Interviewees

  • Norman Wirzba

    is the Gilbert T. Rowe professor of Christian theology at Duke Divinity School and senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He is the author and editor of 16 books including Living the Sabbath and more recently Agrarian Spirit.

  • Jeffrey A Johnson, Sr.

    is Senior Pastor of Eastern Star Baptist Church in Indianapolis, IN where he has been pastor since 1988. Eastern Star was begun in 1920 and today has three church campuses across Indianapolis service thousands every Sunday both in person and virtually.

  • Susannah Heschel

    is the Eli M. Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the daughter and only child of acclaimed writer Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Her books include The Aryan Jesus, Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus and Abraham Joshua Heschel Essential Writings.

  • Judy Fentress-Williams

    is Professor of Old Testament at Virginia Theological Seminary and Senior Assistant to the Pastor for historic Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va. Her publications include Holy Imagination and Ruth.

  • J Dana Trent

    is an ordained minister who teaches at Wake Tech Community College. She is the author of four books including For Sabbath’s Sake: Embrassing your Need for Rest, Worship and Community, and Saffron Cross: The Unlikely Story of How a Christian Minister Married a Hindu Monk.

  • Ammiel Hirsch

    is Senior Rabbi at the famed Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, a Reform congregation in Manhattan, NY. In 2018 The Jerusalem Post named him among the “50 Most Influential Jews of the Year.”

  • Michael Fishbane

    is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the Divinity School, University of Chicago. He is the author of Sacred Attunement and Judaism: Revelations and Traditions

  • Thomas Kidd

    is an historian of American religion and distinguished professor at Baylor University and professor of Church history at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. His works include: America’s Religious History, American Christians and Islam, and American History.

  • Robert Barron

    is Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona-Rochester, MN. He is also founder of Word on Fire, a popular publisher and video content provider with more than 3 million Facebook followers.

  • Father Simeon Leiva-Merikakis

    is a member of the St. Joseph’s Abbey community of Trappist monks in Spencer, Massachusetts.

  • Father Emmanuel Morinelli

    is a member and Music Director for the St. Joseph’s Abbey community of Trappist monks in Spencer, Massachusetts.

  • Manis Friedman

    is an Hassid, Orthodox Rabbi, and popular author and speaker. He is also Dean of the Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies. His books include Doesn’t Anyone Blush Anymore and Creating a Life That Matters.

  • Judith Shulevitz

    is a journalist, a writer for Slate and the New York Times Book Review. She is the author of The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time, and is a Contributing Writer for The Atlantic.

  • Randy Roberts

    is senior pastor at Loma Linda University Church, a Seventh-day Adventist Church in Loma Linda, California.

  • Sigve Tonstad

    is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Loma Linda University School of Medicine and the author of The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day and God of Sense and Traditions of Non-sense

  • Tricia Bruce

    is an author and sociologist with the University of Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Religion and Society. She is the author of Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church.

  • Nathan Stucky

    is director of The Farminary Project at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, NJ. He is the author of Wrestling with Rest: Inviting Youth to Discover the Gift of Sabbath.

  • Walter Brueggemann

    is Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. He is the author numerous books including Sabbath As Resistance and The Prophetic Imagination

  • Michael Mickens

    is pastor of South Jackson Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jackson, MS

  • Joseph Tomas McKellar

    is a community organizer and Executive Director of PICO, California, the largest multi-racial faith-based community organizing network in the state.

  • Charlie Echeverry

    is an ordained Deacon for the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He is founder of the Black/Brown Collective, a Los Angeles based business collective.

  • Anna Serviansky

    is Camp Director and Head of Education for Ramah Darom, a Jewish summer camp that combines sports, the arts and outdoor adventures with a love of Jewish heritage and culture.

  • Richard Rice

    Theologian, Loma Linda University. Author of Suffering and the Search for Meaning.

  • Ron Pickell

    is Senior Pastor at Life Adventist Church at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been pastor of Life since 2001.

  • Khalid Latif

    is an Imam and Executive Director of the Islamic Center at New York University, New York. The Center serves not only NYU students but a diverse Muslim population in New York City. He also serves as a University Chaplain.

  • David Seidenberg

    is a rabbi, teacher and author of Kabbalah and Ecology: God’s Image in the More-Than-Human World. He is a consultant to Abundance Farm, a Jewish farming project in Northampton, MA.