishop of Washington, Pro tempore until 2002. She was consecrated in 1992 as Suffragan Bishop of Washington.
Janet Edwards
Rev. Dr. Edwards is a Presbyterian minister living in Pittsburgh. She currently serves as co-Moderator of More Light Presbyterians.
Jason Pitzl-Waters
Jason Pitzl-Waters is co-founder and Projects Coordinator of the Pagan Newswire Collective. He writes daily for the popular Pagan news site The Wild Hunt.
Jason Poling
Rev. Poling is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, and board member of the Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary's Seminary & University in Baltimore.
Jennifer Butler
Served 9 years as Presbyterian Church (USA) Representative to the United Nations (UN). Founding executive director of Faith in Public Life.
Jill Jacobs
Rabbi Jill Jacobs is the founding director of Ma'aseh: The Center for Jewish Social Justice Education and the author of There Shall be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice through Jewish Law and Tradition and the forthcoming Where Justice Dwells: A Hands-On Guide to Doing Social Justice in Your Jewish Community.
Jim Daly
Daly is recipient of the 2008 World Children’s Center Humanitarian Award and the 2009 Children’s Hunger Fund Children’s Champion Award.
Jim Wallis
Jim Wallis is President and CEO of Sojourners, a Christian organization whose mission is to articulate the biblical call to social justice.
John Bryson Chane
Chane is the eighth Episcopal Bishop of Washington, a diocese of 93 congregations and about 45,000 church members in the District of Columbia and Maryland.
John Dominic Crossan
Crossan is a professor emeritus in the religious studies department at DePaul University. He was an ordained priest from 1957 to 1969 and is the author of 23 books.
John Esposito
Professor of religion, international affairs and Islamic studies.
John Mark Reynolds
Professor of philosophy for Biola, Reynolds blogs regularly at Scriptoriumdaily.com along with other faculty from the Torrey Honors Institute, a great books program.
John Shelby Spong
His best-selling books include "Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism," "A New Christianity for a New World," "Why Christianity Must Change or Die," and "Eternal Life."
Jon Meacham
Meacham is the author of several books including "American Gospel" and "American Lion," winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Jonathan D. Sarna
Sarna is the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and director of its Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program.
Jonathan Merritt
Author of Green Like God: Unlocking the Divine Plan for Our Planet and religion writer who has published widely in such outlets as USA Today, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Christianity Today, and Beliefnet.
Jordan Sekulow
Jordan Sekulow is Director of Policy and International Operations at the American Center for Law & Justice.
Julia Neuberger
Neuberger is a trustee of the British Council, Jewish Care, and the Booker Prize Foundation, as well as founding trustee of the Walter and Liesel Schwab Charitable Trust.
Karen Armstrong
Armstrong is a prominent author on religious history, including the highly acclaimed “A History of God.” She is also is the author of three television documentaries.
Katharine Henderson
Author of "God’s Troublemakers: How Women of Faith are Changing the World"; international leader in theological education and religious leadership.
Kathleen Flake
Flake is associate professor of American religious history at Vanderbilt University and teaches courses in new religious movements church-state relations in America.
Kenneth E. Bowers
Secretary General of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'i Faith, the nine-member elected governing body of the Bahá'ís Faith in the 48 contiguous states.
Kerry Robinson
Member of the Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities and the Board of Directors of FADICA (Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities).
Lauren Artress
Canon at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, president and founder of Veriditas, a group dedicated to the powers of the labyrinth.
Leith Anderson
Anderson is president of the National Association of Evangelicals. Anderson has been senior pastor of Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, MN, since 1977.
Leo Brunnick
Founder, CEO of Patheos.com -- a website dedicated to elevating the global conversation on religion and spirituality.
Lisa Miller
Miller, former senior writer at the Wall Street Journal, is a senior editor at Newsweek and oversees all of its religion coverage and writes the regular "Belief Watch" column.
Lyle Dukes
Dukes is Senior Pastor and founder of Harvest Life Changers Church in Woodbridge, VA. His wife is co-pastor Deborah Dukes and they have served the church since 1995.
M. Cathleen Kaveny
Kaveny, the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, studies the relationship of law, religion, and morality.
Marcus Borg
Borg holds the Hundere Chair in Religion and Culture at Oregon State University. A fellow of the Jesus Seminar, he was president of the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars.
