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About the Participants
Katherine Stewart | Author
Katherine Stewart is an award-winning journalist and author who has reported on the intersection of religion, politics, and democracy for over 16 years. Her latest book, Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy (Bloomsbury 2025), is a New York Times bestseller. She is also the author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, winner of multiple awards and which formed the basis for the documentary God & Country. Her earlier book, The Good News Club, exposed efforts to undermine public education. Her work appears in The New York Times opinion section, New Republic, Religion News Service and others.
Heather Miller Rubens, Ph.D. | Moderator
Heather Miller Rubens, Ph.D. is the ICJS executive director and Roman Catholic scholar. She is an experienced teacher, public speaker, facilitator, and scholar-practitioner of interreligious learning and dialogue. She develops educational initiatives that foster interreligious learning and conversation for the public in the Baltimore-Washington corridor and online. In her research and writing Heather creatively focuses on the theoretical, theological, ethical, and political implications of affirming religious diversity and building an interreligious society.