Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis, with Richard Thomas, co-edited Lights of the Spirit: Historical Portraits of Black Bahá’ís in North America, 1898-2000, which featured, among others, jazz great Dizzy Gillespie. She is a professor of English at Miami University in Ohio.

Sandra Yocum is chair of religious studies at the University of Dayton who specializes in the history of theology, which is Benedict’s forte.

Jonathan Y. Tan, who was born in Malaysia, is a theology professor at Xavier University, Cincinnati. He teaches courses on Islam, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism.

Andrew Sung Park is professor of theology at United Theological Seminary in Trotwood, Ohio. His books include Racial Conflict and Healing: An Asian-American Theological Perspective; The Wounded Heart of God: The Asian Concept of Han and the Christian Doctrine of Sin; and From Hurt to Healing: A Theology of the Wounded.

Arthur G. Miller is a psychology professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and editor of The Social Psychology of Good and Evil.

The Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless is a nonprofit coalition of service providers, housing activists, members and homeless people that looks for solutions to homelessness.

Formed in November 2005, We Believe Ohio includes 100 racially and theologically diverse clergy interested in social justice.

Gary Zola is an associate professor of the American Jewish experience at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. As part of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission’s celebration, Zola offers a lecture on Lincoln and the Jews that examines how he helped expand their civil rights.

The Christian Vegetarian Association promotes the practice of vegetarianism as a Christian principle. It is based in Cleveland and has a British chapter as well.