Philip Graham Ryken is president of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill. He is the author of Art for God’s Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts, which argues that God has a plan for the arts, which Ryken sees as a tool for both evangelism and glorifying God. Contact via media relations at Wheaton.

Norman Girardot is a professor of religion at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. He is the author of Envisioning Howard Finster: The Myth and Meaning of a Stranger from Another World, about the American folk artist, whose work frequently included religious themes and images. Girardot is also an expert on similar artists, including Gregory Warmack, Myrtice West, Norbert […]

Anuttama Dasa is the international media coordinator for ISKCON and a member of its Governing Body Commission. He joined ISKCON in 1975 and lives in Rockville, Md.

Sayama Mohini Devi Dasi is a pujari (temple priest) at the Radha-Krishna Lotus ISKCON Temple in Phoenix.

Dharma Dasa is the head pujari (temple priest) at ISKCON Miami, a position he has served for 43 years. He is also the past temple president and is on the faculty at ISKCON’s Bhaktivedanta College in Belgium.

Seth W. Spellman is an attorney based in Alachua, Fla., who is also on the faculty of ISKCON’s Bhaktivedanta College in Belgium. He has served as president at two U.S. temples and has been a member of ISKCON since 1973.

Ravi Gupta is a member of the faculty at ISKCON’s Bhaktivedanta College in Belgium and is director of the religious studies program at Utah State University in Logan. He is an expert on the Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism.

Dharmasetu Dasa is a priest at ISKCON of San Diego, one of the largest Hare Krishna communities in the U.S. He joined ISKCON in 1974 and has served at the San Diego temple since 1977. He has been an administrator and a teacher at two Hare Krishna schools, one in California and one in Mississippi.

John Lomperis is the United Methodist action director for the Institute on Religion & Democracy, which supports renewal and orthodoxy within American Christian denominations. He is an expert on liberal and conservative groups within the United Methodist Church.