John Zmirak is an editor, a journalist, a college teacher, and a political commentator. He is the author of The Bad Catholic's Guide to the Seven Deadly Sins and the coauthor of The Bad Catholic’s Guide to Good Living; The Bad Catholic's Guide to Wine, Whiskey, and Song; and The Grand Inquisitor. He has contributed to Investor's Business Daily and the National Catholic Register. He lives in New York City.

Jon Mundy, cofounder with Diane Berke of the popular On Course magazine, was introduced to A Course in Miracles by its principals—Drs. Helen Schucman, Bill Thetford, and Ken Wapnick—a year before its publication. An ordained Methodist clergyman, he is cofounder of the Interfaith Fellowship, New York, and a professor of religion at Mercy College. Few writers are as qualified as Jon to guide readers through the beautiful terrain of A Course in Miracles.

José Antonio Pagola was born in Spain in 1937. He completed his theological studies in 1962 at the Papal Gregorian University in Rome and his studies in Sacred Scripture at the Papal Biblical Institute in Rome in 1963. He also studied Biblical sciences at the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem. Pagola is a professor at St. Sebastian Seminary and at the Faculty of Theology of Northern Spain. He has dedicated his life to Biblical studies and Christology and has done research on the historical Jesus for more than 30 year.

José Ignacio López Vigil is a journalist with extensive experience in the areas of religion, church, and Latin American affairs.

Joseph A. Tetlow is the director of the Montserrat Jesuit Retreat House, the former head of the Jesuit general’s Secretariat for Ignatian Spirituality, the former president of the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, and the associate editor of America magazine. He is the author of Making Choices in Christ and Mana for the Desert of Business. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

Joseph Chu-Cong, O.C.S.O., a lifelong Christian in exile from his native Vietnam, was prior of St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts.

Joseph Curran is an associate professor, chair of the religious studies department, and executive director of the Ethics Institute of Northeastern Pennsylvania at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania. Dr. Curran received his Ph.D. in theological ethics from Boston College. His research interests include Catholic social teaching and Catholicism in American political life. Curran resides in Dallas with his wife and two daughters.

Joseph Pandiappallil is an Indian priest in the Missionary Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament. Walter Cardinal Kasper is a German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, having served as its president from 2001 to 2010.