Barbara Brown Taylor, an Episcopal priest, teaches religion at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia, and Christian spirituality at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. Her latest book is Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith (HarperSanFrancisco).
L. Gregory Jones is dean of Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina, and a regular contributor to Faith Matters in the Christian Century. He is the author of Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis (Eerdmans) and, with Stephanie Paulsell, The Scope of Our Art: The Vocation of the Theological Teacher (Eerdmans).
Lillian Daniel is the pastor of First Congregational Church of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and the author of Tell It Like It Is: Reclaiming the Practice of Testimony (Alban Institute). She writes regularly for the Christian Century.