Authors

William J. Abraham is Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies, and Altschuler 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.

G. Douglas Atkins is Professor of English at the University of Kansas. His previous books include Reading Essays: An Invitation and Tracing the Essay: Through Experience to Truth. .....

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.

Brian Bantum is Assistant Professor of Theology at Seattle Pacific University School of Theology. He lives in Seattle, Washington. .....

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. .....

Richard Bauckham is Professor of New Testament Studies and Bishop Wardlaw Professor at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. .....

Timothy A. Beach-Verhey is Pastor of Faison Presbyterian Church in North Carolina. He previously served as Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Program for the Theological Exploration of Vocation at Davidson College. .....

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

David W. Bebbington is Professor of History at the University of Stirling. His previous books include The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer and Politics and The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody. .....

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).

Jonathan Chaplin is Director of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics, Tyndale House, Cambridge, U. .....

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. .....

Esther Chung-Kim is Assistant Professor of History of Christianity in the Department of Historical Studies at the Claremont School of Theology. .....

J. Caleb Clanton is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Seaver Fellow in the Humanities at Pepperdine University. .....

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. .....

Jane Hampton Cook is an author, historian, and media analyst. She lives in the Washington, D.C., area.

Douglas E. Cowan is Professor of Religious Studies, Renison University College, University of Waterloo. .....

Martin M. Culy is Associate Professor of New Testament at Briercrest Biblical Seminary. Culy earned an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of North Dakota, an M. .....

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. .....

Miguel A. De La Torre is Professor of Social Ethics at Iliff School of Theology.  His previous books include The Hope for Liberation in World Religions and Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins. .....

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. .....

Erin Dobbins is a recent graduate of Baylor University. She lives in Waco, Texas.

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

Terence L. Donaldson is Lord and Lady Coggan Professor of New Testament Studies at Wycliffe College and the Director of Advanced Degree Programs at the Toronto School of Theology. .....

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

Mark Dubis is Associate Professor of Christian Studies in the School of Christian Studies at Union University. .....

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.

Laura L. Ellingson is Associate Professor of Communication and Women's & Gender Studies at Santa Clara 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 Sallie Knowles Crozer Professor of Church History, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, Rochester, New York. .....

Reinhard Feldmeier is Professor of New Testament at Göttingen, and guest professor at Sao Leopoldo, Brazil. .....

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.

Curtis W. Freeman is Research Professor of Theology and Director of the Baptist House of Studies at Duke Divinity School. .....

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

Kevin J. Gardner is Associate Professor of English at Baylor University. He is the editor of Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of his Religious Verse. .....

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. .....

Greg Garrett is Professor of English at Baylor University. He is author of the critically acclaimed novel Free Bird, selected as one of the best first novels in 2002 by Publisher’s Weekly and the Denver Rocky Mountain News, as well as The Gospel According to Hollywood and Holy Superheroes. .....

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.

Mario Geymonat, a leading, world-class scholar of antiquity, has taught at the University Ca'Foscari of Venice, and at the Universities of Milan, Calabria, and Siena. .....

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. .....

Roger S. Gottlieb is Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.  A contributing editor to Tikkun and a prolific author, his most recent books include A Greener Faith:  Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet’s Future, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology, and A Spirituality of Resistance:  Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth. .....

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. .....

Phillip W. Gray taught at various universities in Hong Kong. His research focuses on international political theory, morality in warfare, and totalitarian politics. .....

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.

Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad is Professor of History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown 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).

Jewly Hight is a music writer whose work has appeared in No Depression, American Songwriter, Performing Songwriter, Relix, The Nashville Scene, The Christian Century, and a number of other publications. .....

Laura Hobgood-Oster is Professor of Religion and Environmental Studies and holds the Paden Chair in Religion at Southwestern University. .....

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.

David G. Horrell is Professor of New Testament Studies and Director of the Centre for Biblical Studies at the University of Exeter, U. .....

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

Cherryl Hunt is an Associate Research Fellow of the University of Exeter, U.K.

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. .....

David Jasper is Professor of Literature and Theology, University of Glasgow. His previous books include The Sacred Desert: Religion, Literature, Art and Culture and The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology. .....

Sara R. Jordan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at The Graduate School at the University of Hong Kong, where she works on ethics for civil service and research ethics. .....

Robert Joustra is on staff at the Canadian think-tank Cardus, where he was lead researcher on the project “Stained Glass Urbanism. .....

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. .....

Bill J. Leonard is Dean of the School of Divinity and Professor of Church History, Wake Forest University. A prolific writer, his most recent books include Baptist Questions, Baptist Answers: Exploring Christian Faith (2008), Baptists in America (2007), and Baptist Ways: A History (2003). .....

