Rachel Held Evans is a popular blogger and the author of A Year of Biblical Womanhood, in which she explored the meaning of “biblical womanhood” as it is understood by many complementarian and egalitarian Christians. She lives in Dayton, Tenn. Contact via her publicist.

Mary Kassian is a professor of women’s studies at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. She has written to support and explain the complementarian view of women in the church.

Jen Pollock Michel contributed an essay to Christianity Today about her conversion from an egalitarian to a complementarian Christian. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

Rachel Kohl Finegold is one of the first ordained women to graduate from Yeshiva Maharat, an Orthodox Jewish rabbinate school for women. She is director of education and spiritual enrichment at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Quebec, Canada.

Ghazala Anwar is an associate professor of Quranic studies at Starr King School for the Ministry, a Unitarian Universalist school, at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif. She is also on the steering committee of GTU’s Women’s Studies in Religion program. Among her areas of interest are women in Islam and gender equality.

Diane Dougherty is an ordained Roman Catholic Womanpriest and a pastor at the First Metropolitan Community Church in Atlanta, where she is head of its social justice ministries.

Jules Hart is the director of the 2011 documentary Pink Smoke Over the Vatican, about Roman Catholic Womenpriests and the fight for women’s ordination in the Catholic Church. She is based in Carmel, Calif.

Kathleen Kunster is an ordained Womanpriest who lives in the Sonoma County area of California.

The Rev. Patricia Roane is president of Genesis Ministers’ Conference, a monthly meeting of women in church leadership drawn from members of the Pennsylvania Baptist Clergywomen of central Pennsylvania.