Jan Willis is a professor emerita of religion at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She is one of the earliest American scholar-practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism. Time named her one of six “spiritual innovators for the new millennium,” while Ebony called her one of its “Power 150” most influential African Americans. Some of her books include […]

Peter Althouse is an associate professor of religion at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Fla. He is an expert on Pentecostalism and charismatic renewal and has studied the growth of both in Canada.

Kenneth Archer is a professor of Pentecostal theology and Christian studies at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Fla. He is also the president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies.

Steve Almond is the author of Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto, in which he describes how he decided to give up watching NFL games because of growing concern about brain injury among players. He lives in Boston.

Lee M. DelleMonache is director of the Neumann University Institute for Sport, Spirituality and Character Development at Neumann University in Aston, Pa.

Craig A. Forney is assistant professor of religious studies at Palomar College in San Marcos, Calif. He is the author of The Holy Trinity of American Sports: Civil Religion in Football, Baseball and Basketball.

Eric Bain-Selbo is associate professor and department head of philosophy and religion at Western Kentucky University. He is the author of Game Day and God: Football, Faith and Politics in the American South.

Michael W. Austin is a philosophy professor at Eastern Kentucky University whose areas of interest include the philosophy of religion and philosophy of sports. His books include (as editor) Football and Philosophy: Going Deep.

Jeffrey Scholes is assistant professor of religious studies in the philosophy department at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He has written a number of articles about sports and religion and is co-author of Religion and Sports in American Culture.