Longtime journalist and author Mark I. Pinsky has reported on racial and criminal justice, Sun Belt evangelicals, faith and animation, and Jews of the Diaspora for more than 50 years. He is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and the Orlando, Fl, Sentinel, and is the author of seven nonfiction books, including A Jew Among the Evangelicals: A Guide for the Perplexed. His work appears in The Jewish Daily Forward, Tablet and Moment, as well as the New Republic online.