Andrew Bolton, PhD, was a British schoolteacher and college lecturer in multifaith religious education before working for Community of Christ for eighteen years, first coordinating peace and justice ministries and then coordinating the church in Asia. He has been published in Dialogue, the Journal of Mormon History, the John Whitmer Historical Association Journal, and Restoration Studies. He and his wife, Jewell, have two sons, Matthew and David, and one grandchild, Carson Breay. They live in retirement as active church volunteers in Leicester, England.

Dr. Gina Colvin is a New Zealand Māori who grew up as a Latter-day Saint. She currently worships locally with the Anglican Church and internationally with Community of Christ. She hosts the podcast A Thoughtful Faith—conversations about spiritual and religious life on the other side of extreme orthodoxy. Gina and her Latter-day Saint husband, Nathan, are the parents of one agnostic, one practicing Pentecostal, and four mostly Anglican—periodically Community of Christ—but sometimes Latter-day Saint—sons, who quite like Buddhism.

Eva M. Erickson works as an information specialist for the German Institute for Standardization (DIN). She is the national coordinator of Community of Christ in Germany, serves as a high priest, and has earned her master of arts in religion from Community of Christ Seminary at Graceland University. After spending several years in the United States, she now lives with her husband, John, and their two children, Daniel and Miriam, in Berlin, Germany.

Scott C. Esplin is the dean of Religious Education and a professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University. Prior to joining the faculty, he earned both a doctoral and master’s degree in educational leadership and foundations from Brigham Young University. His research and teaching interests include the Doctrine and Covenants, the history of Latter-day Saint education, and church historic sites. He is the author of numerous publications on these subjects, including an award-winning book on the restoration of Nauvoo.

Taunalyn Ford, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Brigham Young University Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. For the previous seven years she was adjunct faculty in church history and doctrine at BYU. Taunalyn received her BA and MA degrees at BYU and her PhD in history of Christianity and religions of North America at Claremont Graduate University. Her publications and current book projects focus on Latter-day Saints in India.

Matthew J. Frizzell, PhD, is currently adjunct faculty for Community of Christ Seminary at Graceland University and has been a faculty member at Graceland since 2011. Matt was dean of Community of Christ Seminary from 2015 to 2018. He currently serves as director of human resource ministries for Community of Christ International Headquarters in Independence, Missouri. Matt has served Community of Christ in full-time ministry as a pastor, campus minister, and church administrator. Matt’s scholarship is in contemporary theology, Community of Christ theology, critical social theory, and social ethics. He is married to Dr. Margo E. Frizzell and has three daughters, Katy, Kenzlee, and Kyla. They live in Chicago, Illinois.

Alonzo L. Gaskill, PhD, is a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, having been reared in the Greek Orthodox tradition. He has taught religion for the Church Educational System for thirty years—the last two decades at Brigham Young University, where he is a professor of world religions. His research interests lie in the fields of world religions, temple worship, symbolism, and Latter-day Saint theology. He has written more than two dozen books and numerous articles on various aspects of religious studies.

Kat Goheen grew up in Independence, Missouri, and has been active in Community of Christ her whole life. Her roles include high priest, pastor, and team mission center president for Western Canada. She has two degrees in biblical studies from the Vancouver School of Theology. Kat also serves on various church boards and teams, teaches Hebrew Bible in weekend intensives, and is a trained spiritual director. She shares her love of music and laughter with her husband, Jon, and two wonderful daughters in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Casey Paul Griffiths is an associate teaching professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history, a master’s degree in religious education, and a PhD in educational leadership and foundations. He lives in Saratoga Springs, Utah, with his wife, Elizabeth, and their four adorable children.

Maclane Heward, PhD, has been teaching in the Seminaries and Institutes of Religion system for twelve years. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Brigham Young University in public relations and religious education, respectively. His PhD is in the history of Christianity and religions of North America from Claremont Graduate University. His research interests focus primarily on evangelism among Protestants and Latter-day Saints. He and his wife, Maria, have five children and currently reside in Cedar Hills, Utah.

