Anson Laytner is currently serves as President of the Sino-Judaic Institute and edits its journal Points East. He is also president of Northwest Interfaith and active with Paths to Understanding, End of Life Washington, Kol HaNeshamah, J Street and the New Israel Fund.

He is the author of the newly published The Mystery of Suffering and the Meaning of God: Autobiographical and Theological Reflections (Wipf and Stock, 2019), co-editor with Jordan Paper of The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng: A Millennium of Adaptation and Endurance (Lexington, 2017), co-author with Dan Bridge, of The Animals’ Lawsuit Against Humanity (Fons Vitae, 2005), and author of the cult classic Arguing with God: A Jewish Tradition (Jason Aronson, 1998). He also has authored over seventy articles on subjects ranging from Jewish theology to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the Chinese Jews.