John Bryson Chane is Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington (D.C.) and a member of the Episcopal Church Publishing Company board.
Gabrielle Chavez is the pastor of Christ the Healer United Church of Christ in Portland, Ore.
Ian Douglas is professor of World Mission and Global Christianity at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., and a member of the Episcopal Church Publishing Company board. He is author of Fling Out the Banner: The National Church Ideal and the Foreign Mission of the Episcopal Church and has edited Beyond Colonial Anglicanism: The Anglican Communion in the Twenty-first Century and Waging Reconciliation: God’s Mission in a Time of Globalization and Crisis.
Emmett Jarrett, TSSF, is a poet, an Episcopal priest, and a Third Order Franciscan. He lives and works at St. Francis House in New London, Conn. St. Francis House is a place of prayer in the inner city, a house of hospitality and a center for justice ministry. Jarrett is also national coordinator of the Episcopal Urban Caucus.
Ben MacConnell, who is based in Kansas, is a communications officer for the DART (Direct Action & Research Training) Center, a national network of local faith-based community organizing groups (www.thedartcenter.org).
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott is Professor of English, Emerita, at the William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J., and author of numerous books on sexuality and sexual ethics, among them Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach (Pilgrim Press, 2001). She is a Witness contributing editor.
Roy Nielsen is an educator who now makes furniture and restores antiques. He belongs to St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Easton, Mass.
Peter Selby, Bishop of Worcester, England, is author of Grace and Mortgage: The Language of Faith and the Debt of the World (Karton, Longman and Todd, 1997). He is a Witness contributing editor.