Katherine Hill is a sixth-generation member of Community of Christ and a professional historian. She grew up attending World Church events at the Community of Christ Temple in Independence, Missouri. She received a BA in history and international studies from Graceland University and an MA in history from Georgia Southern University. She was a summer intern in both Kirtland and Nauvoo. She is the Restoration Studies journal editor and has served on the John Whitmer Historical Association Board.

David J. Howlett, PhD, is the Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion at Smith College. He is the author of Kirtland Temple: The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space and a coauthor of Mormonism: The Basics. An elder in Community of Christ, David serves as one of its World Church historians. He and his wife, the Reverend Anna Woofenden (Episcopal Church), reside with their infant daughter in Easthampton, Massachusetts.

Lachlan Mackay serves in Community of Christ’s Council of Twelve Apostles and oversees the Northeast USA Mission Field. He also manages Community of Christ historic sites and is the Church History and Sacred Story Ministries team lead. He is a past president of the John Whitmer Historical Association and has published articles on the Kirtland Temple and the Smith family in the Journal of Mormon History, the John Whitmer Historical Association Journal, and Latter-day Saint Historical Studies.

Robert L. Millet is professor emeritus of religious education at Brigham Young University, where he taught for thirty-one years. There he served as chair of the Department of Ancient Scripture and dean of Religious Education. Since 1997 he has been engaged in interfaith dialogues with scholars from evangelical Christianity, the Church of the Nazarene, and Community of Christ. He and his wife, Shauna, are the parents of six children and twelve grandchildren and reside in Orem, Utah.

Richard G. Moore was raised in Salem, Utah. He received a master’s degree in history from Brigham Young University and a doctorate in education from the University of the Pacific. He was an instructor for the Latter-day Saint Church Educational System for thirty-eight years, teaching seminary and institute and teaching classes at BYU. He is the author of several books, including A Comparative Look at Mormonism and Community of Christ. He and his wife, Lani, have three children, Adam, Travis, and Asia, and nine grandchildren. They live in Orem, Utah.

Barbara Morgan Gardner, PhD, is an associate professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University. She serves as the chaplain-at-large in higher education for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She is the author of The Priesthood Power of Women in the Temple, Church, and Family. Barbara and her husband, Dustin, live in Highland, Utah, and have two daughters, Alli and Jane.

Joshua Sears is an assistant professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University. He has a PhD in Hebrew Bible from the University of Texas at Austin and writes on Israelite prophecy, marriage, and families in the ancient world and on the publication history of Latter-day Saint scripture. He and his wife, Alice, live in Lindon, Utah, with their five children.

Christie Skoorsmith, MA, is a third-generation Community of Christ member and an ordained elder who has worked and volunteered for the church in Africa, Central America, and Europe. Currently she is an international business manager for a medical device company in Seattle, Washington. She has been published in various peace studies journals, as well as in a book about Gandhi’s relevance in the twenty-first century. She and her husband have three children, ages twelve, ten, and ten, and two cats. She enjoys gardening, sustainable living, and painting.

John Taylor, PhD, is a pastor of Community of Christ, Drummoyne Congregation, and has published articles on theology, policy, and mission in the Australian Herald and the Saints’ Herald. John was a legal practitioner for seven years and then a tax law academic for thirty-five years. He is currently an emeritus professor in taxation law at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He and his wife, Janine Wood, live in Sydney, Australia, and have two adult children, Hannah and Colin.

Jordan T. Watkins received his PhD in American history from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His book, Slavery and Sacred Texts: The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness in Antebellum America, examines the ways in which biblical and constitutional debates over slavery brought awareness to the historical distances separating Americans from their hallowed biblical and revolutionary pasts. Before joining the faculty in Religious Education at BYU, Jordan was a volume editor of the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers.

Dr. Keith J. Wilson hails from Ridgecrest, California. He is an associate professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University, where he regularly teaches a variety of scripture courses. In 2008 he spent a year at the BYU Jerusalem Center. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from BYU. He also received a PhD in educational administration from the University of Utah. His educational specialty is institutional change, and he researches and publishes about the fundamental changes in Community of Christ.