Richard J. Martinez an associate professor of management and the chair of the department of management, marketing and business at Houston Baptist University.

Texas Citizens for Science seeks to preserve the quality of science education in Texas public schools. Steven Schafersman is the president.

The Houston Transgender Unity Committee serves as a bridge for several area groups. Contact through the website.

Thomas A. Tweed is a professor in the religious studies department at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include (as author) The American Encounter With Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian Culture & the Limits of Dissent and (as co-editor) Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History.

Akintunde E. Akinade is a visiting professor at the School of Foreign Service in Qatar at Georgetown University, Tx. He was previously an associate professor in the department of religion and philosophy at High Point University in High Point, N.C. He is an expert in fundamentalism in Africa.

Sara McLaughlin, a lecturer in rhetoric and composition at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, is the author of Meeting God in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Classic Themes in C.S. Lewis’s Book (Pleasant Word, July 2005).

Joe R. Christopher is professor emeritus of English at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, and the author of C.S. Lewis (Twayne Publishers, 1987) and co-author of C. S. Lewis: An Annotated Checklist of Writings About Him and His Works (Kent State University Press, 1974).

Marcia McQuitty, an experienced preschool educator, is associate professor of childhood ministry at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.

Robin Lovin is an ethicist at Southern Methodist University, the author of Christian Ethics: The Essential Guide (Abingdon Press, 2000) and a frequent commentator on war and peace issues.