Keith B. Miller, research assistant professor of geology at Kansas State University, is editor of Perspectives on an Evolving Creation (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2003), a collection of essays, and an officer of the Affiliation of Christian Geologists.

Ho-Youn Kwon is associate professor of sociology at North Park University in Chicago, executive director for the Center for Korean Studies and co-editor of Korean Americans and Their Religions: Pilgrims and Missionaries From a Different Shore (Pennsylvania University Press, 2001).

Nam Soon Song is Ewart Professor of Christian Education and Youth Ministry and director of the Centre for Asian-Canadian Theology and Ministry at Knox College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Ann Taves is professor at the University of California – Santa Barbara. She wrote the article “Religion and Same-Sex Relations in the American Context” for the Religious Studies Review.

Gilbert Herdt is professor of sexuality and anthropology at San Francisco State University and director of the National Sexuality Resource Center.

The Rev. Joretta L. Marshall is executive vice president and dean of Texas Christian University’s Brite Divinity School, where she is also professor of pastoral theology and pastoral care and counseling. She wrote “Covenants and Partnerships: Pastoral Counseling with Women in Lesbian Relationships” for the Journal of Pastoral Theology.

Fenton Johnson is a widely published commentator and author, including Keeping Faith: A Skeptic’s Journey (Houghton Mifflin, 2003). He is gay and practices Christianity and Buddhism. He is on the faculty of the creative writing program at the University of Arizona.

Casey Self is director of cross-college advising services for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered issues at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz.

Leo Godzich is head of the National Association of Marriage Enhancement in Phoenix. His group opposes same-sex marriage.