Heidi Schlumpf is an award-winning journalist and podcaster with three decades of experience covering religion, spirituality, as well as political, social, and women’s issues. She spent 16 years with National Catholic Reporter as a columnist, correspondent, and executive editor/vice president. She previously served as managing editor of U.S. Catholic magazine and a reporter at Chicago’s archdiocesan newspaper. Her work has appeared in Mother Jones, CNN Opinion, Religion News Service, Commonweal, and Sojourners.
Schlumpf has been a cohost of the Francis Effect podcast for five years. She also is a part-time faculty member in theology at Loyola University Chicago. She previously taught journalism as an associate professor of communication at Aurora University in Chicago.
A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, she also earned a master’s of theological studies from Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary at Northwestern University, where she studied with feminist theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether.
She is the author/editor of Elizabeth A. Johnson: Questing for God (2016), the Notre Dame Book of Prayer (2010), and While We Wait: Spiritual & Practical Advice for Those Trying to Adopt (2009).
