Authors

William J. Abraham is Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies, and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, Southern Methodist University, Perkins School of Theology. .....

Stefan Alkier (Ph.D., Bonn) is Professor of New Testament and the History of the Early Church, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main. .....

Mike Alsford is Senior Lecturer in Theology at the University of Greenwich, London, and the author of What If? Religious Themes in Science Fiction.

Bonnie Amos is a professor of Biology at Angelo State University.

Claire Hoertz Badaracco (Ph. D. Rutgers) is Full Professor in the College of Communication, Marquette University. .....

Nikki Bado-Fralick is Associate Professor and Director of the Religious Studies Program, Iowa State University. .....

Randall Balmer is Professor of American Religious History, Barnard College, Columbia University, and Visiting Professor, Yale Divinity School. .....

Barry Bandstra is Professor of Religion at Hope College.

Lewis M. Barker is a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Baylor University.

Beth Allison Barr is Assistant Professor of European Women’s History, Baylor University. Her research interests focus on sermon literature in England, 1350-1750, and she is the author of The Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval England. .....

Corey Beals is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at George Fox University.

C. Clifton Black (Ph.D., Duke University) is Otto A. Piper Professor of Biblical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. .....

Leonardo Boff is Emeritus Professor of Ethics, Religion, Philosophy and Ecology at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is also one of the founders of Liberation Theology. .....

Helen K. Bond studied at the Universities of St Andrews, Durham and Tübingen. She is Senior Lecturer in New Testament Language, Literature and Theology at the University of Edinburgh, where she has taught since 2000. .....

Elias K. Bongmba is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University.

François Bovon is Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion at Harvard Divinity School.

Tom Breen currently works as a reporter for The Associated Press. As "The Internet Theologian," his online musings about faith have been read by literally dozens of people, or, possibly, by one person with dozens of LiveJournal accounts. .....

Sally Bruyneel is Instructor in the Department of History and Theology, Luther Seminary, and the Department of Religion, Augsburg College. .....

Vicki Tolar Burton (Ph.D. Auburn University) is Associate Professor of English and Director, Writing Intensive Curriculum, Oregon State University.

Samuel Byrskog is Professor of New Testament, University of Lund. He is the author or editor of several books, including, most recently, Romarbrevet 1-8; Story as History—History as Story: The Gospel Tradition in the Context of Ancient Oral History; and Jesus the Only Teacher: Didactic Authority and Transmission in Ancient Israel, Ancient Judaism, and the Matthean Community. .....

Will D. Campbell is widely considered one of the nation's most important commentators on race, religion, and community. .....

David B. Capes chairs the Department of Christianity and Philosophy at Houston Baptist University. His books include Old Testament Yahweh Texts in Paul’s Christology (Mohr Siebeck, 1992), The Footsteps of Jesus in the Holy Land (Steimatsky, 1999), The Last Eyewitness: The Final Week (Thomas Nelson, 2006), and Rediscovering Paul: An Introduction to His World, Letters and Theology (InterVarsity, 2007). .....

Greg Carey (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is Professor of New Testament, Lancaster Theological Seminary. Carey has also written: Ultimate Things: An Introduction to Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Literature (2005), and Elusive Apocalypse: Reading Authority in the Revelation to John (1999).

Stephen C. Carlson is Partner in Ditthavong & Carlson (Fairfax, VA).

J.H. Charlesworth is the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and Editor and Director of the Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project. .....

Harry Clor (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Kenyon College. He is the author of: Public Morality and Liberal Society: Essays on Decency, Law, and Pornography (1996), The Mass Media and Modern Democracy: Essays (1974), and Obscenity and Public Morality: Censorship in a Liberal Society (1971).

Edgardo A. Colón-Emeric is Assistant Research Professor of Theology and Hispanic Studies, Duke University Divinity School. .....

A. J. Conyers (1946-2004) was Professor of Theology at the George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University. .....

Robert Darnton is professor of history at Princeton University.

Derek H. Davis is director of the J.M. Dawson Institute on Church-State Studies at Baylor University. Editor of the Journal of Church and State, his publications include Original Intent: Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course of American Church-State Relations (1991) and Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Contributions to Original Intent (2000). .....

Stephen T. Davis (Ph.D. Claremont Graduate University) is Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College. .....

April D. DeConick is the Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University (Houston, Texas). .....

John F. Desmond (Ph.D. University of Oklahoma) is Mary A. Denny Emeritus Professor of English, Whitman College. .....

Michael Domjan, Ph.D. IS Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas.

Shirley K. Drew (Ph.D. Bowling Green State University, Ohio) is Professor of Communication at Pittsburg State University, Kansas.

Susan J. Dunlap is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology, Duke Divinity School. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Mark A. Eaton is an associate professor of English at Azusa Pacific University.

Robert R. Ellis (Ph. D. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is Philips professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Logsdon School of Theology at Hardin-Simmons University. .....

Richard Leo Enos (Ph.D. Indiana University) is Professor and Holder of the Lillian Radford Chair of Rhetoric in the Department of English at Texas Christian University.

