Lance Nelson is professor of theological and religious studies at the University of San Diego. He is an expert on religion and ecology in Hindu India, including the religion’s attitudes toward animals.

Vijaya Nagarajan is an associate professor in the college of arts and sciences at the University of San Francisco, where she teaches on religion and the environment. She is an expert in the religious traditions and ecology of South India.

Heather Ann Clements is a professor of systematic theology at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, Calif. She has written about an Anabaptist and Mennonite environmental ethic.

George Daley is a stem cell biologist with the Whitehead Institute and Harvard Medical School. He supports a bill that would allow embryonic stem cell research in Massachusetts.

Susan P. Bratton is a professor in the environmental studies department at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, with an expertise in the interface between religion and environmental ethics. She is the author of Environmental Values in Christian Art (2007).

Thomas Anthony Shannon is professor of religion and ethics at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass. He wrote Made in Whose Image?: Genetic Engineering and Christian Ethics (Humanity Books, 2000) and co-wrote New Genetic Medicine: Theological and Ethical Reflections (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).

Alicia McNary Forsey is a research professor at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, Calif. She authored an essay, “Attitudes About Money in Theological Schools.”

Gregory Schopen is a professor of South Asian Buddhism in the department of Asian languages and cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written on the role of money in Buddhism, especially in India.

Michael David Bonner is a professor of Near Eastern studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He has written on money and Islam, including the entry “Wealth” in the Encyclopedia of the Qur’an.