Dr. Grenz is a Professor of Baptist Heritage, Theology and Ethics at Carey Theological College, Professor of Theology and Ethics at Regent College in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lombard, Illinois. He has written sixteen books and articles which have appeared in Christianity Today, Christian Century, Christian Scholars Review, the Journal of Ecumenical Studies and the Christian Week. Dr. Grenz served on the National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, the national board of the American Academy of Religion, the South Dakota Committee on the Humanities, the editorial board of Perspectives in Religious Studies, the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, the Evangelical Theology Group of the AAR, and the Social Action Commission of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. He currently participates in both the Ethics Commission and the Theological Education Committee of the Baptist World Alliance and the Canadian Evangelical Theological Association and is a consulting editor of Christianity Today.

Rev. Gary Gunderson is the Director of the Interfaith Health Program of The Carter Center, Emory University. An ordained American Baptist Minister educated at Wake Forest University and Emory, Gary writes, speaks, and leads workshops internationally around issues of health and faith. He came to The Carter Center from a background in community development and communications. His recent book, Deeply Woven Roots, published by Fortress Press is used by seminaries and schools of public health across the country. He is a Fellow of the Center for Theology, Ethics and Human Sciences at The Chicago Theological Seminary, a member of the Advisory Board of the Protestant Health Alliance, and several Atlanta humanitarian organizations. He chairs the building committee of his own congregation, Oakhurst Baptist Church in Decatur, Georgia.

Scott Harrison is the Program Director of AIDS National Interfaith Network. During the 1980s he served as associate minister of two Baptist churches and later worked as manager of SERVE Family Shelter in Manassas, VA and director of the Respite Care Center at St. Joseph's Villa in Richmond, VA. In Richmond, he was a volunteer at Richmond AIDS Ministry, member of the NAMES Project Committee when the Heartstrings tour came to the area and founding member of the Steering Committee and Board of Directors of the Central Virginia Chapter of the NAMES Project. He volunteered with the NAMES Project Foundation during the last several national quilt displays and, since his move to Washington, has volunteered with Food & Friends. Following two years at the Human Rights Campaign, he moved to ANIN where he provides technical assistance and support to ANIN member organizations and is the program manager of the Council of National Religious AIDS Networks. He earned an undergraduate degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and a Master of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

Dr. Carter Heyward is the Howard Chandler Robbins Professor of Theology at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. She received her B.A. from Randolph-Macon College, an M.A. from Columbia, and an M.Div. and Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York. She is an Assistant at St. Martin's Church in Charlotte, NC, a Chaplain at Bellevue Hospital in New York, and an Assistant at St. Mary's Church in Manhattanville, N.Y. Recent publications include Staying Power:Reflections on Gender, Justice, and Compassion (Pilgrim); Touching our Strength:The Erotic as Power and Love of God (HarperCollins); Speaking of Christ: A Lesbian Feminist Voice; and When Boundaries Betray Us (Pilgrim): Beyond Illusions of What is Ethical in Therapy and Life (Harper). Dr. Heyward's areas of expertise include: systematic theology, liberation and feminist theologies; sex, race, and class as theological issues; christology; building creative, effective resistance to the Christian "Right." She states that "the only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world."