Jay Michael­son is an affil­i­at­ed assis­tant pro­fes­sor at Chica­go The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary and a vis­it­ing schol­ar at the Cen­ter for LGBTQ and Gen­der Stud­ies in Reli­gion, as well as a best­selling author and jour­nal­ist. He is the author of nine books, includ­ing Every­thing is God: The Rad­i­cal Path of Non­d­ual Judaism and God vs. Gay? The Reli­gious Case for Equal­i­ty, a Lamb­da Lit­er­ary Award final­ist. Out­side the acad­e­my, Michael­son is a colum­nist at New York mag­a­zine and an edi­tor at Ten Per­cent Hap­pi­er, hav­ing pre­vi­ous­ly been a colum­nist at The Dai­ly Beast for eight years and at the For­ward for many years before that. He is a fre­quent media com­men­ta­tor on issues of law and reli­gion, has twice won the New York Soci­ety for Pro­fes­sion­al Jour­nal­ists Award for opin­ion writ­ing, and has been fea­tured in the ​‘For­ward 50’ list of the most influ­en­tial Amer­i­can Jews.