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About the Participants
Katherine Stewart
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.
Matthew D. Taylor, Ph.D.
Matthew D. Taylor, Ph.D., is the Christian scholar at ICJS, where he specializes in Muslim-Christian dialogue, Evangelical and Pentecostal movements, religious politics in the U.S., and American Islam. Taylor holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies and Muslim-Christian Relations from Georgetown University and an M.A. in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. His book, Scripture People: Salafi Muslims in Evangelical Christians’ America (Cambridge University Press), offers an introduction to the oft-misunderstood Salafi movement in the U.S. by way of comparison with American Evangelicalism.