Author and researcher C. Kirk Hadaway is director of research for the Episcopal Church Center. He has written widely on the subject of church growth and also worked with the United Church of Christ and Southern Baptist denominations.

Bishop of the Anglican Church. Leader of Churches for the Sake of Others (C4SO), a church planting movement designed to develop leaders committed to planting. Former president of Alpha USA and Vineyard USA. Hunter has been involved in church planting and leadership development for many years.

The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA is an umbrella organization of Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, historic African American and Living Peace denominations. The NCCC frequently files amicus briefs in religious and civil liberties cases. Philip E. Jenks is press contact.

A 2005 Gallup poll found that while Americans were supportive of equal job rights for homosexuals, they didn’t think people who are gay should be clergy members.

John C. Danforth, an Episcopal priest and a former U.S. senator, has served as special envoy to Sudan under President Bush and also as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2004-2005.

Kanuga is an Episcopal conference center in the mountains of western North Carolina.

Saint Christopher is an Episcopal conference center on Seabrook Island, S.C.

Steve Matthews was youth minister at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Va for more than 15 years. St. Paul’s has been one of the partner congregations in the Youth Ministry & Spirituality Project at San Francisco Theological Seminary.