Luke Timothy Johnson is R.W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. He holds a B.A. from Notre Dame Seminary, an M.A. from Indiana University, an. M. Div. from Saint Meinrad School of Theology and a Ph.D. from Yale. His research interests include the Jewish and Graeco-Roman contexts of early Christianity, Luke-Acts, the Pastoral Letters and the Letter of James. The most recent of his 21 books are The First and Second Letters to Timothy (2001) and Living Jesus: Learning the Heart of the Gospel (1999).

Stephanie Paulsell is Associate Dean for Ministerial Studies and Senior Lecturer on Ministry at Harvard Divinity School. She joined the HDS faculty in 2001 and was appointed to her administrative post in 2003. Before that, she served as director of ministry studies and Senior Lecturer in Religion and Literature at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She studies the points of intersection between intellectual work and spiritual practice, between academic study of religion and the practices of ministry, and between the contemplative and active dimensions of the vocations of minister and teacher. She is the author of Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice and co-editor of The Scope of Our Art: The Vocation of the Theological Teacher.

Jack Stotts is President Emeritus of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, where he served from 1985 to 1996. For the previous ten years, he was President of McCormick Theological Seminary, where he also taught Christian Ethics. He has served pastorates in Connecticut and Texas. His extensive service to the national church includes chairing the UPCUSA’s Advisory Committee on Church and Society, and moderating the Special Committee to Prepare a Brief Statement of the Reformed Faith for the PC(USA). He is the author of Believing, Deciding and Acting and Shalom: The Search for a Peaceable City, and co-editor of To Confess the Faith Today. A graduate of Trinity University (San Antonio), McCormick Seminary and Yale University (Ph.D. in Christian Ethics), he is the recipient of two honorary degrees. He received the 2003 Award for Excellence in Theological Education from the Committee on Theological Education.

Susan Andrews was Moderator of the 215th General Assembly, the first woman in parish ministry elected to the post. She is pastor of Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Maryland. In her 30 years of ministry, she has also served churches in East Hanover, New Jersey, and Allentown, Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard Divinity School; she received her D.Min. from McCormick. She was named Preacher of the Year in 2000 by Lectionary Homiletics. Susan was a member of the Covenant Network Board from its founding in 1997 until her election as Moderator.

Gene Bay is Pastor of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He has also served as pastor of churches in Rochester, New York; Youngstown, Ohio; and Darlington, Maryland. He holds a B.A. from the College of Wooster, a B.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a D.Min.from McCormick Theological Seminary. Gene has served on the advisory board of The Living Pulpit, the Wooster College Board of Trustees, and the McCormick Board of Trustees. He has been a member of Covenant Network’s Executive Committee since its founding; he became Co-Moderator in 2001.

Amy Miracle became Pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Des Moines, Iowa at the beginning of 2004, after serving as associate pastor and acting head of staff at Central Presbyterian Church in Denver. She grew up in Dayton, Ohio and attended Princeton University. She received a Masters degree in Social Sciences from Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, then a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York. She was awarded the David H.C. Read Preacher/Scholar Award at Union and preached at one of the daily worship services at the 2003 General Assembly.

Rick Spalding is Chaplain and Coordinator of Community Service at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. His previous calls have included a co-pastorate at the Church of the Covenant in Boston, campus ministry at Harvard University, teaching at Harvard Divinity School and Andover-Newton Theological School, and pastorates at Central Presbyterian Church in New York City and Westminister Presbyterian Church in Albany, New York. He is a graduate of Yale College, and prepared for ministry at Yale Divinity School and Union Theological Seminary (NYC).