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Media Contact

John Rivera, Director of Communications & Marketing
jrivera@icjs.org
Office: 410-494-7161, ext. 2002
Cell: 443-604-2918

ICJS in the News

View all of ICJS Protestant Scholar Matthew D. Taylor’s news clips on Christian nationalism.

Hegseth defends tattoos with alleged connection to extremist groups in confirmation hearing. NBC News, Jan. 14, 2025, interview with ICJS Protestant Scholar Matthew D. Taylor.


The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows, 1/9/2025, The Atlantic magazine, quotes ICJS Protestant Scholar Matthew D. Taylor.


“I grew up Muslim in a Catholic community—and Mary represented common ground,”
The Guardian, Dec. 24, 2024, article by ICJS Muslim Scholar Zeyneb Sayilgan.


What Catholics can learn from Muhammad about grief,
US Catholic, Oct. 23, 2024,
essay by ICJS Muslim Scholar Zeyneb Sayilgan.


Silber-Obrecht Lectures to Georgetown Press,
Publisher’s Weekly, Oct. 16, 2024, announcement of Silber-Obrecht Lecture book in Religion Book Deals


We must have courage to dialogue,
National Catholic Reporter, Sept. 25, 2024,
commentary by Heather Miller Rubens.


3 Quranic concepts to guide interfaith dialogue.
U.S. Catholic, Aug. 8, 2024,
article by ICJS Muslim Scholar Zeyneb Sayilgan.


The Hajj: A Muslim Vision for the Interreligious Life The Living Church, June 14, 2024, article by ICJS Muslim scholar Zeyneb Sayilgan


The casual, but dangerous antisemitism in Harrison Butker’s commencement speech
National Catholic Reporter, May 29, 2024, commentary by Heather Miller Rubens.


What the dead teach us about life: A view from Islam’s last rites,
Religion News Service, May 15, 2024, article by ICJS Muslim Scholar Zeyneb Sayilgan


5 things Lent and Ramadan have in common
U.S. Catholic, March 21, 2024, article by ICJS Muslim Scholar Zeyneb Sayilgan


The Muslim Mary
Covenant Magazine, March 12, 2024, article by ICJS Muslim Scholar Zeyneb Sayilgan


What Alabama’s IVF ruling reveals about the ascendant Christian nationalist movement
The Guardian, March 2, 2024, quotes ICJS Protestant Scholar Matthew D. Taylor.


Alabama justice’s ties with far-right Christian movement raise concern
NPR Morning Edition, Feb. 27, 2024, quotes ICJS Protestant Scholar Matthew D. Taylor.


How the Alabama IVF Ruling Was Influenced by Christian Nationalism
On the Media, Feb. 23, 2024, interview with ICJS Protestant Scholar Matthew D. Taylor.


Trump allies prepare to infuse ‘Christian nationalism’ in second administration
Politico, Feb. 20, 2024, quotes ICJS Protestant Scholar Matthew D. Taylor.

Statements & Press Releases

ICJS to Offer 2025 Capacity-Building Grants for Chaplains (1/8/2025)

ICJS Partner Maryland Center for History and Culture Receives $2.5M Grant to Explore Religious Diversity and Tolerance in Maryland (1/7/2025)

Former ICJS President Irfan Malik Named Emeritus Trustee (10/3/2024)

Georgetown University Press to Publish ICJS Silber-Obrecht Lecture Series (9/26/2024)

ICJS Welcomes New Trustees Julia Nickels Bryan and William J. Stromberg (7/1/2024)

ICJS partners with the Maryland Center for History and Culture to explore religious tolerance in Maryland (2/14/2024)

ICJS Awards Four Capacity-Building Grants (12/18/2023)

How does ICJS respond to this moment? (10/10/2023)

ICJS Awards Four Interreligious Capacity-Building Grants for Chaplains (10/4/2023)

ICJS Partners with T. Rowe Price Foundation to Offer Capacity-Building Grants for Justice Leaders Fellowship Alumni (8/30/2023)

ICJS Welcomes New Board Officers and Trustees (7/20/2023)

ICJS to Offer Capacity-Building Grants to Chaplains (4/25/2023)

ICJS Launches Support Initiative for Maryland Chaplains (1/26/2023)

A National Reckoning of the Soul: CCJR Statement on Antisemitism, endorsed by ICJS (12/14/2022)

Harvard Theologian Francis X. Clooney, S.J. Named Inaugural ICJS Silber-Obrecht Lecturer (9/15/2022)

ICJS Executive Director to Serve as Fall 2022 Visiting Scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary (8/12/2022)

Announcing Inaugural Interreligious Dialogue Course for Emerging Muslim & Christian Religious Leaders (5/31/2022)

Statement on the Mass Shooting in Buffalo (5/17/2022)

Statement on the Texas Hostage Incident (1/16/2022)

ICJS Experts

Heather Miller Rubens, Ph.D.

  • Interreligious Dialogue in History & Practice
  • Roman Catholicism & Interreligious Relations
  • Jewish-Christian Relations
  • Religion, Law, & the Courts
  • Religion in the Public Square
  • Women & Interreligious Leadership

Interview Heather Miller Rubens

Zeyneb Sayilgan, Ph.D.

  • Islamic Theology and Spirituality
  • Islam in Europe
  • Women in Islam
  • Christian-Muslim Relations
  • Religion and Migration

Interview Zeyneb Sayilgan

Fatimah Fanusie, Ph.D

  • Islamic Development in America up to 1965
  • African American Islam
  • African American Religion and the Long Civil Rights Movement

Interview Fatimah Fanusie

 

Alisha Wimbush, Th.D.

  • Chaplaincy and Interreligious Encounter
  • Interreligious Engagement in Congregations
  • Interreligious Leadership Development in Congregations
  • Women, Healing, and Dance in African American Christianity
  • Spiritual Care in Community

Interview Alisha Tatem

Benjamin E. Sax, Ph.D.

  • Philosoph(ies) of Dialogue
  • Modern Jewish Thought
  • Jewish History and Culture
  • Jewish-Christian Relations
  • Interreligious Dialogue
  • Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Interview Benjamin Sax

Matthew D. Taylor, Ph.D.

  • Muslim-Christian Relations
  • Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism
  • Salafism in the U.S.
  • Christian Nationalism
  • Interreligious Encounter

Interview Matthew Taylor

Christine Gallagher

  • Interreligious Encounter in the Classroom
  • Role of Interreligious Leadership in Educational Settings
  • Religious Literacy Professional Development 
  • Interreligious Perspectives and Pedagogy 
  • Mission-based Institutional Reflection 

Interview Christine Gallagher

Christine Krieger

  • Interreligious Leadership Development in Congregations
  • Gender and Intersections of Identity
  • Community-building in Diverse Spaces
  • Religious Exploration for Adolescents
  • Women and Society

Interview Christiine Krieger