Nebraska Religious Coalition for Science Education is a group of Nebraskans of different religious backgrounds who proclaim the compatibility of evolution and theology. Contact Chuck Austerberry.

The Colorado Evolution Response Team is a group of science professionals who have organized to rebut anti-evolutionary claims.

Kansas Citizens for Science is a not-for-profit educational organization that advocates for science education. Harry McDonald is the president. Similar organizations exist in several other states.

C. Smalley is president of Arizona Theological Seminary and Bible College. In the school’s academic philosophy, which Smalley wrote, the school bills itself as favoring “academy model” over the “university model” of education adopted by most seminaries. It has also forgone accreditation with non-Christian educational entities. Contact

David Buschart is a professor of theology and historical studies at Denver Seminary. He has written that the challenges facing seminaries reflect the social, economic and cultural shifts affecting all institutions.

Ann Jefferson is program coordinator for Theological Education for Leadership, a new distance learning program at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif.

Robert Freeman is assistant professor of distance learning at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif.

Sharon Daloz Parks is a senior fellow at the Whidbey Institute at Chinook in Clinton, Wash. In 2010, she spoke before the faculty at Washington Theological Consortium on the subject of challenges to contemporary theological education.

Malcolm L. Warford served as director of the Lexington Seminar, a 10-year project on theological teaching for the church’s ministries supported by the Lilly Endowment and sponsored by Lexington Theological Seminary. He is the editor of Revitalizing Practice: Collaborative Models for Theological Faculties.