Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet is an associate professor of psychology at Hope College in Holland, Mich. Forgiveness and health constitute one of her primary areas of interest, and she is researching how the emotion of forgiveness relates to health.

David Reynolds is a labor program specialist with the Wayne State University Labor Studies Center in Detroit. He has conducted several studies on living-wage laws and campaigns.

Anthony B. Bradley is a research fellow with the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, based in Grand Rapids, Mich. Bradley has written that raising the minimum wage hurts teens and low-skilled minorities. He has linked the Black Lives Matter movement to Christianity in a commentary.

Julie Nemecek, as the Rev. John Nemecek, was a Baptist minister and longtime professor at Spring Arbor University in Spring Arbor, Mich. The school fired her in December 2006 after she had come out as transgender. She filed a discrimination claim that was later settled, and is now founder and head of a consulting company […]

S. Brian Stratton is the chairman of the religious studies program and a professor of religious studies and philosophy at Alma College in Alma, Mich. He has been affiliated with the Metanexus Institute.

Richard E. Lenski is the Hannah Distinguished Professor in the department of microbiology and molecular genetics at Michigan State University and the president of the Society for the Study of Evolution.

Foods Resource Bank is made up of 15 Christian denominations and agencies that work at the grass roots with farmers and communities to develop local food security. Modeled after a Canadian program, it has both overseas and U.S. projects. Contact Marv Baldwin, president and CEO of the group, which has offices in Illinois and Michigan.

Leslie Ann Thompson is chief executive officer of Affirmations, a community center in Detroit for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people that is Michigan’s largest.

Ann Annis is a researcher at the Center for Social Research at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich.