Loren Swartzendruber is president of Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va.

Steven Tracy is a professor of theology and ethics at Phoenix Seminary in Phoenix, Ariz. Gender and sexuality issues are among his specialties. He and his wife are the founders of Mending the Soul Ministries, which focuses on Christian married couples.

Catherine M. Roach is an associate professor women’s studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. She is an expert on the spiritual and religious idea of “Mother Nature.”

Douglas Mohrmann is an associate professor of religion at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Mich. He contributed a chapter titled “Is Anyone Listening? The Waning Voice of the Bible in Sexual Ethics” to the book Religion and Sexuality: Passionate Debates.

Keith Graber Miller is a professor of Bible and religion at Goshen College in Goshen, Ind. He spoke at a leadership conference for Mennonite pastors titled “Embodying Sexual Wholeness in a Broken World” held at Eastern Mennonite Seminary.

Sid Brown is a professor in the Asian Studies Program at Sewanee, The University of the South, in Sewanee, Tenn. She is an expert on Buddhism and has taught on Buddhism and the environment.

Paul G. Schervish is a director of the Boston College Center on Wealth and Philanthropy and a sociology professor at the college in Chestnut Hill, Mass. He directed the studies “The Moral Biography of Wealth: Philosophical Reflections on the Foundation of Philanthropy,” “The Contradictions of Christmas: Troubles and Traditions in Culture, Home, and Heart,” and “The […]

Patricia Beattie Jung is chair and professor of theology at St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City. She is an expert on Catholic feminism and sexuality.

Abdullah Saeed is a professor of Arab and Islamic studies and director of Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He has written widely on the role of money in Islam.