Sofia Ali-Khan Sofia Ali-Khan is a powerful anti-racist storyteller and a public interest lawyer. Her book, A Good Country: My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America was published by Random House in 2022 and won the 2023 Nautilus Gold Book Award for Social Justice. Writing at the intersection of…
Damien Pascal Domenack Damien Pascal Domenack, (he/him) is a chaplain, Santero priest, and a candidate for ordination in the Unitarian Universalist tradition whose ministry centers Queer, Transgender, Black, and Brown immigrant communities of which he is a part. Damien is a longtime hospitality professional, prison abolitionist, and founding member of AUdre Lorde Project’s TransJustice. He…
S. Brent Rodríguez-Plate Born in the year of the Fire Horse, Professor Rodríguez-Plate has traveled the world seeking ways that people practice and/or fight against religious traditions, whether ancient or modern. Convinced that religion has less to do with beliefs than with bodies, Rodríguez-Plate queries the ways people connect with physical objects through sense perception:…
Jonah Boyarin Jonah Boyarin (he/they) is a political-cultural writer, educator, and community organizer. Their writing has appeared in Jewish Currents, In geveb, and elsewhere. In his day job, as the Jewish Communities Liaison for the New York City Commission on Human Rights, Jonah authored the City’s official curriculum on antisemitism, using an intersectional lens, and…
João B. Chaves João B. Chaves, Ph.D., is Associate Director for Programming at the Hispanic Theological Initiative, housed at Princeton Theological Seminary. João is the author of several peer-reviewed articles and four books, including Migrational Religion: Context and Creativity in the Latinx Diaspora (Baylor University Press, 2021) and The Global Mission of the Jim Crow South (Mercer…
Brook Wilensky-Lanford Brook Wilensky-Lanford is a creative nonfiction writer and a scholar of religion and literature. She is dedicated to helping writers tell stories to various publics, through the intersecting genres of scholarship, journalism, and literature. Brook is the author of the narrative history Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden (Grove Press, 2011), a New York…
Stephanie Mitchem I understand teaching and learning as “r/evolutionary acts”* and engage graduate and undergraduate students in the radical art of thinking. As a scholar, I utilize an interdisciplinary lens (history, ethics, theology, cultural studies, anthropology, ethnography) to engage complex and critical topics. I am a religions scholar, who has been accused of being a…
Pamela D. Winfield Pamela D. Winfield is Professor of Buddhist Studies at Elon University, NC. Her award-winning book Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism and her co-edited volume (with Steven Heine) entitled Zen and Material Culture were both published by Oxford University Press. She has edited several themed issues of CrossCurrents Journal and published extensively…
Stephanie Mitchem I understand teaching and learning as “r/evolutionary acts”* and engage graduate and undergraduate students in the radical art of thinking. As a scholar, I utilize an interdisciplinary lens (history, ethics, theology, cultural studies, anthropology, ethnography) to engage complex and critical topics. I am a religions scholar, who has been accused of being a…
Stephanie Mitchem I understand teaching and learning as “r/evolutionary acts”* and engage graduate and undergraduate students in the radical art of thinking. As a scholar, I utilize an interdisciplinary lens (history, ethics, theology, cultural studies, anthropology, ethnography) to engage complex and critical topics. I am a religions scholar, who has been accused of being a…