Read a Beliefnet.com article about W. Deen Mohammed’s decision to step down as head of the American Society of Muslims.

Allen P. Ross is Beeson Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Beeson Divinity School at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. He was a member of the team that reviewed the ESV Bible translation.

Ray Van Neste is assistant professor of Christian studies and director of the R.C. Ryan Center for Biblical Studies at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.

Laurie Maffly-Kipp is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She edited the Penguin Classics edition American Scriptures and can talk about the role of the King James Bible in American religious history.

Executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition, a lobbying group dedicated to promoting Bible-based values in the nation’s laws.

David Lyle Jeffrey is Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities at Baylor University and author of The King James Bible and the World It Made, which was published in November 2011.

Michael Josephson is founder and president of the Josephson Institute of Ethics and CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition.

Hans J. Hillerbrand teaches religion at Duke University. His specialty is the Reformation, and he has written about the King James Bible.

David Callahan is author of The Cheating Culture: Why More American are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead (Harcourt, 2004) and co-founder of the public policy center Demos.