Anthony B. Pinn is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Agnes Cullen Arnold Distinguished Professor of Humanities, and professor of religion at Rice University and teaches courses on African American religion, history of Black religious thought, humanism, and Black theology. He is the author of over thirty-five books, including The End of God-Talk: An African American Humanist Theology (2012), Varieties of African American Religious Experience (Fortress Press, 1998), and Interplay of Things (2021).