John Heeren is professor emeritus of sociology at California State University in San Bernardino. Hereen has written several articles about the presence of religion in the comics.

Robert Wexler is president of the American Jewish University (formerly the University of Judaism and the Brandeis-Bardin Institute) in Los Angeles. Under his presidency, AJU has grown to 10,000 students.

Gerard Heather is a political science professor at San Francisco State University and an expert on religion and politics.

Steven J. Zipperstein is a professor in Jewish culture and history at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif. He is co-editor of a series of books titled Jewish Lives from Yale University Press. His research areas include modern Jewish history, and he teaches a course on Jews in the modern world.

Michael Horan is a theologian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles who can relate Catholic beliefs to Catholic practice, particularly in the political realm. Horan believes hard-line tactics by bishops to deny communion to abortion rights politicians can backfire.

Brett McCracken is a senior editor for The Gospel Coalition and expert on Christian culture and entertainment. He previously reviewed movies for Christianity Today.

Telford Work is assistant professor of theology at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, Calif. He has written frequently on evangelicals, and he maintains a personal Website.

Chris Soper is a professor of political science at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., and the author of Evangelical Christianity in the United States and Great Britain: Religious Beliefs, Political Choices.

J.P. Moreland is a philosophy and theology professor at the evangelical Talbot School of Theology of Biola University in La Mirada, Calif. He has also author of thirty-five books, including Does God Exist? (Prometheus) and over 75 articles.