Saleem Ali

Distinguished Professor, University of Delaware; Honorary Professor, University of Queensland

Garrick Allen

Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies (New Testament), the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow

Jonathan Anderson

Associate Professor of Art, Biola University

Jeanne Bamberger

Professor Emerita of Music and Urban Education, MIT

Luke Barnes

Lecturer in Astronomy and Cosmology, Western Sydney University

John Behr

Eastern Orthodox priest and theologian; Regius Professor of Humanity, University of Aberdeen

Jonathan Berger

Denning Family Provostial Professor in Music, Stanford University

Julio Bermudez

Director of the Sacred Space and Cultural Studies graduate concentration program, the Catholic University of America

Alfonse Borysewicz

Painter

Todd Boyd

Endowed Chair for Study of Race and Popular Culture, USC

Christopher Brewer

Theologian, Academic Entrepreneur, and Principal Advisor, Templeton Religion Trust

David Brown

Professor Emeritus, School of Divinity, University of St. Andrews

Stephan J. Cannell

TV Creator, Show Runner, Writer, Novelist; founder, Cannell Entertainment/Studios

Anjan Chatterjee

Professor of Neurology, Psychology, and Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania

Noam Chomsky

Institute Professor Emeritus, MIT; Laureate Professor of Linguistics, University of Arizona

Sarah Coakley

Norris-Hulse Emeritus Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge; Anglican priest

Michael Crichton

Author and Filmmaker

Diana Deutsch

Professor of Psychology, UC San Diego

David Deutsch

Visiting Professor, Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford

David Eagleman

Neuroscientist, Stanford University

Jamal Elias

Director of the Wolf Humanities Center, University of Pennsylvania

George Ellis

Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems, University of Cape Town

Paul Fiddes

Principal Emeritus, former Chairman, Faculty of Theology and Religion, St Peter’s College, Oxford

Menachem Fisch

Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science, Tel Aviv University

Robert Freeman

Former Director, Eastman School of Music

Stacie Friend

Stacie Friend is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh

Francis Fukuyama

Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

Murray Gell-Mann

Nobel Laureate in Physics; Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics, Caltech

Leon Glass

Meritus Professor and the Isadore Rosenfeld Chair in Cardiology, McGill University

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Philosopher and Novelist

Lester Grabbe

Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism, University of Hull

Gordon Graham

Professor of Philosophy and the Arts, Princeton Theological Seminary

Suzanne Hanser

Chair Emerita, Music Therapy Department, Berklee College of Music

Nathan Jacobs

Scholar in Residence of Philosophy and Religion, Vanderbilt University

Rhoda Janzen

Writer; Professor of English, Hope College

Peter Loewenberg

Professor Emeritus of History and Political Psychology, UCLA; former Chair, International Psychoanalytic Association

Sir James MacMillan

Pre-eminent Scottish composer of his generation

Elizabeth Margulis

Professor of Music; Director, Music Cognition Lab, Princeton University

Tom McLeish

Professor (Emeritus) of Natural Philosophy, Department of Physics, University of York, UK

Patrick McNamara

Associate Professor of Neurology, Boston University

John McWhorter

Aassociate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Matthew Milliner

Associate Professor of Art History, Wheaton College

Alva Noë

Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley

Sherwin Nuland

Former Clinical Professor of Surgery, Yale University; Author

Oludamini Ogunnaike

Artist

Roger Penrose

Nobel Prize in Physics; Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Oxford

Carl Plantinga

Arthur H. DeKruyter Chair of Communication, Calvin College

Varadaraja Raman

Professor Emeritus of Physics and Humanities, Rochester Institute of Technology; former President, Institute on Religion in an Age of Science

Antonius Roberts

Painter and Sculptor

Aaron Rosen

Director, Henry Luce III Center for the Arts & Religion, Wesley Theological Seminary

Michael Shermer

Founder and Publisher, Skeptic Magazine; Philosopher of Science; Author

Todd Siler

Multimedia Artist and Author

Murray Smith

Professor of Film, Divisional Deputy Director of Research & Innovation (Interdisciplinary), and Director of the Aesthetics Research Centre, University of Kent

James Tabor

Professor and former Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Raymond Tallis

Philosopher, Essayist, Medical Doctor

Mark Tramo

Director, The Institute for Music & Brain Science; Neurologist, Good Samaritan Hospital

Victoria Vesna

Artist and Professor, Department of Design Media Arts, UCLA

Murray Watts

Playwright; Screenwriter

Steven Weinberg

Nobel Laureate in Physics; Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin

Frank Wilczek

Nobel Laureate in Physics; Templeton Prize recipient; Emeritus Professor of Physics, MIT; Distinguished Professor in Physics, Arizona State University

John Witvliet

Director, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship

Judith Wolfe

Professor of Philosophical Theology, University of St. Andrews

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Philosopher Emeritus of Philosophical Theolgy, Yale University

Taylor Worley

Visiting Associate Professor of Art History, Wheaton College

Hamza Yusuf

President, Zaytuna College

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