Dane Claussen is James Pedas professor of communication, Executive Director of the James Pedas Communication Center, and Chair of the department of media, comm. and public relations  at Thiel College in Greenville, Pa. He is an expert on Promise Keepers and other “masculine Christianity” movements.  

Linda T. Skolnik is co-author of The Knitting Way: A Guide to Spiritual Self-Discovery (Skylight Paths, 2005). Skolnik is the former owner of Patternworks, a knitting company, in Center Harbor, New Hampshire.

Bernadette Murphy is the author of Zen and the Art of Knitting: Exploring the Links Between Knitting, Spirituality and Creativity (Adams Media Corp., 2002). She is a fiction writer and instructor at Antioch University in Los Angeles.

Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi is a quilter whose work is included in the Smithsonian Museum’s collection. She is the founder and director of the Women of Color Quilters Network. She was the co-curator of a quilt show titled “Threads of Faith” at the American Bible Society in New York City. She lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Barbara Brewer Davis is the co-author of With Sacred Threads: Quilting and the Spiritual Life (Pilgrim Press, 2000) and an avid quilter.

Corky Kuhlman is the president of The Prayer Quilt Ministry, commonly known as Prayers & Squares, an international ministry that performs quilting as a form of intercessory prayer.

Rachel Wagner is an associate professor of religion and philosophy at Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y. She has taught courses on religion and video games and is interested in the ways video and computer games depict rituals and sacred space, such as churches and cemeteries.

Tony Ladd is athletic director at Trinity International University and co-author of Muscular Christianity: Evangelical Protestants and the Development of American Sport (Baker Books, 1999).

Allen E. Hye is the author of The Great God Baseball: Religion in Modern Baseball Fiction (Mercer University Press, 2004). He was a professor of Danish and German at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the Popular Culture Association.