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About the Panelists and Moderator

Sarah Posner

Sarah Posner is the author of UNHOLY: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, And the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind. Her 2008 book, God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, explored the unholy alliance between the Republican Party and prosperity televangelists. Her  investigative reporting and analysis on the religious right in Republican politics has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New Republic, Vice, HuffPost, Reveal, The Nation, Mother Jones, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The American Prospect, Talking Points Memo, and many other publications. She is a widely cited expert and frequent commentator on religion and politics, and a columnist for MSNBC.

Amanda Tyler

Amanda Tyler is the executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC), where she defends religious liberty and opposes government establishment of religion. She leads the Christians Against Christian Nationalism campaign and co-hosts the Respecting Religion podcast. A member of the Texas and U.S. Supreme Court Bar, Tyler has worked in Congress, private legal practice, and as a law clerk for a federal judge. Originally from Austin, Texas, she graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University and earned her J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law. She became BJC’s executive director in 2017.

Heather Miller Rubens, Ph.D.

Heather Miller Rubens, Ph.D., is the executive director and the Roman Catholic scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies. She is an experienced teacher and facilitator of interreligious dialogue, developing educational initiatives for the Baltimore-Washington area and online. Her research focuses on the implications of religious diversity and interreligious society. Heather serves on the Committee on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and is part of the Christian Scholars Group. She holds degrees from Georgetown University (B.A.), the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (G.Dip.), and the University of Chicago (A.M. and Ph.D.).  She has taught at Lewis University, DePaul University, and St. Mary’s Seminary.