Daniel B. McGee is a professor of ethics at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He wrote the article “A Consistent Center for Bioethics” for the Theological Educator: A Journal of Theology and Ministry.

Wendy Baldwin is vice president for research at the University of Kentucky in Louisville. She has argued before the Kentucky state legislature in favor of embryonic stem cell research.

M. Therese Lysaught is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Dayton in Ohio. She wrote the article “What Would You Do If …? Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and the Defense of the Innocent” for Stem Cell Research: New Frontiers in Science and Ethics (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003).

Brent Waters is a professor of Christian social ethics for Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill. He co-edited God and the Embryo: Religious Voices on Stem Cells and Cloning. He studies Christian ethics and can discuss their relationship to Christian political thought.

James M. Childs Jr. is a professor at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. He wrote the 1991 article “Genetics, ethics and the human future” for the Trinity Seminary.

Dena S. Davis is a professor at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University in Cleveland. She wrote the article “Informed Consent for Stem Cell Research in the Public Sector” for the Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association.

Jefferson McMahan is a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University. He wrote the article “Cloning, Killing and Identity” for the Journal of Medical Ethics.

Read a June 22, 2005, Christian Science Monitor story on the debate stem cell research is sparking in Muslim countries.

Read a Jan. 8, 2009, essay that attempts to find the line between teaching church doctrine and preparing ministers to help their congregations.