Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Dean of Humanities and Theological Studies, Wheaton College. She won the White Eagle Coffee Store Press's poetry chapbook contest, the Goodman Award, an Illinois Arts Council Award, the Illinois Prize of Rock River Poetry Contest, and a Fulbright. She has served as poetry editor of The Cresset, First Things, and River Oak Review and currently is poetry editor of The Christian Century. She is past president of the Conference on Christianity and Literature. Author of Flannery O'Connor: A Proper Scaring, three volumes of poetry (Leaving Eden, Namings, and Finding Cuba), and numerous reviews.

David Lyle Jeffrey, B.A., Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Literature and Humanities, Baylor University. Previously served as Department Chair of English both at the University of Victoria and the University of Ottawa. Dr. Jeffrey was named Inaugural Professor of the Year at the University of Ottawa in 1995. He has been a Guest Professor at Peking University (Beijing) since 1996. He has taught at the University of Rochester, University of Hull (U.K.) and been a visiting faculty member at Notre Dame and at Regent College (U.B.C.). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1996. Author of People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture; Houses of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture; The Poetry of William Cowper and other books; holder of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature/Modern Language Association.

David Naugle, B.A., Th.M., Th.D., Ph.D. Chair and Professor of Philosophy, Dallas Baptist University. The director of the Paideia College Society (formerly the Pew College Society). Dr. Naugle established and directs a weekly lecture series called "Friday Symposium". He is also a Fellow for the Wilberforce Forum, the Christian think tank sponsored by Prison Fellowship in Washington, D.C. Prior to his post at DBU, Dr. Naugle was an adjunct professor of religion at the University of Texas at Arlington from 1980-1988, where he served concurrently as a campus minister at UTA as a staff member for Pantego Bible Church in Arlington, Texas. Author of Worldview: The History of a Concept.