Lisa Sideris is an associate professor of religious studies at Indiana University in Bloomington. Her research interests include religion and nature; environmental and animal ethics; science and religion; evolution controversies; religion and bioethic; and environmental history and literature. She wrote Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology and Natural Selection, which looks at Christian environmental ethics and its […]

Julia A. Upton is professor and provost at St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y. She is author of A Time for Embracing:  Reclaiming Reconciliation.

Sara Shady is an assistant professor of philosophy at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minn. She has worked on research involving environmental ethics.

Steven J. Sandage is associate professor of marriage and family studies at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minn. A psychologist, he is co-author of The Faces of Forgiveness: Searching for Wholeness and Salvation and To Forgive Is Human: How to Put Your Past in the Past.

Vince Waldron is professor of communication studies at Arizona State University . With his colleague Douglas Kelley, he is author of the scholarly text Communicating Forgiveness and the forthcoming general audience book Marriage Is For-Giving.

Douglas L. Kelley is associate professor of communication studies at Arizona State University , where he studies communication patterns in families and personal relationships. His recent published work has appeared in the Journal of Family Communication, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships and Communication Quarterly.With Vince Waldron, he is author of the scholarly text Communicating Forgiveness and the forthcoming general audience […]

Trudy Govier is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge , Alberta , Canada , where, in addition to other duties, she continues to research trust, forgiveness, reconciliation, argumentation and conflict resolution. Her books include Taking Wrongs Seriously: Acknowledgment, Reconciliation and the Politics of Sustainable Peace; A Practical Study of Argument; and Forgiveness and Revenge.

Louise Desalvo is the Jenny Hunter Endowed Scholar for Creative Writing and Literature at Hunter College at the City University of New York. She is the author of the memoirs Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family and the book Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our […]

Al Miles is the author of Domestic Violence: What Every Pastor Needs to Know and Violence in Families: What Every Christian Needs to Know. He lives in Honolulu and is a chaplain at The Queen’s Medical Center.