Irene Martin is a fisher, writer and Episcopal priest. She and her husband Kent have fished for salmon in the Pacific Northwest for more than two decades. For her work in preserving local and regional history, she was awarded the Washington Governor's Heritage Award in 2000.

Irvin J. Borowsky is the founder/chairman of the American Interfaith Institute. For over two decades, the Institute has been a leader in building relationships among Americans of all faiths and defusing bigotry and anti-Semitism within a framework of research, international symposia, and educational initiatives. The editor and publisher of over eighteen books and thirty-one special reports, Mr. Borowsky is also the founder and chairman of the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, whose exhibitions and programs are seen by over sixty thousand visitors annually.

Jacob K. Olupona, volume editor, is Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California at Davis. He is the author of African Traditional Religions in Contemporary Society.

James Alison, writes, lectures and teaches in the UK, the US and Latin America and is formerly a professor of Dogmatic Theology at the Universidad Catolica Bolivia, He is an Oxford-educated theologian with an influential and growing readership on both sides of the Atlantic.