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Editor Mark Silk is professor of religion in public life at Trinity College (Hartford, CT), and a leading expert on how religion is covered in the media. He is the founding director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and founding editor of Religion in the News, a magazine published by the Center. Silk is the author of Spiritual Politics: Religion and America Since World War II and Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America. He is co-editor of Religion by Region, an eight-volume series on religion and public life in the United States, and co-author (with Andrew Walsh) of the forthcoming One Nation Divisible: Religion and Region in America Today. Silk is also the co-editor of the upcoming book series The Future of Religion in America.

Jan Shipps is professor emeritus of religious studies and history at Indiana University-Purdue University, and one of the foremost scholars of Mormonism. She is the author of Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition and a senior editor of The Journals of William McLellin, 1831-1836, the earliest extended account of the Mormon experience. Shipps was the first non-Mormon (and first woman) elected president of the Mormon History Association. Her articles about the Latter-day Saints have been published in a variety of academic and popular journals, and her book Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons combines her personal experiences among the Mormons with a lifetime of study and observation. She is now at work on a book about Mormonism Since World War II.

John C. Green is director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Akron, and also serves as a senior fellow in religion and American politics at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. He has done extensive research on American religious communities and politics. In addition to publishing his most recent book The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections, published by Praeger in 2007 as the first volume in a Greenberg Center series on Religion, Society and Politics. In addition, Green is the co-author of The Values Campaign: The Christian Right in American Politics, The Bully Pulpit: The Politics of Protestant Clergy, and Religion and the Culture Wars. In addition he is widely known as an observer of national and Ohio politics, and is frequently quoted in the press, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, NPR, CNN, ABC and CBS.

Jerome Chanes has taught American Jewish sociology, Jewish public policy issues, and biblical Hebrew at Barnard College, Stern College, Harvard University, Brandeis and Yeshiva University. He is the co-editor most recently of A Portrait of the American Jewish Community (1998), and is the author of A Dark Side of History: Antisemitism through the Ages (2000) and of the widely-used monograph A Primer on the American Jewish Community (1999), as well as an author and editor of the second edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica.

Reid Vineis is an undergraduate fellow at the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public life. A member of the Trinity College class of 2010 from Columbus, Ohio, he is an editorial assistant for Religion in the News magazine.

Richard L. Wood is director of religious studies and associate professor of sociology at University of New Mexico. In his research and writing, Wood examines the cultural and institutional underpinnings of democratic life, especially those linked to religion. He is the author of Faith in Action: Religion, Race, and Democratic Organizing in America.