Matthew Levering is a Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Dayton.

Andrew Linzey is Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and a member of the Faculty of Theology at at Oxford University. .....

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. .....

Kristy Maddux is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland. Her work has been published by many journals, including Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Philosophy & Rhetoric, Feminist Media Studies, and Women’s Studies in Communication. .....

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. .....

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. .....

Susan Mullally is Assistant Professor of Art at Baylor University. Mullally’s work has appeared in Ms. .....

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

Fred Parker is Fellow of Clare College and Senior Lecturer in English at Cambridge University. His previous books are Johnson’s Shakespeare and Skepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson. .....

Mikeal Parsons is Professor of Religion at Baylor University. Parsons earned his Ph.D. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and is the author of The Departure of Jesus in Luke-Acts (1987); Rethinking the Unity of Luke and Acts (1993); and, with Heidi J. .....

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

M. G. Piety is Associate Professor of Applied Ethics, Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Religion at Drexel University. .....

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). .....

Stanley E. Porter is President and Dean of McMaster Divinity College, Ontario, where he is also Professor of New Testament. .....

Wilhelm Pratscher is University Professor of New Testament Studies in the Faculty for Protestant Theology at the University of Vienna, Austria. .....

Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918) was the major exponent of the Social Gospel movement of the early twentieth century. .....

Esther D. Reed is Associate Professor of Theological Ethics, University of Exeter, and the author of The Future of Christian Social Ethics (2004), The Genesis of Ethics (2002), and Theological Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1996).

Tom Regan is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University. Among his major contributions are The Case for Animal Rights; The Struggle for Animal Rights; Defending Animal Rights; Animal Rights, Human Wrongs: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy; and, his newest book, Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights. .....

Peter Richardson (Ph.D. Cambridge University), Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, is the author or editor of eleven books on Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity, including City and Sanctuary: Religion and Architecture in the Roman Near East (2002) and Herod the Great: King of Jews and Friend of Romans (1999). .....

Daniel E. Ritchie is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Humanities Program at Bethel University in St. .....

Melissa Rogers (J.D. University of Pennsylvania School of Law) is Visiting Professor of Religion and Public Policy and Director, Center for Religion and Public Affairs, at Wake Forest University Divinity School.

Amy Rowe served as Director of Country Programs at the Institute for Global Engagement until September 2007, where she helped convene the Institute's international dialogues on religion, security, and rule of law in Europe and Asia.

Michael A. Rutz is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. .....

Donald D. Schmeltekopf is Provost Emeritus and Hazel and Harry Chavanne Professor of Christian Ethics in Business at Baylor University.

Chris Seiple is President of the Institute for Global Engagement and the founder of the Council on Faith & International Affairs.

Christopher R. Seitz (Ph.D. Yale) is Professor of Old Testament and Theological Studies, University of Saint Andrews, Scotland. .....

Gary S. Selby is the Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Communication at Seaver College, Pepperdine University.

Preston Shires (Ph D University of Nebraska) is Instructor in History, SE Community College in Lincoln, NE

Glenn W. Shuck is Assistant Professor of Religion at Williams College.

Debora Kuller Shuger is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has written numerous books, including Censorship and Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England (2006) and Political Theologies in Shakespeare’s England (2001). .....

James K. A. Smith (Ph.D. Villlanova University) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College. The author and editor of more than five books, including, most recently, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church (2006), and Jacques Derrida: Live Theory (2005).

R. Drew Smith is Scholar-in-Residence and Project Director of “Public Influences of African-American Churches Project” and of the “Faith Communities and Urban Families Project” at Morehouse College in Atlanta.

Allen Smith is Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Glasgow and author of From Pulpit to Fiction: Sermonic Texts and Fictive Transformations. .....

C. John Sommerville (Ph.D. University of Iowa) is Emeritus Professor of History, University of Florida. He is the author of nine books, including most recently, The Decline of the Secular University (2006), How the News Makes Us Dumb: The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society (1999), and The News Revolution in England: Cultural Dynamic of Daily Information (1996).

Patricia J. Sotirin is Associate Professor of Communication at Michigan Technological University. She lives in the Houghton, Michigan, area. .....

Christopher Southgate is a Research Fellow of the University of Exeter, U.K., and Dean of Studies of the South West Ministry Training Course. .....

Gregory A. Staley (Ph.D. Princeton University) is Associate Professor of Classics, University of Maryland, College Park and a Rome Prize Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

Rodney Stark (Ph.D. University of California, Berkley) University Professor of Social Sciences at Baylor University. .....

Joshua J. Stigall is a Ph.D. candidate in Religion at Baylor University. He lives in Waco, Texas.

