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.

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.

Robert J. Higgs is the author of God in the Stadium: Sports and Religion in America (University Press of Kentucky, 1995) and co-author of An Unholy Alliance: The Sacred and Modern Sports (Mercer University Press, 2004). Contact via Mercer University Press.

Christina Cabeena wrote a paper on Las Vegas and nuns while she was doctoral student at the University of California, Santa Barbara.