Rabbi Camille Shira Angel is the rabbi of Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, a LGBT-specific synagogue in San Francisco. It has extensive teen programming, including organizing teen activism for LGBT rights.

The Rev. Theresa Novak is the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ogden, Utah, which has a drop-in center for LGBT youth.

Yadi Martinez is youth minister at Cathedral of Hope in Dallas. The church was formerly a Metropolitan Community Church, is now affiliated with the United Church of Christ and has a large number of LGBT members.

David Grumett is Chancellor’s Fellow of Christian ethics and practical theology at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on French Catholic theology. He is the author of De Lubac: A Guide for the Perplexed.

David Fergusson is a professor of divinity at the University of Edinburgh. His is director of the Scottish Journal of Theology. His research focuses on the relationship between church and society, Christian doctrine, and Christian history, with an emphasis on the history of Catholic and Reformed theology.

Dan Cohn-Sherbok is an honorary professor of history at the University of Aberystwyth and and  visiting professor at St Mary’s University College, London. He is the author and editor of over 70 books on Judaism, including On Earth as it is in Heaven: Jews, Christians, and Liberation Theology, Issues in Contemporary Judaism, and An Atlas of Jewish History.

John Nawas is an associate professor of Near Eastern studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Leuven, Belgium. He is an expert on the history and fundamentals of Islam. He has supplied many entries to the Encyclopaedia of Islam.

Christopher Kaczor is a philosophy professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and author of The Seven Big Myths About the Catholic Church: Distinguishing Fact From Fiction About Catholicism, in which he discusses the papacy. He can discuss Benedict’s legacy.

Phillip Thompson is executive director of Emory University’s Aquinas Center of Theology. The Aquinas Center is one of four independent Catholic intellectual centers at a non-Catholic U.S. university.