Dr. Ruth M. Farrell is a Cleveland physician with a background in bioethics and philosophy. She is particularly interested in assisted reproductive technologies and treatments for infertility patients. Farrell serves on numerous hospital quality assurance and ethics committees. She founded the obstetrics and gynecology residents’ ethics curriculum at the University Hospital of Cleveland.

Dawn H. Seery is a system ethicist for Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus and serves on the board of trustees for the Bioethics Network of Ohio. Dawn has been involved in hospital ethics committees since the 1980s. Her background includes critical care and palliative care education and management. Her graduate degree is in bioethics and […]

The American Ghost Society is a national network of ghost hunters, authors, ghost enthusiasts and psychical researchers who conduct investigations into the paranormal. They maintain a list of members and ghost hunters by state.

Dr. Margaret Poloma is Professor Emeritus in Sociology at the University of Akron in Ohio. She wrote about miracles as supernatural/ paranormal phenomenon in Main Street Mystics: The Toronto Blessing and Reviving Pentecostalism (Alta Mira Press, 2003). She describes herself as a Pentecostal Christian who has experienced paranormal phenomena within the framework of her religion.

Read a New York Times review of Roadside Religion: Cross Country. Contact Beal.

Rochelle Millen is a religion professor at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and author of Women, Birth, and Death in Jewish Law and Practice (University Press of New England, 2004), which examines the role of women in Jewish funerals.

Read a Nov. 8, 2011, article from Bloomberg Businessweek about eco-friendly burials and cemeteries.

Joanne C. Brant is a law professor at Ohio Northern University in Ada who specializes in employment discrimination.

David Krueger holds the chair in managerial and corporate ethics at the division of business administration at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. He is the author of Productive Justice and the Modern Business Corporation in a Global Economy (Abingdon Press, 1997) and Keeping Faith at Work: The Christian in the Workplace (Abingdon Press, 1994).