Tibebe Eshete (Ph.D. Michigan State University) is Assistant Professor of History, Calvin College. He is the recipient of the Compton Peace Fellowship Award 2003 and the Herbert C. .....

C. Stephen Evans is a University Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities at Baylor University. He is the author of more than sixteen books, including Kierkegaard's Ethic of Love (2004), Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics and Philosophy of Religion (2003), and The Historical Christ and the Jesus of Faith (1996). .....

Christopher H. Evans is Professor of the History of Christianity in the School of Theology, Boston University. .....

Ronald B. Flowers (Ph.D. University of Iowa) is John F. Weatherly Emeritus Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University. .....

Nancy Ruth Fox (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences and Associate Professor of Economics at Saint Joseph’s University.

Gregory E. Ganssle is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Senior Fellow of the Rivendell Institute at Yale University. .....

Diana R. Garland is Dean of the Baylor School of Social Work, Baylor University. She is the author or editor of eighteen books, including most recently Flawed Families of the Bible: How God’s Grace Works Through Imperfect Relationships, Sacred Stories of Ordinary Families, and Family Ministry: A Comprehensive Guide. .....

Duane A. Garrett (Ph.D. Baylor University) is John R. Sampey Professor of Old Testament Interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. .....

Bob M. Gassaway (Ph.D. University of Missouri) is Professor Emeritus of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico. .....

Edwin S. Gaustad is emeritus Professor of History, University of California, Riverside.

Frederick R. Gehlbach is Research Professor of Biology at Baylor University.

Michael J. Gilmour is the author of Call Me the Seeker: Listening to Religion in Popular Music and Tangled Up in the Bible: Bob Dylan and Scripture. .....

Michael P. Graves is Professor of Communication Studies in the School of Communication, Liberty University. He co-edited More Than Precious Memories: The Rhetoric of Southern Gospel Music. .....

Steven K. Green (J.D. University of Texas, Ph.D. University of North Carolina) is Professor of Law and Director, Center for Religion, Law and Democracy, Willamette University.

Emily Griesinger is professor of English at Azusa Pacific University.

Bonnie Haldeman was the mother of David Koresh and a surviving Branch Davidian. She lived, traveled, and worked with the Branch Davidians in Texas, California, and Hawaii from 1985 until 1991. .....

Judith P. Hallett (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Professor of Classics, University of Maryland, College Park. Other publications by Hallett include: Roman Sexualities (co-editor, 1997), Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship (1996), and Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite Family (1984).

Barry Hankins is Associate Professor of History and Church-State Studies at Baylor University. He is author of God's Rascal: J. .....

Trevor Hart (Ph D University of Aberdeen) is Professor of Divinity and former Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, now the director of the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, St. .....

Richard B. Hays (Ph.D., Emory University) is George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament, Duke Divinity School. .....

James A. W. Heffernan (Ph.D. Princeton) is Emeritus Professor of English at Dartmouth College.

James W. Henderson is the Ben H. Williams Professor in Economics at Baylor University and is the author of Health Economics and Policy (2005), The Financial Analyst's Deskbook (1989), and Obtaining Venture Financing (1988).

Michael Henderson is an English journalist. The author of nine books, his latest titles include, See You After the Duration (2004) and Forgiveness: Breaking the Chain of Hate (2002).

Shirl James Hoffman is Professor Emeritus of Exercise and Sport Science at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. .....

Carson Holloway (Ph.D. Northern Illinois University) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and a former William E. .....

Robert D. Holmstedt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto, where he teaches ancient Hebrew and Northwest Semitic languages.

Dwight N. Hopkins (Ph.D. Union Theological Seminary, New York and Ph.D. University of Cape Town, South Africa) is Professor of Theology at the Divinity School, University of Chicago.

Leroy A. Huizenga (Ph.D., Duke University) is Assistant Professor of New Testament, Wheaton College.

Michael J. Hyde is University Distinguished Professor of Communication Ethics in the Department of Communication and is on the faculty of the Program for Bioethics, Health and Society in the School of Medicine, Wake Forest University. .....

James D. Ivy teaches history at San Antonio College and holds a Ph.D. in History of American Civilization from Harvard University. .....

William Jackson (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis and Lake Scholar at the Lake Family Institute on Faith and Giving. .....

Leon Jaworski (LL.B. Baylor University and LL.M. George Washington University) served as Past President of the American Bar Association, Past President of the State Bar of Texas, and Past President of the American College of Trial Lawyers. .....

Werner H. Kelber is Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor Emeritus in Biblical Studies, Rice University. His other works include The Oral and the Written Gospel: The Hermeneutics of Speaking and Writing in the Synoptic Tradition; Mark, Paul, and Q; Mark’s Story of Jesus; and The Kingdom in Mark: A New Place and a New Time). .....

Sheila Kennedy (J.D. Indiana University School of Law) is Associate Professor of Law and Public Policy at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

Ivan Khovacs is Lecturer at the Institute of Theology, Imagination and the Arts, St. Andrews.