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels
Journalist-in-residence at Fordham University, former editor-in-chief of Commonweal magazine, and editor of American Catholics in the Public Square .
Mark Driscoll
Among America's most prominent young Christian voices, Driscoll describes himself as "a nobody trying to tell everybody about Somebody."
Mark Hall
Hall is a youth pastor at Eagleâs Landing First Baptist Church in Atlanta and lead singer and songwriter for Casting Crowns, the top-selling Christian music group.
Mark S. Sisk
Sisk, ordained in 1967, has been Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, one of the Episcopal Church’s largest dioceses with over 200 congregations, since 2001.
Mark Tauber
Tauber, Senior Vice President of HarperCollins Publishers, has a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and 15 years of books publishing experience.
Martin Marty
Historian, author, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he taught religious history, chiefly in the Divinity School, for 35 years.
Mathew N. Schmalz
Schmalz writes and teaches in the fields of Comparative Religions and South Asian Studies. He also writes on Catholic spirituality.
Matt Maher
Maher is a recording artist on Essential Records. A Catholic musician originally from Newfoundland, Canada, he later relocated to the Phoenix area of Arizona.
Max Carter
A recorded Friends minister, he serves on the Board of the American Friends Service Committee and the Advisory Board of the Earlham School of Religion.
Melissa Rogers
Director, Center for Religion and Public Affairs, Wake Forest University Divinity School; nonresident senior fellow of The Brookings Institution.
Michael Otterson
Otterson heads the worldwide public affairs functions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was a former journalist and editor for newspapers.
Muqtedar Khan
Associate professor, political science and international relations; Fellow of the Institute of Social Policy and Understanding.
Nathan Diament
Director of Public Policy, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America
Nicholas T. Wright
Wright is Anglican Bishop of Durham, England and taught New Testament studies for 20 years at Cambridge, McGill and Oxford Universities.
Norman Lear
Founder of People for the American Way is a TV and movie producer, creator of Archie Bunker and the show "All in the Family." Awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1999.
Pamela K. Taylor
Taylor is co-founder of Muslims for Progressive Values, former director of the Islamic Writers Alliance and strong supporter of the woman imam movement. She blogs at A Modern Muslim
Paula Kirby
A former Christian, Kirby is a writer, consultant and project manager, specializing in freethinking and secular organizations. She lives in Scotland.
Phil Davis
Former manager, Christian Science Committees on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston. One of 200 authorized Christian Science teachers in the world.
R. Albert Mohler Jr.
Mohler became seminary president after serving as editor of The Christian Index, the oldest of the state papers serving the Southern Baptist Convention.
R. Elisabeth Cornwell
Executive Director of the U.S. branch of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.
Rajan Zed
Zed is an Interfaith Leader Award recipient, President of Universal Society of Hinduism, and Chairperson of Indo-American Leadership Confederation.
Rajdeep Singh
Rajdeep Singh is Director of Law and Policy at The Sikh Coalition.
Ramdas Lamb
Hindu monk in India from 1969-1978. Professor, University of Hawai’i, world religions and contemporary American religion.
Randall Balmer
Balmer, an Episcopal priest, is professor of American religious history at Barnard College, a visiting professor at Yale Divinity School and an author of many books.
Rebecca Goldstein
Award-winning novelist and philosopher, MacArthur Fellow, author of eight books, most recently "36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction."
Reza Aslan
Dr. Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, is a contributing editor at The Daily Beast
Richard Bushman
Bushman is Gouverneur Morris Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia University. His most recent book is "Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling."
Richard Dawkins
Former Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford; author of "The God Delusion" and "The Greatest Show on Earth."
Richard Land
Named one of “The 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America” by Time, Land has worked as a Southern Baptist pastor, theologian, and public policymaker.
Richard Mouw
Mouw, a philosopher, scholar, and author, is president of Fuller Theological Seminary. He has been recognized as an important voice among reform-oriented evangelicals.
Rick Warren
Warren, author of “The Purpose Driven Life”, founded Saddleback Church in 1980. Today, the church has 83,000 members and a 120-acre campus in Lake Forest, CA.
Robert Parham
Parham is executive editor of EthicsDaily.com and executive director of its parent organization, the Baptist Center for Ethics
Robert Thurman
Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University and President of the Tibet House U.S.
Ronald Rychlak
Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Mississippi School of Law; adviser to the Holy See's delegation to the United Nations.
