Melissa Harris-Perry is a professor of political science at Tulane University in New Orleans, host of MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” and author of Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought (Princeton University Press, 2004).

Bruce David Forbes is a professor of religious studies at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, specializing in religion in America and religion and popular culture. He is co-editor of Rapture, Revelation and the End Times: Exploring the ‘Left Behind’ Series. Forbes also co-edited the book Religion and Popular Culture in America.

Geoffrey Layman is chair of the political science department at the University of Notre Dame and co-editor of the journal Political Behavior. He wrote The Great Divide: Religious and Cultural Conflict in American Party Politics.

Russell Arben Fox is a political science professor at Friends University in Wichita, Ks. On In Medias Res, a blog of his writings, he has written that the Democratic Party has abandoned religious progressives. He has called for transformation of America’s political and party system.

Marie Failinger teaches law at Hamline University in St. Paul and edits The Journal of Law and Religion.

Timothy L. Fort is The Lindner-Gambal Professor of Business Ethics and Executive Director of the Institute for Corporate Responsibility at the George Washington University School of Business. He has published articles on religion, ethics and the workplace.

David Krueger holds the chair in managerial and corporate ethics at the division of business administration at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. He is the author of Productive Justice and the Modern Business Corporation in a Global Economy (Abingdon Press, 1997) and Keeping Faith at Work: The Christian in the Workplace (Abingdon Press, 1994).

Emily Albrink Fowler Hartigan is a professor of law at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio who specializes in law and religion.

Mark C. Modak-Truran teaches law at Mississippi College in Jackson and specializes in law and religion.