Christine E. Gudorf, professor of religious studies at Florida International University in Miami, has written about the issues of integrating ethics into hospital care. She teaches a course on reproductive ethics and wrote a chapter on contraception and abortion among Catholics for the book Sacred Rights: The Case for Contraception and Abortion in World Religions.

Philip A.D. Schneider, professor emeritus of philosophy and religion at Coastal Carolina University, wrote a paper on his study of 12 hospital ethics committees in eastern South Carolina.

Kenneth R. White is a professor of health administration at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Allied Health Professions in Richmond. He is a registered nurse with clinical and administrative experience and has also worked in hospital operations and marketing. He has written about end-of-life care, charity care, HIV care and the administrative concerns unique to […]

Ruth Gaare Bernheim, an attorney and public health expert, is associate director of the University of Virginia Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life. She has served as an adviser to numerous hospital ethics boards and has taught a course on ethical issues in the evolving care delivery system.

Debra Sabia, a former associate professor of political science with a specialty in Latin America at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, has published three books, Contradiction and Conflict: The Popular Church in Nicaragua (1997), The American Myth of Democracy: A Crisis of Consciousness (2010), and Imagining Democracy (2012). She is also the author of a […]

James Dawsey, professor of religious studies at Emory & Henry College in Emory, Va., has written about liberation theology and economic development.

Marc Ellis is retired Professor of Jewish Studies, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He has written about a Jewish theology of liberation and about the future of liberation theology. He wrote Practicing Exile: The Religious Odyssey of an American Jew.

Paul R. Dekar is Professor Emeritus of Evangelism and Mission at the Memphis Theological Seminary in Memphis, Tenn. He wrote the article “The Inspiration of Martin Luther King Jr. for Nonviolent Justice Seekers in Latin America and the Caribbean” for the Memphis Theological Seminary Journal (1997).

The Rev. Daisy Machado is Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Church History at Union Theological Seminary, New York. She has written about Latina feminist theology, the border, immigrant issues and globalization.