Diana Garland, dean of the Baylor University School of Social Work, has conducted research about congregational social work and family ministry.

Samantha Jo Warfield is media contact for the Corporation for National and Community Service in Washington, D.C. 

Phil Zuckerman is a professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif. He is the author of The Nonreligious: Understanding Secular People and Societies.

Gregory Koukl is founder and president of Stand to Reason, an organization devoted to Christian apologetics and based in Signal Hill, Calif. He is also an adjunct professor of Christian apologetics at Biola University and has written in defense of faith against the arguments of the new atheists.

The Islamic University of Ghana is an institution of high learning that teaches in areas of business, communication, religious studies, information systems and law.

Irshad Manji is a writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada, and author of The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith (2004). Contact via the form on the website.

Sarah Husain is a poet, activist and editor of Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality (2006). She is based in New York City.

Mona Eltahawy is a speaker, writer and commentator who focuses on issues concerning Islam. She is based in New York City.

Katherine Bullock is vice president of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists of North America and editor of Muslim Women Activists in North America: Speaking for Ourselves (2005). She is also the author of Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical & Modern Stereotypes. She lives in Mississauga, Canada.