Mark Roncace chairs the religion department at Wingate University in Wingate, N.C., and is co-editor of Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction (Society of Biblical Literature Press, 2005).

Elizabeth Ridenour is president of the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, whose goal is to introduce a state-certified Bible elective into public high schools nationwide. See a list of its advisory board and board of directors. It’s based in Greensboro, N.C.

Greg Jones is rector of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Raleigh, N.C., a regular contributor to news outlets and journals and author of Beyond Da Vinci (Seabury Books, 2004), a response the theological andhistorical inaccuracies he sees in “The Da Vinci Code.”

Bart D. Ehrman wrote Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code : A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine and teaches religious studies at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Ehrman can place Mary of Nazareth in her historical and modern-day context.

Read an account of the New Monasticism movement in the fall 2005 issue of the journal Divinity from the Duke Divinity School.

Tom Regan is a professor emeritus of philosophy at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. His book The Case for Animal Rights (University of California, 2004) is considered a classic in the area.

Gary Lynn Comstock is a professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., where he conducts research on ethical questions in the biological sciences. He has written about ethics and the humane treatment of animals.

Dr. Keith Meador is the director and professor of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, professor of health policy, and professor of the graduate department of religion. He was formerly the co-director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at […]

David Yamane is a professor of sociology at Wake Forest University and expert on American Catholicism. He is the author of The Catholic Church in State Politics: Negotiating Prophetic Demands and Political Realities. Over the last few years, Yamane has shifted his attention to gun culture and studies the rise of armed citizens.