Matt Smith is pastor of Barabbas Road Church in La Jolla, Calif. He instituted a fitness ministry to attract new church members when other ministries failed.

Cissy Brady-Rogers is a marriage and family counselor in Arcadia, Calif., and was a contributor to The Religion of Thinness: Satisfying the Spiritual Hungers Behind Women’s Obsession With Food and Weight. She can discuss fitness, yoga, Christians practicing yoga, Christian-based weight loss, eating disorders, plastic surgery and sexuality. She can be contacted through her website.

The Christian Academy of Martial Arts is in Morgan Hill, Calif. It approaches martial arts with a Christian perspective.

Yahweh Yoga is a Christian-based yoga training academy that trains yoga teachers and offers Christ-oriented yoga classes. It is based in Chandler, Ariz.

Brooke Boon is the founder of Holy Yoga, a Christian-based yoga training and teaching program based in Moorehead, Minn.

Addis Moore is pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Kalamazoo, Mich. He founded the Living Well Fitness Center after he noticed many in his congregation struggling with weight and diabetes.

Donna Furmanek is a yoga teacher at the Academy of Creative Movement Yoga Studio in Orland Park, Ill. She is a Christian and wrote an article about the intersection of yoga and Christian spirituality as well as about the fear some Christians have of traditional yoga.

Dave Stone is senior minister of Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Ky., which has a sports and fitness ministry.

Henry Brinton is pastor of Fairfax Presbyterian Church in Virginia and co-author with Vik Khanna of Ten Commandments of Faith and Fitness (2008). Brinton wrote a June 10, 2008, article for The Washington Post about the intersection of faith and fitness.