Bruce Barron is the author of "Politics for the People," a guide to politics for the average reader, and a staff member of the Pennsylvania Family Institute.

Daniel H. Bays, professor of history at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, researches modern Chinese Christianity. He has edited "Christianity in China: The Eighteenth Century to the Present" (forthcoming from Stanford University Press).

J. Bottum is associate editor of "First Things." His essays and reviews appear regularly in the "Weekly Standard" and other publications.

Edward E. Ericson, Jr., professor of English at Calvin College, is the author of two books on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the most recent of which is "Solzhenitsyn and the Modern World."

Eugene D. Genovese is the author of many books, including most recently "The Southern Front: History and Politics in the Cultural War" and "The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism."

Christopher A. Hall teaches biblical and theological studies at Eastern College.

Alan Jacobs is associate professor of English at Wheaton College.

Robert Kachur teaches British literature and composition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is working on a book investigating how Christina Rossetti and other Victorian women writers used the Book of Revelation in attempts to create an authoritative female Christian voice.

Lyman A. Kellstedt is professor of political science at Wheaton College.

Roger Lundin, professor of English at Wheaton College, is the author of "The Culture of Interpretation: Christian Faith and the Postmodern World." His biography of Emily Dickinson is forthcoming from Eerdmans.

Eric Metaxas, whose humor writing has appeared in the "Atlantic" and the "New York Times Magazine," has written many children's stories for Rabbit Ears Radio. His most recent books are "The Birthday ABC," a children's book; and "Don't You Believe It!," a parody.

Mark Noll is McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College.

Virginia Stem Owens is director of the Milton Center at Kansas Newman College. Her book "Assault on Eden: A Memoir of Communal Life in the Early 70's," first published in 1977, has been reissued with a new preface.

John Powell is assistant professor of history at the Pennsylvania State University, Erie. His most recent publications include a special edition of Nineteenth-Century Prose on "Victorian Biography" (1995), and "Art, Truth and High Politics: A Bibliographic Study of the Official Lives of Queen Victoria's Ministers in Cabinet, 1843-1969."

Joy Sawyer is a therapist in private practice in Denver, Colorado. Her poems have appeared in Inklings, "New York Quarterly," "Theology Today," and other publications

Corwin E. Smidt is professor of political science at Calvin College.

Tim Stafford, senior writer for "Christianity Today," is the author of many books, including most recently "Knowing the Face of God."

Harry S. Stout is Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Christianity at Yale University and general editor of "The Works of Jonathan Edwards." He is the author of "Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism."

Larry Woiwode received the Award of Merit for the Short Story from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1995. His most recent books are "Silent Passengers," a collection of stories, and "Acts."

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