Karen A. Longman is program director and a professor of higher education in the department of higher education at Azusa Pacific University, and a co-editor

Clayton Croy, a United Methodist layperson, teaches Greek and New Testament at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. He has degrees from Asbury College, Asbury Theological Seminary, the University

Scarlet Tsao holds a Master of Laws from Yale Law School and is an attorney admitted to practice in Hong Kong and England. She is currently a

Lorraine Cleaves Anderson has been Senior Pastor of International Community Church (American Baptist) in Boston since 1998. Lorraine taught deaf-blind students for seven years before going to seminary,

David Instone-Brewer has been a Baptist pastor in Wales, U.K., and is currently the Senior Research Fellow in Rabbinics and the New Testament at Tyndale House, Cambridge, U.K.

Virginia Gray is pursuing both a Master of Divinity degree and the Doctor of Ministry degree in effective ministries to women at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton, Massachusetts.

Priscilla Lasmarias Kelso is originally from the Philippines and is a graduate of the Literature and Writing program at Stanford University. Her article, “The Heartbeat of a

Mark Reasoner (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is associate professor of biblical and theological studies at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minn. He is the author of Romans

Charles O. Knowles is an egalitarian Southern Baptist. He retired from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo., after thirty-four years of teaching and research.