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Randall Balmer is the John Phillips Professor in Religion, the oldest endowed chair at Dartmouth College. Before coming to Dartmouth in 2012, he was a professor of American religious history at Columbia University for twenty-seven years. In addition, Balmer has been a visiting professor at Princeton, Yale, Emory, and Northwestern universities and in the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He was an adjunct professor of church history at Union Theological Seminary and, from 2004 to 2008, a visiting professor at Yale Divinity School.

An award-winning historian, Balmer is the author of more than a dozen books, including听Grant Us Courage: Travels along the Mainline of American Protestantism听and听Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter. His second book,听Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America, now in its fifth edition, was made into a three-part documentary for PBS. Balmer was nominated for an Emmy for writing and hosting that series. He has published several reviews in听Washington Post Book World听and the听New York Times Book Review, and his commentaries on religion in America have appeared in newspapers across the country, including the听Los Angeles Times,听Washington Post,听Des Moines Register,听Minneapolis Star Tribune, and the听New York Times. Balmer听is also a CNN contributor.听In 2024, Balmer was the recipient of the Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion from the American Academy of Religion.

M. Cathleen Kaveny听is a scholar who focuses on the relationship of law, religion, and morality, serves as the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor at Boston College, a position that includes appointments in both the department of theology and the law school. She is the first faculty member to hold such a joint appointment. A member of the Massachusetts Bar, Kaveny clerked for the Honorable John T. Noonan Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked as an associate at the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray in its health law group. She was the 2018-2019 Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress. Kaveny has published four books and over a hundred articles and essays, in journals and books specializing in law, ethics, and medical ethics. She serves on the masthead of听Commonweal听as a regular columnist. Her books include听Law鈥檚 Virtues: Fostering Autonomy and Solidarity in American Society听(Georgetown University Press, 2012);听A Culture of Engagement: Law, Religion, and Morality听(Georgetown University Press, 2016);听Prophecy without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square听(Harvard University Press, 2016); and听Ethics at the Edges of Law: Christian Moralists and American Legal Thought听(Oxford University Press, 2018). Kaveny regularly teaches contract law to first-year law students. She also teaches a number of seminars which explore the relationship between theology, philosophy, and law, such as 鈥淔aith, Morality, and Law,鈥� 鈥淢ercy and Justice,鈥� and 鈥淐omplicity.鈥� Kaveny is the chair of the board of trustees of the听Journal of Religious Ethics.听She has been the president of the Society of Christian Ethics, the major professional society for scholars of Christian ethics and moral theology in North America. It meets annually in conjunction with the Society of Jewish Ethics and the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics. Kaveny has served on a number of editorial boards including听The American Journal of Jurisprudence,听The Journal of Religious Ethics, the听Journal of Law and Religion, and听The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. She has been a visiting professor at Princeton University, Yale University, and Georgetown University, and a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago鈥檚 Martin Marty Center. From 1995 until 2013 she taught law and theology at the University of Notre Dame, where she was a John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law.听

Mark Massa, S.J., is the director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College, where he is also professor of Theology. Massa received his Ph.D. in American religion from Harvard University, and is the author of eight books. His most recent book,听Catholic Fundamentalism in America,听is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. His monograph published in 1999,听Catholics and American Culture: Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame Football Team,听received the Alpha Sigma Nu Award for Best Work in Theology for 1999-2000. His ongoing area of research is American Catholic faith and culture of the past century.听As first holder of the Karl Rahner Chair in Theology at Fordham University, Massa also directed the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. From 2010 to 2016, he served as dean of the School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College. He also served as board chair for the Boston Theological Institute, a consortium of nine divinity schools, seminaries, and a rabbinical college in greater Boston. Massa has appeared on a number of programs in the "American Experience" series on PBS, including "Religion in America," and most recently, "An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story."

James O'Toole is听the听University听Historian and Clough Professor of History Emeritus. His new book,听For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America, has just been published from Harvard University Press.