Naim Ateek, an Anglican priest, is a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship. He is founder and director of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem. He is the author of Justice and Only Justice (Orbis Books).
Michael Battle is an assistant professor of spirituality at Duke University Divinity School and rector of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church in Raleigh, N.C. He is author of Reconciliation: The Ubuntu Theology of Desmond Tutu (Pilgrim Press) and The Wisdom of Desmond Tutu (Westminster-JohnKnox). He is a Witness contributing editor.
Kevin P.J. Coffey is rector of the Episcopal Church of the Atonement, Fair Lawn, N.J.
Michael Datcher is the author of New York Times bestseller Raising Fences (Riverhead Books) and the director of literary programs at the World Stage Writer’s Workshop in Los Angeles, Calif.
Lynn Gottlieb is one of the first women to become a rabbi in Jewish history and currently serves Congregation Nahalat Shalom in Albuquerque, N.M. She has actively pursued Jewish-Palestinian reconciliation for the past 35 years. Gottlieb is an author, storyteller and percussionist and travels frequently in her work as ritual artist and peace activist.
Robert Hirschfield is a freelance writer living in New York City.
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott is Professor of English, Emerita, at 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.
Winnie Varghese, a Witness contributing editor, is the Episcopal chaplain at Columbia University in New York City.
Rima Vesely a Witness contributing editor, lives in Oakland, Calif. In addition to selecting poetry for The Witness, she writes on issues of racism, immigration and incarceration.