- Acceptance
- Action
- Bearing Witness
- Boldness
- Care for Animals
- Care for Animals and the Environment
- Care for the child
- Care for the Environment
- Care for the neighbor
- Care for the Vulnerable
- Caring for children
- Caring for the child
- Caring for the needy
- Caring for the neighbor
- Caring for the Stranger
- Caring for the Vulnerable
- Change
- Charity
- Comfort
- Common Good
- Community
- Compassion
- Compromise
- Confession
- Connectedness
- Courage
- Democracy
- Determination
- Dignity
- Diversity
- Dreams
- Education
- Empathy
- Environment
- Equality
- Equity
- Faith
- Freedom
- Friendship
- Generosity
Andrea L. Weiss
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Provost and Associate Professor of Bible
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Lisa Bowens
Associate Professor of New Testament
Princeton Theological Seminary
Marc Z. Brettler
Bernice and Morton Lerner Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies
Duke University
Anantanand Rambachan
Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Asian Studies
Saint Olaf College
Carmen Nanko-Fernández
Professor of Hispanic Theology and Ministry Director
Hispanic Theology and Ministry Program, Catholic Theological Union
Nadia Kizenko
Professor of History, Director of Religious Studies
State University of New York, Albany
Randy Woodley
Distinguished Professor of Faith and Culture and Director of Intercultural and Indigenous Studies
George Fox University and Portland Seminary
Mitzi J. Smith
J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament
Columbia Theological Seminary
Miguel H. Díaz
John Courtney Murray University Chair in Public Service, U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, Retired
Loyola University Chicago
Ryan P. Bonfiglio
Assistant Professor
Candler School of Theology at Emory University
Rachel Mikva
Schaalman Professor in Jewish Studies, Senior Fellow
InterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological Seminary
Kimberly D. Russaw
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
Christian Theological Seminary
Emran El-Badawi
Program Director and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
University of Houston
Eric D. Barreto
Weyerhaeuser Associate Professor of New Testament
Princeton Theological Seminary
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
The Effie Wise Ochs Professor of Biblical Literature and History
Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion
Jacob L. Wright
Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible
Emory University – Candler School of Theology
Margaret Aymer
First Presbyterian Church, Shreveport, D. Thomason Professor of New Testament Studies
Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Amir Hussain
Chair and Professor of Theological Studies
Loyola Marymount University
Lia C. Howard
Student Advising and Wellness Director, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program
University of Pennsylvania
Mark S. Smith
Helena Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis
Princeton Theological Seminary
Tat-siong Benny Liew
Class of 1956 Professor in New Testament Studies
College of the Holy Cross
Paul W. Chilcote
Director
Centre for Global Wesleyan Theology at Wesley House at Cambridge University
Neomi De Anda
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
University of Dayton
Patrick B. Reyes
Senior Director of Learning Design
Forum for Theological Exploration
Stephen Breck Reid
Professor of Christian Scriptures
George W. Truett Theological Seminary of Baylor University
Kay Higuera Smith
Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies
Azusa Pacific University
Leo Guardado
Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology
Fordham University
Joshua D. Garroway
Sol and Arlene Bronstein Professor of Judaeo-Christian Studies
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles
Katherine A. Shaner
Assistant Professor of New Testament
Wake Forest University, School of Divinity
Jin Young Choi
Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins
Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School
Karoline M. Lewis
Marbury E. Anderson Chair in Biblical Preaching
Luther Seminary
Shawnee Daniels-Sykes
Professor of Theology and Ethics
Mount Mary University
Jacqueline M. Hidalgo
Professor of Latina/o/x Studies and Religion
Williams College
Ki Joo (KC) Choi
Professor of Theological Ethics and Chair of the Department of Religion
Seton Hall University
Jean-Pierre Ruiz
Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies
St. John’s University, New York
Matthew Kraus
Associate Professor of Judaic Studies
University of Cincinnati
Elsie R. Stern
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Associate Professor of Bible
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Rita D. Sherma
Director and Associate Professor of Hindu Studies
Mira and Ajay Shingal Center for Dharma Studies, Graduate Theological Union
Nirinjan Kaur Khalsa-Baker
Senior Instructor Theological Studies
Loyola Marymount University
William P. Brown
William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament
Columbia Theological Seminary
Herbert Robinson Marbury
Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East
Vanderbilt University Divinity School
Julie Faith Parker
Associate Professor of Biblical Studies
The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church
Eric Daryl Meyer
Gregory Roeben and Susan Raunig Professor of Social Justice and the Human-Animal Relationship
Carroll College
Christine Hayes
Sterling Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica
Yale University
Syed Atif Rizwan
Assistant Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies; Director of the Catholic-Muslim Studies Program
Catholic Theological Union
Rebecca Epstein-Levi
Mellon Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies
Vanderbilt University
Joel B. Kemp
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
Emory University’s Candler School of Theology
Phillis Isabella Sheppard
E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture
Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion
Eric Haruki Swanson
Assistant Professor of Theological Studies
Loyola Marymount University
Grace Song
Won Buddhist Studies Department Chair
Won Institute of Graduate Studies
Janet Gyatso
Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs
Harvard Divinity School
Kenneth Ngwa
Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible
Drew University Theological School
Angela N. Parker
Assistant Professor of New Testament and Greek
Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology
David Fox Sandmel
Senior Advisor on Interreligious Affairs
ADL (Anti-Defamation League)
Love Sechrest
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of New Testament
Columbia Theological Seminary
Mai-Anh Le Tran
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Academic Dean, Associate Professor of Religious Education and Practical Theology
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Deirdre Good
Faculty, Stevenson School of Ministry
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania
Aristotle Papanikolaou
Professor of Theology, Archbishop Demetrios Chair in Orthodox Theology and Culture
Fordham University
Nicholas A. Grier
Assistant Professor of Practical Theology, Spiritual Care, and Counseling
Claremont School of Theology
Ellen M. Ross
Howard M. and Charles F. Jenkins Professor of Quakerism and Peace Studies
Swarthmore College
Amy Easton-Flake
Associate Professor of Ancient Scripture
Brigham Young University
Efraín Agosto
Professor of New Testament Studies
New York Theological Seminary
Jaime Clark-Soles
Professor of New Testament and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor
Perkins School of Theology, SMU
Shreena Niketa Gandhi
Fixed Term Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University
Christopher Key Chapple
Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology
Loyola Marymount University
Bryan N. Massingale
James and Nancy Buckman Chair in Applied Christian Ethics
Fordham University
Anna C. Miller
Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Xavier University
Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh
Crawford Professor and Chair of Religious Studies
Colby College
Shively T. J. Smith
Assistant Professor of New Testament
Boston University School of Theology
Varun Soni
Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life
University of Southern California
Dawn M. Nothwehr
Erica and Harry John Family Endowed Chair in Catholic Theological Ethics
Catholic Theological Union-Chicago
Raj Nadella
Samuel A. Cartledge Associate Professor of New Testament
Columbia Theological Seminary
Kelly Brown Douglas
Dean, Bill and Judith Moyers Chair in Theology
Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Santiago Slabodsky
Robert and Florence Kaufman Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Religion
Hofstra University
Hamza Zafer
Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
University of Washington
Gay L. Byron
Professor of New Testament
Howard University School of Divinity
Daniel Fisher-Livne
Assistant Professor of Bible
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
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