Dale Soden is a history professor at Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash. He contributed a chapter on mainline Protestants, Catholics and Jews in the Pacific Northwest to Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone.

Bill McKinney was president of the Pacific School of Religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif. for fourteen years before he retired in 2010. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and a religion sociologist who is an expert on American Protestantism.

He is professor emeritus of religious studies at Santa Clara University in California and author of Broken Bread and Broken Bodies: The Lord’s Supper and World Hunger.

Hindmarsh is a professor of spiritual theology at Regent College, Vancouver, BC, Canada. He has published and spoken widely to international audiences on the history of early British evangelicalism. His articles have appeared in respected academic journals such as Church History and the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, and has authored of two major books on evangelical traditions.

An Aug. 3, 2005, poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that by a nearly 2-1 ratio (57 percent to 30 percent) Americans said it was more important to conduct stem cell research to find new cures than to not destroy the […]

Reimer is a professor of sociology at Crandall University in New Brunswick, Canada. Evangelical movements and subcultures in North America, especially Canada, are his expertise area.  

Van Die is a professor of history and theology in the department of History at Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada. Her specialization is in Methodist tradition and history in Canada, 19th century religion, gender and class.

Snyder is a professor of Wesley Studies at Tyndale University College and Seminary, Toronto, ON, Canada. His expertise is in Wesleyan theology, history and theology of mission, church renewal, and historical theology.

Airhart is an Associate Professor of History of Christianity at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Her interests include North American Christianity, Methodism, religion and public life, and the history of spirituality.