Jean Ngoya Kidula is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Georgia.

Roberta King is Associate Professor of Communication and Ethnomusicology at Fuller Theological Seminary.

Hans-Josef Klauck (Th. D. University of Munich) is the Naomi Shenstone Donnelly Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago. .....

James R. Krabill is Senior Executive for Global Ministries for the Mennonite Mission Network.

Robert Kysar is Bandy Professor of Preaching and New Testament, Emeritus, Emory University.

William J. Larkin is Professor of New Testament and Greek, Columbia International University, Seminary and School of Missions. .....

Timothy Larsen is Carolyn and Fred McManis Chair of Christian Thought at Wheaton College. Among other works, Larsen has authored Friends of Religious Equality: Nonconformist Politics in Mid-Victorian England and Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England.

Anthony Le Donne (Ph.D. Durham University) is the author of Historical Jesus: A Postmodern Paradigm (Eerdmans, 2010). .....

Peter J. Leithart is Senior Fellow of Theology and Literature, New St. Andrews College. He is the author of twenty books, including, most recently Writer of Fancy: The Playful Piety of Jane Austen (forthcoming), The Baptized Body; and The Promise of His Appearing. .....

D. Stephen Long (Ph.D. Duke) is Professor of Systematic Theology at Marquette University and is the author of The Goodness of God: Theology, Church, and the Social Order (2001).

Roger Lundin (Ph.D., University of Connecticut) is Blanchard Professor of English, Wheaton College. He is the author of a number of books, including: There Before Us: Religion, Literature, and Culture From Emerson to Wendell Berry, Editor (2007), From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority (2005), and Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief, 2nd ed. .....

Malcolm D. Magee (Ph.D. Michigan State University) is the director for the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture and has taught history and religious studies at Michigan State and continues to teach in the history department as a visiting faculty.

Elizabeth Struthers Malbon is Professor in the Religious Studies Program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. .....

Paul Martens is Assistant Professor of Religion, Baylor University.

Sheila Martin is a surviving Branch Davidian. She lost her husband and four oldest children in the fire on April 19, 1993 that ended the standoff between the Branch Davidians and federal agents. .....

Robert R. Mathisen (M.A. Ball State University) is Professor of History and Political Science at Corban College, Oregon.

Barbara A. McGraw (Ph.D. University of Southern California) is Associate Professor of Law and Ethics at Saint Mary’s College of California. .....

Scot McKnight is the Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies, North Park University and author or editor of twelve books, including The Historical Jesus (2005), Turning to Jesus (2002), and Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (1992).

Warren McWilliams is Professor of Religion and holder of the Auguie Henry Chair of Bible at Oklahoma Baptist University.

Michael Meckler (Ph.D. Michigan) is Resident Fellow, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

Darren J. N. Middleton (Ph.D. The University of Glasgow, Scotland) is Associate Professor of Literature and Theology at Texas Christian University. .....

Michael R. Miller is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

Troy A. Miller is Dean and Assistant Professor of Bible & Theology in the School of Bible & Theology at Crichton College (Memphis, TN). .....

Melanie B. Mills (Ph.D. Bowling Green State University, Ohio) is Professor of Communication Studies at Eastern Illinois University.

Kendal P. Mobley (Th.D., Boston University School of Theology) is the Senior Pastor at Enon Baptist Church, Salisbury, NC, and Adjunct Instructor in Church History, Pfeiffer University, Misenheimer, NC.

Helen Barrett Montgomery (1861-1934) was a social reformer, a Baptist leader, and a prominent intellectual of the American women’s ecumenical missionary movement. .....

Lois E. Myers is Associate Director of the Baylor Institute for Oral History and Secretary of the Texas Oral History Association. .....

Jacob Neusner is a Research Professor of Theology and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College. .....

Kenneth Newport (Ph.D. Oxford) is Professor of Christian Thought at Liverpool Hope University. Crawford Gribben (Ph. .....

Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, is Professor of Theology at Fredrich Schiller University of Jena. He lives in Jena, Germany.

David R. Nienhuis is Assistant Professor of New Testament and Director of the University Foundations Program at Seattle Pacific University. .....

Rebecca Sachs Norris is Associate Professor and Chair of Religious and Theological Studies, Merrimack College. She lives in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

Thomas A. Oduro is Senior Lecturer and Principal at Good News Theological College and Seminary.

Hauna Ondrey is currently an M.A. candidate in theology at North Park Theological Seminary.

Erik C. Owens is Assistant Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theology, Boston College. .....

Kim Paffenroth (Ph.D. Notre Dame) is Professor of Religious Studies at Iona College

Lee T. Pearcy is the Director of Curriculum and Lounsbery Chair in Classics at the Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania. .....

John L. Pisciotta Associate Professor of Economics at Baylor University, a Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and the author of Teacher Attitudes In Texas Public and Private High Schools (2000). .....

Matthew Porter is a Ph.D. candidate in Religion at Baylor University.