Dr. Arik Greenberg is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Enlightened Religion Press.
An ardent advocate for religious tolerance, interfaith dialogue, and interreligious collaboration as a unified pathway to world peace, Greenberg serves on the Theology faculty of Loyola Marymount University as inaugural Clinical Assistant Professor in Interreligious Dialogue. He is also the founder and president of the Institute for Religious Tolerance, Peace and Justice.
The product of an interfaith marriage, he has studied numerous world religions, and received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Claremont Graduate University, specializing in New Testament and Christian Origins. Dr. Greenberg employs his primary training as a scholar of New Testament and Christian Origins as a jumping off point for both his academic and interfaith work, with a particular focus on the diversity of belief within early Christianity as a model for religious tolerance today.
His first book was entitled, My Share of God’s Reward. Exploring the Roles and Formulations of the Afterlife in Early Christian Martyrdom (Peter Lang, 2009). His three-part opus, The Exile, is the culmination of over a decade of work towards gaining his own enlightened measure of self-awareness, with a mature, restored relationship with the Divine.
Joel Weiner is co-founder and Managing Director/CFO of Enlightened Religion Press.
He is the Founder and President of the Alliance for Enlightened Religion, as well as its division, The Alliance for Enlightened Judaism.
In these tasks, he brings a lifetime of experience as a management consultant and Chief Financial Officer to numerous companies.
Joel is recognized as an expert in finance as well as strategic and marketing planning. He has helped companies, across the U.S, improve by streamlining their products, reorganizing their operations, and evolving their management information and processes. Joel’s forte is bridging cross-functional disciplines, promoting teamwork and mutual understanding which, needless to say, are skills that are sorely needed in the world religious community.
The former President of Temple Judea of Bucks County, a Reform synagogue, Joel was instrumental in engineering and leading a turnaround, breathing life into an organization that otherwise would have failed.
A graduate from Drexel University with a degree in mathematics, with an MBA from Wharton, Joel currently resides in New Hope, Pennsylvania with his wife Carol. Their children and grandchildren live in New Jersey. Joel also loves to swim, hike, bicycle, and play guitar.
Rabbi Michael Shevack is a co-founder and Creative Director of Enlightened Religion Press.
A Founder of The Alliance for Enlightened Religion, as well as its division, The Alliance for Enlightened Judaism, Shevack has been involved
in inter-religious dialogue around the world, for the past 30 years.
Shevack served as Director of Communications, for the Center for Inter-religious Dialogue, at Sacred Heart University in Bridgeport Connecticut. He was an adjunct professor, teaching Spirituality and Comparative Religion, on the graduate level, in the School of Social Welfare at S.U.N.Y., Stonybrook. He lectured in Business Spirituality at the Iacocca School for Global Entrepreneurship at Lehigh University, and had a column on Business Spirituality in Success magazine.
Shevack is the author/co-author of 7 books, including Our Age, The Historic New era of Christian-Jewish Understanding (New City Press), and more recently, The Six Fix. Spiritual Healthcare for a Stronger America. (Brains & Guts Entertainment.)
He is currently Social Responsibility Officer for The Patton Foundation, working with Helen Ayer Patton, granddaughter of General George S. Patton, and is on the board of the Association for Progressive Judaism.
Prior to his ordination, Shevack was an award-winning Madison Avenue Creative Director. He wrote the campaign Gillette. The Best a Man Can Get, still running in 120 countries. His work on Apple computers won a Silver Lion at Cannes. Shevack has helped numerous religious groups and non-profits find their voice.
