The Rev. Bill Calhoun is a parish associate at Wellshire Presbyterian Church in Denver.

The Rev. Eileen Lindner is deputy general secretary for research and planning of the National Council of Churches and senior pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Tenafly in Tenafly, N.J. Previously, she served as the director of the NCC’s Child Advocacy Office. She has written numerous books and articles on a variety of child advocacy subjects.

The Rev. Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner is a professor of pastoral care at Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology in Dallas. Her teaching specialties include issues in practical theology, pastoral care of women, crisis ministry, pastoral self-care, family systems theory and adoption. She wrote The Spirit of Adoption: At Home in God’s Family. She is an […]

James W. Lewis was executive director of the Louisville Institute, a program for the study of American religion at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary until 2011 when he retired. With funding from the Lilly Endowment, the Louisville Institute has sponsored research on multiethnic congregations. Lewis can connect reporters with scholars and pastors who’ve studied multiethnic congregations.

Randy Lee is moderator of the Presbyterian Multicultural Church Network and associate general presbyter for new church development and redevelopment in Grace Presbytery in Texas.

Stephen Um is the senior minister of Citylife Presbyterian Church in Boston. He also is an adjunct faculty member at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and at Emerson College. Citylife, a multicultural congregation affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America, was started in 2002 as part of the network of the Redeemer Church Planting Center in New York and now has more […]

The Rev. Anita Hendrix is pastor of Hunting Ridge Presbyterian Church, a multiethnic congregation in Baltimore affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Her congregation is about 60 percent Anglo, with others of African-American, Caribbean, Asian and African heritage.

Oakhurst Presbyterian Church in Decatur, Ga., a congregation that’s committed to diversity and whose membership is about half white and half black. Contact pastors Nibs (Gibson) Stroupe and Caroline Leach. Together they wrote O Lord, Hold Our Hands: How a Church Thrives in a Multicultural World, and Stroupe is a co-author of Where Once We Feared Enemies: Inclusive Membership, […]

Kenneth L. Gentry Jr. is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America. He is the author of several books on Revelation and lives in South Carolina.