Frances Miller is a professor of law emerita at Boston University School of Law. Her interests include health law, food and drug law, biotechnology and genetics, comparative health systems, competition vs. regulation in health care and trusts and estates.

Mary Ann Chirba is a professor of legal reasoning, research & writing at the Boston College Law School in Newton, Mass.

Written by Kerry Walters. Walters gives an overview of the history and philosophy of Atheism.

Written by Robin Le Poidevin. Le Poidevin explains agnosticism as an ideology and writes about its history and development.

The Rev. Frederick W. Schmidt is director of spiritual formation and Anglican studies and an associate professor of Christian spirituality at Southern Methodist University, Dallas. He is the author of A Still Small Voice: Women, Ordination and the Church (Syracuse University Press, 1996).

Dec. 18, 2006, The New Yorker article by Dr. Jerome Groopman about the Abigail Alliance case.

Written by S.T. Joshi. Joshi writes about the history and development of modern Atheism.

William C. Placher is a professor of philosophy and religion and LaFollette Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Ind. His books include, as editor, Callings: Twenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation (Eerdmans Publishing, 2005).

James R. Wood is a professor emeritus of sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington, and was part of a team of scholars working on a project called “Organizing Religious Work for the 21st Century.”