Annmarie Early is an associate professor of counseling at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va. In 2008, she spoke at a leadership conference for Mennonite pastors on the subject of sexual wholeness.

Pam Erickson is vice president of procurement and corporate relations of Operation Blessing International, listed by The Chronicle of Philanthropy as one of the 400 largest nonprofits. It is based in Virginia Beach, Va.

The Rev. Larry Snyder is president of Catholic Charities USA, a nonprofit that benefits the poor. In September 2009, he told The New York Times that increasing numbers of the charity’s volunteers are becoming clients.

Os Guinness is an author and social critic who lives in McLean, Va. His books include Dining With the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts With Modernity. He is a senior fellow at the EastWest Institute in New York City.

Elmer Towns is co-founder of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., and dean of its School of Religion. Towns is a longtime church-growth expert; he provided one of the earliest tallies of super-large churches, determining in 1969 that there were 16 congregations with 2,000-plus weekly worshippers.

Layli Miller-Muro is a lawyer and the founder of the Tahirih Justice Center, a Bahá’í-inspired women’s advocacy organization in Falls Church, Va.

David E. Bernstein is a professor at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Va., and posts at the Volokh Conspiracy blog, where he wrote about Islamofascism.

Read the official Defense Department report on the Abu Ghraib abuses, published in August 2004, particularly Appendix G on the social psychology of abusive behavior and the predictability of abuse in the right social circumstance.

The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy is the state’s oldest faith-based advocacy group and specializes in data analysis, policy research, public education and direct advocacy on a range of issues that address poverty and low-income people. The center is based in Richmond. Contact executive director Kim Bobo through communications director Neill Caldwell.