John Rosengren is a Minnesota writer and author of several books about sports and religion. His January 2004 essay in U.S. Catholic magazine, “Let Us Play,” examined the relationship of sports to sacramental faith. Rosengren also had an article in the January 2005 issue on the downside of Catholic schools’ catering to sports.

Gary M. Simpson is a professor of systematic theology at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minn., and director of the seminary’s God-in-Global-Civil-Society Project. He wrote the 2007 book War, Peace and God: Rethinking the Just-War Tradition.

Carol Tauer is professor of philosophy emerita at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minn., and is currently visiting professor at the Center for Bioethics of the University of Minnesota. She served on the National Institutes of Health’s Human Embryo Research Panel, which made ethical recommendations for federal funding of research on infertility, pre-implantation […]

The Episcopal Ecological Network is a ministry of the Episcopal Church that advocates on behalf of the church for care of the environment.

Nader Saiedi is professor of sociology and anthropology at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. Born in Iran, he is the author of numerous Bahá’í books, including Gate of the Heart: Understanding the Writings of the Báb.

Eleazar S. Fernandez, who is ordained in the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, is professor of constructive theology at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, New Brighton, Minn. He co-edited Realizing the America of Our Hearts: Theological Voices of Asian Americans.

Greg Boyd is senior pastor of Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minn., and author of The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power is Destroying the Church, in which he says American Christians should seek to build the kingdom of God instead of building political power.

Jan G. Linn is author of Big Christianity: What’s Right with the Religious Left (Westminster John Knox, 2006) and a co-pastor of Spirit of Joy Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Minneapolis. A former college and seminary professor, Linn calls himself a “recovering fundamentalist” who wants to reclaim the idea of Christianity as generous, or liberal, and tolerant.

The National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth works to make sure that children without a home have access to education.