Mathew Schmalz is a father, husband, and Roman Catholic scholar teaching at a Jesuit college in Massachusetts, USA. His teaching and research cover Comparative Religions, global Catholicism, Catholic theology and spirituality, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Jehovah's Witnesses. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Global Catholicism, author of Mercy Matters: Opening Yourself to the Life Changing Gift (OSV, 2016), and co-editor of Engaging South Asian Religions: Boundaries, Appropriations, and Resistances (SUNY, 2012). With his family, Mathew also cares for a large standard poodle, a pot-belly pig, a gecko, and two chickens.