Interviews

Brekus teaches American religious history at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is the author of Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 and editor of The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past.

Dreisbach is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University. His areas of specialty include American constitutional law and history, First Amendment law and church-state relations.

A professor of religion at Wellesley College, Marini specializes in religion in Revolutionary America.

McGreevy is a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Catholicism and American Freedom: A History.

Prothero is a professor of religion at Boston University and the author of several books, including 2007's Religious Literacy: What Americans Need to Know. He is also a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

Gurock is a professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University and chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society.

Lyerly is an associate professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses in American women's history, race, gender and the South.

Prothero is a professor of religion at Boston University and the author of several books, including 2007's Religious Literacy: What Americans Need to Know. He is also a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

Sussman is the rabbi of the Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, Pa.

Washington is a professor of history at Cornell University. Her most recent book is Sojourner Truth's America.

White is an author and editor who has written extensively about Abraham Lincoln. His recent books include A. Lincoln: A Biography and Lincoln's Greatest Speech.

Balmer is a professor of American religious history at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is an editor at Christianity Today and author of several books, including God in the White House.

Carson is a professor of history at Stanford University and director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute.

Pastor emeritus of Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., Dobson worked for Jerry Falwell for more than a decade, and drafted the Moral Majority's platform. He later co-authored Blinded by Might, a book critical of the religious right.

A professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Gordon holds advanced degrees in history, religion and law. She recently published The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America.

Lambert is a professor of history at Purdue University and the author of The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America.

Prothero is a professor of religion at Boston University and the author of several books, including 2007's Religious Literacy: What Americans Need to Know. He is also a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

Rev. Rodriguez is on the executive board of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, the largest Latino Christian organization in America.

Schaeffer is the author of Crazy for God and Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don't Like Religion (or Atheism). He is the son of the late Francis Schaeffer, a prominent evangelical theologian.

Imam Siddiqi is the chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America and the educational and religious director of the Islamic Society of Orange County, Calif.