Todd D. Still is Associate Professor of Christian Scriptures, George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University. .....

Dan R. Stiver (Ph.D. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the Cook-Derrick Professor of Theology at Logsdon School of Theology, Hardin-Simmons University. .....

Christopher Stray (Ph.D. University of Wales) is Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Classics, Ancient History, and Egyptology, Swansea University. .....

John M. Stroup is Harry and Hazel Chavanne Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University.

Kristin M. Swenson (Ph.D. Boston University) is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the School of World Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Alfred I. Tauber is Professor of Philosophy and Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University. .....

Marion Ann Taylor is Associate Professor of Old Testament at the University of Toronto.

H. Knox Thames is Director of Policy and Research at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Previously he was Foreign Affairs Officer at the U. .....

Tom Thatcher is Professor of Biblical Studies at Cincinnati Christian University.

Roger Thompson (Ph.D. Texas Christian University) is Associate Professor of English and Fine Arts at the Virginia Military Institute. .....

W. Dennis Tucker, Jr. is Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Christian Scriptures, George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University. .....

Dennis Tucker is Assistant Professor of Christian Scriptures for George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University, Waco, TX. .....

W. Craig Turner received the Ph.D. from Tulane University in 1977. He has published articles in the areas of Victorian English literature and American literature and collaborated on a book called Critical Essays on American Humor with W. .....

Raymond Van Dam is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. His most recent books include Becoming Christian: The Conversion of Roman Cappadocia and The Roman Revolution of Constantine. .....

Dr. Carl G. Vaught was appointed Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University in 1998. He received his B. .....

Jason E. Vickers is Associate Professor of Theology and Wesleyan Studies, United Theological Seminary, Dayton, OH. .....

Dianna M. Vitanza is Associate Professor of English at Baylor University.

Robert W. Wall is the Paul T. Walls Professor of Scripture and Wesleyan Studies at Seattle Pacific University. He is the author of Called to Be Church, The New Interpreter's Bible: Acts (Volume 10), and Community of the Wise: The Letter of James (New Testament in Context). .....

Ann Ward (Ph.D. Fordham University) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Classics-Political Studies, Campion College, University of Regina.

Patricia A. Ward is Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University where she served as Director of the W. .....

Pete Ward is Senior Lecturer in Youth Ministry and Theological Education at King’s College, London. His previous books include Liquid Church and God at the Mall. .....

Duane F. Watson (Ph.D. Duke University) is Professor of New Testament Studies at Malone College. His most recent titles include The Rhetoric of the New Testament: A Bibliographic Survey (2006), Fabrics of Discourse: Essays in Honor of Vernon K. .....

C. Douglas Weaver is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Religion, Baylor University. He is the author or editor of six books, including most recently In Search of the New Testament Church: The Baptist Story (2008), Second to None: A History of Second-Ponce de Leon.

Heather E. Weir is Instructor at the Toronto School of Theology at Wycliffe College.

Catherine Wessinger (Ph.D. University of Iowa) is the Rev. H. James Yamauchi, S.J. Professor in Arts and Sciences and she is Professor of the History of Religions in the Religious Studies Department, Loyola University, New Orleans. .....

Elwyn A. Wienandt is professor of musicology in the Baylor University School of Music. He has published more than 110 compositions for vocal and instrumental ensembles, editions, arrangements, and original works. .....

Rowan Williams (Ph.D. Wadham College, Oxford) is the Archbishop of Canterbury. Having received his D. Phil. From Oxford, he held a variety of academic posts in Oxford and Cambridge, before leaving the Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity at Oxford to be successfully Bishop of Monmouth and the Archbishop of Wales. .....

Diane Winston (Ph.D., Princeton University) is Associate Professor and Knight Chair in Media and Religion, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. .....

Ben Witherington III is Amos Professor for Doctoral Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary. He is the author of more than thirty books, including, most recently The Living Word of God: Rethinking the Theology of the Bible, and Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord’s Supper. .....

Alan Wolfe is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College. .....

Ralph C. Wood is University Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor University. He is the author of Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South and Literature and Theology.

Robert A. Wortham is Professor of Sociology, North Carolina Central University. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

George Yancey is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas. His most recent books include Interracial Families: Current Concepts and Controversies and Interracial Contact and Social Change. .....

Scott Yenor is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the American Founding Initiative at Boise State University. .....

John Howard Yoder (1926-1997), a highly influential Mennonite theologian, was Professor of Theology and Teaching Fellow in the Joan B. .....

Amos Yong (Ph.D. Boston University) is Professor of Theology at the Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and is the author of five books, the latest being The Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh: Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theology (2005).

Tripp York (Ph.D. Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University.

Andrew Young was born in New Orleans in 1932. In 1960, he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. .....