Russ Gerber
Manager, Christian Science Committees on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston. One of 200 authorized Christian Science teachers in the world.
Sally Quinn
Washington Post journalist and author of several books, Quinn is founder and (with Jon Meacham) co-moderator of On Faith.
Salman Ahmad
Ahmad founded the popular South Asian band Junoon, which has sold over 25 million albums and became the first rock band invited to perform at the U.N. General Assembly.
Sam Harris
Harris is the author of the best-selling books "Letter to a Christian Nation" and "The End of Faith", which won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction.
Samuel Rodriguez
Rodriguez is founding pastor of Third Day Worship Centers and President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.
Samuel T. Lloyd III
Lloyd is the ninth dean of Washington National Cathedral and previously served as rector of Boston's historic Trinity Church in Copley Square for 12 years.
Serene Jones
The Rev. Dr. Serene Jones is the 16th president of the historic Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.
Shane Claiborne
Shane Claiborne is a prominent Christian author, speaker and activist. He is founder of The Simple Way, a Christian community in inner-city Philadelphia that has helped birth and connect radical faith communities around the world.
Sharon Brous
Brous is the founding rabbi of IKAR, a Jewish Spiritual Community in Los Angeles. She was recently noted in Newsweek as one of the leading rabbis in the country.
Shmully Hecht
Rabbinical Advisor of Eliezer; the Jewish society at Yale University.
Sid Schwarz
Sid Schwarz is a Senior Fellow at Clal: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. Named one of the 50 most influential rabbis in America by Newsweek.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of the international non profits, the Art of Living Foundation (AOLF) and International Association for Human Values (IAHV), is a spiritual leader and multi-faceted humanitarian.
Starhawk
Starhawk is a prominent voice in modern Wiccan spirituality and cofounder of reclaiming.org, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion, and author of ten books.
Stephen Prothero
Prothero is a Professor in the Department of Religion at
Boston University and the author of numerous books on American religion.
Steven Wernick
The rabbi is Executive Vice President and CEO of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.
Sulayman Nyang
Nyang teaches in the Department of African Studies at Howard University and served as Gambia's deputy ambassador to seven Middle Eastern and North African countries.
Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
Former president of Chicago Theological Seminary (1998-2008), Thistlethwaite is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
Susan Jacoby
Susan Jacoby is the author of nine books, most recently "The Age of American Unreason" and "Alger Hiss And The Battle for History."
Susan K. Smith
Smith, a Yale Divinity School graduate, is author of "Crazy Faith: Ordinary People; Extraordinary Lives", a winner of the 2009 National Best Books Award.
T.D. Jakes
Bishop T.D. Jakes is the pastor of The Potter's House, a 30,000 member nondenominational church in Dallas, Texas.
Terry McKiernan
founder and president of BishopAccountability.org, a library and web archive of the Catholic sex abuse and financial crisis.
Thomas G. Bohlin
Bohlin is the U.S. vicar of the Catholic organization Opus Dei. He has a doctorate in history from Notre Dame and in theology from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.
Thomas J. Reese, S.J.
Former editor of the Catholic weekly magazine "America", Reese is the author of "Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church."
Timothy Shriver
Chairman and CEO of the Special Olympics
Tom Flynn
executive director of the Council for Secular Humanism and editor of its magazine Free Inquiry.
Valerie Elverton Dixon
Founder JustPeaceTheory.com; former teacher of Christian Ethics at Andover Newton (Mass.) Theological School and United Theological Seminary in Ohio.
Vashti Murphy McKenzie
Trustee, Payne Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, and the International Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Welton Gaddy
Pastor for preaching and worship at Northminster (Baptist) Church in Monroe, LA, Gaddy has written more than 20 books and hosts the weekly radio show, State of Belief.
Wendy Doniger
Doniger’s research and teaching center on Hinduism and mythology. Her courses in Hinduism cover mythology, literature, law, gender and ecology.
William J. Byron
Byron was formerly president of Catholic University, and is currently serving as president of St. Joseph's Preparatory School in Philadelphia.
William Tully
Before serving churches in New York, Maryland and Washington, D.C., Tully worked as a copy boy and local reporter at the Los Angeles Times.
Willis E. Elliott
A United Church of Christ and American Baptist minister, Elliott has been a pastor, teacher, lecturer, dean, church executive. He is the author of six books.
