Lynn Davidman is a professor of modern Jewish studies at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. She is an expert on those who leave Hasidic and Orthodox Judaism, both in the U.S. and in Israel.

Richard Kyle is a professor of history and religion at Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kan. He is the author of Evangelicalism: An Americanized Christianity (2006), in which he both praises and criticizes evangelicals for their embrace of secular culture and shows how their ideas about sin, women and private enterprise support the Republican Party platform.

Read “The Evangelical Crackup,” an Oct. 28, 2007, story in The New York Times Magazine about the travails of the Christian right during the  election season.

Karre Shaefer is director of the Kansas branch of Not for Sale: Re-Abolish Slavery and focuses on human rights and ethnic conflict.

Wes Bergen teaches religion at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kan., is the religion chairman for the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association and is also a pastor. He is currently working on a new book about ritual in Leviticus.

Read the American Civil Liberties Union’s lawsuit filed on behalf of parents in Dover, Pa.

Nov. 8, 2005, The Washington Post story about the Kansas School Board’s vote that doubts about evolution theory must be taught in the classroom.

The Intelligent Design Network is a nonprofit organization that seeks to promote objectivity in origins education in public schools.

John Calvert is managing director of Intelligent Design Network. He is a lawyer whose legal practice has focused on constitutional requirements for teaching origins science in public schools. He was actively involved in the science education debate in his home state of Kansas, as well as in Ohio, Georgia, California, Missouri, Minnesota, North Carolina, West Virginia, […]