Dan Wakefield is a veteran writer and Unitarian in Boston whose newest book is The Hijacking of Jesus: How the Religious Right Distorts Christianity and Promotes Prejudice and Hate (Nation Books, 2006). Read an excerpt in the April 24, 2006, issue of The Nation.

Robert Jensen is a an associate professor of journalism at the University of Texas-Austin, where he teaches media law, ethics and politics. He is the author of the 2009 book, All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice, which recounts his return to church and his commitment to progressive social activism.

David Grubin is producer and director of the PBS television special Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, which aired as part of American Experience and included discussions of Lincoln’s faith.

Matthew Scully is the author of Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals and the Call to Mercy, which argues for decent treatment of animals from various points of view, including religious. He is a Los Angeles-based journalist and a  former speechwriter for Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

Vegetarian Friends is a Quaker organization dedicated to helping Quakers and others keep a vegetarian diet. The group publishes a monthly journal, The Peaceable Table.

Zoo Torah is the blog of Israeli Rabbi Natan Slifkin, who uses the Jewish scriptures to teach about Judaism and its relation to animals.

Humane Religion was once a bimonthly magazine devoted to promoting a Christianity dedicated to animal welfare, based in Sarasota, Fla. It is affiliated with all-creatures.org.

The Animals Voice is a nonprofit animal rights organization that publishes an online magazine of the same name. It is based in Chico, Calif. Contact through the website.

Written by Tyron Inbody (2007). Inbody analyzes and assesses the notion of an all-loving and omnipotent Deity found in classical religion and concludes with a radical reinterpretation of the Christian God as a vulnerable, transforming God, one recognized by both process and Trinitarian theology.