Johanna Schmitt is a professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California, Davis. She previously served as as president of the Society for the Study of Evolution.

Cornelius Hunter is the author of Darwin’s God: Evolution and the Problem of Evil and Science’s Blind Spot: The Unseen Religion of Scientific Naturalism. He is a fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture and an adjunct professor of biophysics at Biola University, a Christian school in La Mirada, Calif. He operates the […]

The Rev. James McDonald is president of San Francisco Theological Seminary, the only Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) seminary in the western United States. SFTS announced in 2011 that it would close its Southern California campus, saving the school $450,000 per year.

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.

The Rev. Karen Dalton is director of field education at Claremont School of Theology, a United Methodist school in Los Angeles.

Karen Lebacqz is professor of theological ethics at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif. She co-authored the book Sex in the Parish.

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center in March 2007 started a transgender job placement program.

The San Francisco-based Transgender Law Center works statewide on behalf of transgender civil rights. Contact Carisa Cunningham.