Michael Keas is an adjunct faculty member at Biola University, a Christian school in La Mirada, Calif. He is a senior fellow at the Center for Science & Culture at the Discovery Institute and is the primary author of the auxiliary materials for its textbook, Explore Evolution.

Sharon Daloz Parks is a senior fellow at the Whidbey Institute at Chinook in Clinton, Wash. In 2010, she spoke before the faculty at Washington Theological Consortium on the subject of challenges to contemporary theological education.

Sharon Suh is a professor and chair of the department of theology and religious studies at Seattle University. She specializes in the study of Buddhism and was an advisor to the Pew Research Center on its study of Buddhism.

David Domke is an associate professor of communication at the University of Washington in Seattle. He writes and teaches widely on religious radicals, fundamentalism and politics. With co-author Kevin Coe he is writing a book, The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Caprice Hollins is the former director of equity and race relations for the Seattle school district. The office has established a committee to examine the needs of Muslim students in public schools. She now works at a consulting firm providing culturally relevant professional development and consulting services to organizations seeking to improve their skills in effectively engaging all […]

Dr. Julia M. Bledsoe is a clinical professor of pediatrics in the department of pediatrics at the University of Washington. She is also a primary care, general pediatrician who specializes in adoption medicine.

Nelson Edman “Ned” Graham is the youngest of Billy and Ruth Graham’s children. Formerly in pastoral ministry, he is president of East Gates International, which prints and distributes Bibles to Christians throughout the People’s Republic of China. He lives in Sumner, Wash.

Bethany United Church of Christ in Seattle. Bethany was founded in 2000 at the site of a previously dying Anglo congregation in the diverse Beacon Hill neighborhood, as an intentionally multicultural, multiracial and multigenerational church.

Karen Ward is abbess of the Church of the Apostles, a multicultural Lutheran-Episcopal congregation in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. Apostles describes itself as a multicultural “future church with an ancient faith.”