Jennifer Holberg

Chair of the advisory board, professor of English, Calvin College; Grand Rapids, Mich.

Jill Baumgaertner

Dean of Humanities and Theological Studies, Wheaton College; poet; Wheaton, Ill.

Doris Betts

Novelist and short story writer; professor emerita, University of North Carolina; Pittsboro, N.C.

Walter Brueggemann

Writer, theologian; professor emeritus, Columbia Theological Seminary; Decatur, Ga.

Scott Cairns

Poet; professor of English, University of Missouri; Columbia, Mo.

Michael Card

Musician, songwriter, and essayist; Warsaw, Ind.

Elizabeth Dewberry

Novelist and playwright; Lamont, Fla.

William Evertsberg

Senior minister, First Presbyterian Church, Greenwich, Conn.

Doug Frank

Director, Oregon Extension; professor of history; Ashland, Ore.

Tim Gautreaux

Novelist and short story writer; professor emeritus, Southeast Louisiana University; Hammond, La.

Philip H. Gulley

Novelist, essayist, Quaker minister; Danville, Ind.

Ron Hansen

Novelist and short story writer; professor of English, Santa Clara University; Cupertino, Calif.

Roy Herron

Tennessee State Senator and writer; Dresden, Tenn.

Judith Hooker

Community volunteer, retired teacher ; Grand Rapids, Mich.

Robert Hooker

Community volunteer and activist, retired businessman; Grand Rapids, Mich.

Silas House

Novelist; professor of English, Lincoln Memorial University; Lily, Ky.

Robert Hudson

Senior editor, Zondervan Publishing Company; Grand Rapids, Mich.

Richard Hughes

Professor of religion and Senior Boyer Fellow at Messiah College; Grantham, Pa.

Thomas Long

Professor of preaching, Candler School of Theology at Emory University; Atlanta, Ga.

Thomas Lynch

Undertaker, writer and poet; Milford, Mich.

David Malone

Curator, the Buechner Papers, Wheaton College; Wheaton, Ill.

Ami McConnell

Senior editor, Thomas Nelson Publishing; Nashville, Tenn.

Donald McKim

Senior editor, Westminster John Knox Press; Germantown, Tenn.

Brian McLaren

Author, preacher, former pastor, board chair for Sojourners

Jeff Munroe

Minister, director of Young Life’s Western Great Lakes region; Grand Rapids, Mich.

Carrie Newcomer

Songwriter and folksinger; Bloomington, Ind.

Kathleen Norris

Essayist, memoirist and poet; Honolulu, Hawaii

Katherine Paterson

Children’s literature author; Barre, Vt.

Doug Peters

Senior minister, Walnut Hills United Methodist Church; Des Moines, Iowa

Eugene Peterson

Author, minister; professor emeritus, Regent College; Lakeside, Mont.

Chip Pollard

President, John Brown University; Siloam Springs, Ark.

Jon Pott

Vice-president and editor-in-chief, Eerdmans Publishing Company; Grand Rapids, Mich.

Caleb Seeling

Senior editor, NavPress; Colorado Springs, Colo.

Barbara Brown Taylor

Writer, preacher, professor of religion, Piedmont College; Clarkesville, Ga.

Abram Van Engen

Doctoral student, Northwestern University; Chicago, Ill.

William Willimon

Bishop, United Methodist Church; writer, preacher, theologian; Birmingham, Ala.

Paul Willis

Poet; professor of English, Westmont College; Santa Barbara, Calif.

John Wilson

Editor, Books & Culture ; Wheaton, Ill.

Philip Yancey

Author; editor-at-large, Christianity Today; Carol Stream, Ill.

Jane Zwart

Assistant professor of English, Calvin College; poet; Grand Rapids, Mich.