Joseph Cumming is a scholar of Islamic and Christian thought who serves as pastor of the International Church at Yale University^[2] and works internationally as a consultant on Muslim-Christian and Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations.^[3][4][5] He was one of the architects of the "Yale Response" to the Common Word initiative of 138 prominent Muslim leaders and scholars.^[6][7] He is also International Director of Doulos Community,^[8] a humanitarian organization working in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania,^[9] and is past president of the Federation of NGOs in Mauritania.^[10] Cumming has published numerous articles^[11] on issues affecting relations among the Abrahamic faith communities. He has lectured in Arabic at Al-Azhar University and other Islamic institutions and has taught courses at Yale Divinity School, as well as at Fuller Theological Seminary and other Evangelical institutions.^[12] He has been interviewed in Arabic on Al-Jazeera and other Arab television networks,^[13][14][15] and in English on American^{[16][17][18][19][20]} and Canadian^[21][22] television and radio, and in French and German by European and African news media.^[4]