Guest Speakers
The Yale Forum on Faith and Politics has been fortunate to host a wide variety of authors, activists, politicians, and scholars.
In the past few years, we’ve enjoyed panels and conversations with Jim Wallis, Serene Jones, John DiIulio, Amy Sullivan, David Kuo, Mary Habeck, Rabbi Saperstein, Miroslav Volf … the list goes on and on.
For a comprehensive look at who we’ve enjoyed conversing with, see below.
Bob Abernethy (Host, Religion & Ethics News Weekly)
Randall Balmer (Professor, Columbia University; Author, God in the White House)
Paul Baumann (Editor, Commonweal Magazine)
Greg Boyd (Author, The Myth of the Christian Nation)
Henry Brinton (Pastor, Columnist and Author, Balancing Act)
Jennifer Butler (Executive Director, Faith in Public Life)
Stephen Carter (Professor, Yale Law School)
Richard Cizik (VP, National Association of Evangelicals)
Andy Crouch (Editorial Director, Christianity Today)
John DiIulio (Former Director, White House Faith-Based Initiative)
Barrett Duke (VP, Southern Baptist Convention)
Dobkin Hall (Professor, Harvard University)
Mickey Edwards (Fmr. Republican Congressman; Author, Reclaiming Conservatism)
Robert George (Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University)
Philip Gorski (Professor of Sociology, Yale University)
Mary Habeck (Author, Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology)
Seamus Hasson (Founder, The Becket Fund; Author, The Right to be Wrong)
David Heim (Executive Editor, Christian Century)
Willis Jenkins (Author, Ecologies of Grace)
Serene Jones (President, Union Theological Seminary)
David Kinnaman (Barna Research; Author, un-Christian)
Richard Land (President, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission)
D. Michael Lindsay (Author, Faith in the Halls of Power)
Flo McAfee (Former White House Religious Liaison for President Clinton)
Dan Merchant (Director, Lord, Save Us From Your Followers)
David Miller (Executive Director, The Avodah Institute)
David Neff (Editor, Christianity Today)
Marvin Olasky (Editor, World Magazine)
Norman Ornstein (Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute)
Ralph Reed (former Executive Director, Christian Coalition)
Lamin Sanneh (Professor of World Christianity, Yale University)
Rabbi David Saperstein (Director, Religious Action Center)
Eric Sapp (Democratic Consultant, Common Good Strategies)
Ron Sider (President and Founder, Evangelicals for Social Action)
Mark Totten (Fellow, Yale Center for Faith & Culture)
Tyler Wigg Stevenson (Coordinator, Faithful Security)
Amy Sullivan (Political Editor, Time Magazine)
Marisa van Saanen (Author, Development and Faith)
Harry Stout (Prof. of US Religious History, Yale University)
Richard Viguerie (Author, Conservatives Betrayed)
Miroslav Volf (Director, Yale Center for Faith & Culture)
Jim Wallis (Founder, Sojourners; Author, God’s Politics)
Peggy Wehmeyer (Host, World Vision Report; former ABC Reporter)