Michael Durall is principal of the CommonWealth Consulting Group in Boulder, Colo. He is the author of Creating Congregations of Generous People.

Howard Bahr is a sociology professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and was a co-author of “Giving Up Something Good for Something Better,” a study of the sacrifices made by religious young people.

Mark Allan Powell is a professor of New Testament at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio, and the author of Giving to God: The Bible’s Good News About Living a Generous Life.

Ebrahim Moosa is a professor of Islamic studies at Duke University. He has written about Muslim law and ethics.

Edith Turner is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Boyce Watkins is a scholar, author and leader in the African-American community. He writes frequently about money issues and the African-American community.

Read a June 24, 2010, story published in the Los Angeles Times about the change of leadership in Afghanistan from Gen. Stanly McChrystal to Gen. David Patraeus.

Pamela Wesley Gomez is director of development and external church affairs at the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.

Read the June 22, 2010, profile published by Rolling Stone about Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former commander of all U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. After the article was published, McChrystal was removed from his post for the unflattering comments he made about the Obama administration.