Eugene Eung-Chun Park is Robert S. Dollar Professor of New Testament at San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, Calif., and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.

Edmond Yee is a professor of Asian studies at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, Calif., and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He wrote The Soaring Crane: Stories of Asian Lutherans in North America (Augsburg Fortress, 2002).

Boyung Lee is assistant professor of educational ministries at Pacific School of Religion and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif.

Young Lee-Hertig is co-founder and executive director of the Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity in Castro Valley, Calif., which fosters research into Asian-American religion, including that of Koreans.

Martinez J. Hewlett is an emeritus professor of molecular biology at the University of Arizona, a lay member of the Dominican order and resident of Taos, N.M. He is also an adjunct professor at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif.

Joan Roughgarden is a retired professor of biological sciences and geophysics at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. She now resides in Hawaii where she is an adjunct faculty member at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology. She is author of Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist (Island Press, 2006) among eight others.

Ann Taves is professor at the University of California – Santa Barbara. She wrote the article “Religion and Same-Sex Relations in the American Context” for the Religious Studies Review.

Gilbert Herdt is professor of sexuality and anthropology at San Francisco State University and director of the National Sexuality Resource Center.

Salim Yaqub is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in U.S. foreign relations and is a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where he wrote about the relationship between Americans and Arabs in the 1970s.