Robert E. Ayers is the former art director of Organic Gardening magazine. He is a founding partner of the design firm Publication Design Inc. For more than twenty years Ayers has been presenting design seminars with business partner John Johanek.

 

Barbara E. Bowe, R.S.C.J., teaches biblical studies at Catholic Theological Union at Chicago and serves on the editorial boards of Catholic Biblical Quarterly, The Bible Today, and Theological Education.

 

Diane Bugeja is a lecturer at Iowa State University in the School of Journalism and Communication. She teaches news writing, public relations, and photography.

 

Brian Cleveland is the copy desk chief at The Virginian-Pilot serving southeast Virginia and northeast North Carolina.

 

Daniel deRoulet is professor of English at Vanguard University of Southern California and author of Finding Your Plot in a Plotless World (Brazos Press, 2007).

 

Sandi Dolbee is the religion and ethics editor/writer of the San Diego Union-Tribune and is a past president of the Religion Newswriters Association.

 

Mary Dunklin is editor of a weekly health section at The Dallas Morning News. She has helped launch two publications for the paper, including a lifestyles magazine.

 

Nancy Fitzgerald is executive editor of Church Publishing. She has served as a contributing editor with Scholastic, Inc. and Careers & Colleges magazine.

 

Terence E. Fretheim is the Elva B. Lovell Professor of Old Testament  at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.

 

Helen Harmelink Cepero is director of spiritual formation at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago. Her book, Journaling as a Spiritual Practice, will be released by InterVarsity Press in July.

 

Andrew Herrmann is a twenty-five year veteran of the Chicago Sun Times, serving as Sunday editor, editoral page columnist, religion writer, and general assignment reporter.

 

Pamela Hill Nettleton teaches magazine writing at the University of Minnesota. A past editor of several regional magazines, consultant and editor on start up magazines for Reader’s Digest and the Pioneer Press, she has published twenty-one books.

 

John Johanek is a partner at Ayers/Johanek Publication Design, Inc., with more than thirty years of publishing design experience. He and his firm have designed, launched, redesigned and art-directed more than 250 magazines.

 

Sammye Johnson is a professor in the department of communication at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where she holds the Carlos Augustus de Lozano Chair in Journalism. She is the author of The Magazine from Cover to Cover 2^nd Edition (2007).

 

Joel Kilpatrick is founder of LarkNews.com, a religion satire website, and an award-winning journalist and author. His book, A Field Guide to Evangelicals and Their Habitat was published by HarperCollins in 2006.

 

Linda Lawson retired in 2002 from LifeWay Christian Resources, Nashville, after working thirty-one years as an editor, writer, manager, and director of corporate communications. She now works as a freelance writer and consultant in communications planning.

 

James Manney is senior editor of Loyola Press in Chicago. He edits the annual collection Best Catholic Writing.

 

Melanie Rigney, former editor of Writer’s Digest, provides services to more than 150 authors, publishers, and agents through her business, Editor for You, in Arlington, Virginia.

 

Nancy L. Roberts is professor of journalism at the University of Albany and author/coauthor of two books on Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker.

 

James F. Scotton, professor journalism at Marquette University, has worked for four daily newspapers in Chicago and Washington, and has written extensively on journalism and international communication.

 

Katie Shull is art director for the communications department of LifeWay Christian Resources.

 

Nancy J. Stelling is the former editor of Lutheran Woman Today and managing editor of World Encounter and Interaction magazines, and served as secretary for program resources for Lutheran Church Women.

 

Bruce Tomaso, staff writer and editor at the Dallas Morning News since 1984, served as editor of the paper’s award-winning religion section from 2003 to 2007.

 

Madison Trammel oversees the news and book review setions of Christianity Today magazine.

 

Kent Travis is a twenty-one-year veteran visual journalist with Gannett and worked at U.S.A. Today as a visual artist. He is currently the graphics editor at The Tennessean in Nashville.

 

Victoria M. Tufano is pastoral associate and director of liturgy at Ascension Catholic Church in Oak Park, Illinois. She has previously served as senior editor at Liturgy Training Publications.

 

Jim Veneman is director of visual communication at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. He leads workshops on photojournalism and directs news-photo operations across the United States and internationally.

 

Ken Waters is a professor of journalism at Pepperdine University where he also serves as adviser to the student newspaper and magazine.

 

Robert O. Wyatt, rector of St. Helena’s Episcopal Church, Burr Ridge, Illinois, was a director of communication research and professor of journalism at Middle Tennessee State University. He served as book review editor for the Nashville Tennessean.

 

Jason L. Young is an adviser to the Saint Louis University student newspaper and OneWorld, a magazine dedicated to global social justice. He has workied with daily newspapers including The New York Times, the Dallas Morning News, The Indianapolis Star, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

 

Eric Zorn has been a columnist for the Chicago Tribune for twenty-two years.