Father Haney is the executive editor for The Catholic Witness, the diocesan newspaper for Harrisburg, PA.

Richard C. Sparks, C.S.P., is a moral theologian, popular speaker, and author of an award-winning book on bioethics and the handicapped newborn, To Treat or Not To Treat. He is an ethical consultant to several hospitals, and has taught Christians ethics at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, St. Paul Seminary, and the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Richard Gribble, CSC, is a priest in the Congregation of Holy Cross. A 1975 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Fr. Gribble has served in parish ministry and as a college professor. Presently, he holds a position as Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College.

Richard D. Hecht received his Ph.D. in the History of Religions from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1976. He has special interest in the general history of religions, Judaism and Religion, and Culture. He was trained as a historian of religions under the influence of Mircea Eliade through one of his teachers at UCLA Kees W. Bolle. He has developed an interest for the deep contextualization of religion in its lived environments and most centrally the intersections of religion, politics, and culture. His work is comparative and multidisciplinary,...

Richard J. Cassidy is a New Testament scholar whose books have explored aspects of the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and Paul’s letters that have traditionally not been treated by other New Testament scholars. That these writings are now becoming viewed as “counter-imperial” is due is no small degree to the pioneering work of Professor Cassidy.

Father Neuhaus was a Catholic theologian and founder of the influential journal First Things.

Rita Winters is an award-winning writer and former executive creative director at J. Walter Thompson, one of the world’s leading advertising agencies. She lives in Chicago.