*Indicates Invited Panelist
** Indicates 2004 and/or 2006 Panelist

*Gary L. Bauer is one of America’s most effective spokesmen for pro-life, pro-family, and pro-growth values. Bauer is a frequent guest on a wide variety of political talk shows and a much-in-demand speaker nationwide. He is founder of the Campaign for Working Families, a political action committee dedicated to electing pro-family, pro-life conservatives to public office. Notably, Bauer served in President Ronald Reagan's administration for eight years, and later became President of the Family Research Council and a Senior Vice President of Focus on the Family, which grew exponentially under his leadership. Bauer is also the author of numerous books and publications.

*Bishop Wellington Boone, founder of Wellington Boone Ministries, began his ministry more than 30 years ago with Word of Faith seminars, and soon established churches in Ettrick and Richmond, Virginia, that had a strong outreach to student athletes and historically Black and other college campuses. Global Outreach Campus Ministries is still training leaders who have stood the test of time. Bishop Boone is a popular host on Christian television, a best-selling author, and popular speaker for Promise Keepers, Focus on the Family, and other national conferences for denominations and ministries. He is the founder and bishop of The Father’s House Church in Atlanta, and international bishop of the Fellowship of International Churches. He also founded the Network of Politically Active Christians (NPAC) with headquarters in Washington, DC, Kingmaker Women, and the Goshen Learning Center in South Africa.

*Tony Campolo, professor emeritus at Eastern University, is the founder of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education, an organization that develops schools and social programs in various third world countries and in cities across North America. He is the author of 35 books, including the recent titles Red Letter Christians, A Citizen’s Guide to Faith and Politics, Letters to a Young Evangelical, and The God of Intimacy and Action. Dr. Campolo is also a media commentator on religious, social, and political matters, and has appeared on television programs such as Nightline, Crossfire, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, and Larry King Live among others

**Jeff Carr is the Chief Operating Officer of Sojourners/Call to Renewal, which is located in Washington, DC. Sojourner's mission is to articulate the biblical call to social justice, while inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world. In June 2006, Sojourners joined forces with Call to Renewal seeking to build a movement that puts faith to work for justice. The Call to Renewal mission to overcome poverty continues even more strongly with the recently launched Covenant for a New America, which commits to put poverty on the forefront of the political agenda by the 2008 elections.

**Reverend Richard Cizik is Vice President for Governmental Affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE). His primary responsibilities include setting the NAE’s policy direction on issues before Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court, as well as serving as a national spokesman on issues of concern to evangelicals. In this role, Rev. Cizik urged policy-makers to add “religion” to the annual human rights report in 1980. The U.S. Department of State recognized this significant change by co-hosting with the NAE and other groups an International Religious Freedom Conference. Rev. Cizik is frequently quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Washington Times, and has appeared on news shows including CNN Headline News, and PBS’s Ethics & Religion News Weekly.

*Michael Eric Dyson is a renowned scholar, ordained Baptist minister, and public intellectual. He has been named by Ebony magazine as one of the hundred most influential Black Americans, and is the author of fourteen books, including Come Hell or High Water. Dyson is University Professor at Georgetown University, where he teaches theology, English, and African American studies. His innovative scholarship, combining cultural criticism and biography, focuses on race, religion, popular culture, and contemporary issues in the African American community.

**The Honorable Reverend Walter E. Fauntroy, pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. since 1959, has spent more than forty-six years as a Christian minister, civil rights activist, member of Congress, and human rights activist. Rev. Fauntroy served as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s personal representative to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and was the D.C. Coordinator of the historic march on Washington and other marches from 1963-1966. Rev. Fauntroy was elected the first delegate to serve the citizens of the District of Columbia as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in 100 years. He is co-chair of the Sudan Campaign, chairman of Business Enterprise Development, LLC, and currently heads up a U.S.-based private sector effort to cure extreme poverty in Africa by the year 2025 in pursuit of the United Nations Millennium Challenge Goals.

**Patricia Ireland, former president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), led the largest, most visible, and most successful feminist organization in the United States from 1991-2001. Ireland's major contributions included organizing NOW activists to defend women's access to abortion, elect a record number of women to political office, work more closely in coalitions with other social justice and civil rights groups, and champion international feminist issues.

**Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr. is senior pastor of Hope Christian Church, headquartered in Bowie, Maryland. Bishop Jackson is also chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition and drafted the Black Contract with America on Moral Values. He is a frequent guest commentator in the news regarding moral value issues in America and has appeared on The Tavis Smiley Show, The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, CBS Nightly News, NPR and many other national TV, radio, and print news outlets.

*Kay Coles James is president and founder of The Gloucester Institute, which trains and nurtures leaders in the African American community. As a frequent commentator and lecturer, James has appeared as a guest on every network morning show and several national news and talk programs, and her editorials have been featured in newspapers across the country. In addition, James is the author of three books, including Transforming America: From the Inside Out. A public servant for 25 years, James was former Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management appointed by President George W. Bush, and was Secretary of Health and Human Services for former Virginia Governor George Allen. She continues her public service by serving as a member of the Medicaid Commission and on the NASA Advisory Council.

*Stephen McDowell is co- founder of the Providence Foundation, which aims to spread liberty, justice, and prosperity among the nations by instructing individuals in a biblical worldview. Mr. McDowell is also president of Biblical Worldview University and has traveled to 40 states and 15 nations in six continents, teaching tens of thousands of people from approximately 100 different countries. He has consulted with numerous government officials, assisted in writing political documents, aided in establishing political parties, and helped start a number of private schools as well as classes on godly reformation. McDowell also has authored and co-authored several books and videos, and written scores of articles for various publications.

*Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education, a nonprofit organization that provides national dialogue on issues of race and poverty in the media, inner city neighborhoods, and public policy. As a social policy consultant, Parker gives regular testimony before the U.S. Congress, and has been featured as a national expert on major television and radio shows across the country. Currently, Parker is a regular commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News. She has debated Jesse Jackson on BET, fought for school choice on Larry King Live, and defended welfare reform on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She also has hosted radio talk shows in Christian and secular markets, and currently is a regular guest editorialist for USA Today.

**Janet Parshall is the host of Janet Parshall's America, a three-hour, nationally syndicated program originating from Washington, D.C. Parshall has been nominated on numerous occasions for talk show program and host of the year awards. She is a devoted advocate of the principles and policies that strengthen the family and defends these principles in the media and across the country. In February 2005, Parshall was selected by President George W. Bush to represent the White House in the capacity of public delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. As a radio and television commentator, author, and advocate for the family, Parshall is much sought after nationwide to speak on public policy issues that impact family preservation and family promotion.

*Dr. Ronald J. Sider is professor of theology, holistic ministry, and public policy as well as director of the Sider Center on Ministry and Public Policy at Palmer Theological Seminary at Eastern University. He is also president of Evangelicals for Social Action. A widely known evangelical speaker and writer, Dr. Sider has spoken on six continents and published 28 books and scores of articles. His most recent book is The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience. Dr. Sider's Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger was recognized by Christianity Today as being among the one hundred most influential religious books of the twentieth century. Dr. Sider is also publisher of PRISM magazine and a contributing editor for Christianity Today and Sojourners. He has lectured at scores of colleges and universities around the world, including Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford. He is also a founding board member of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment.

*Dr. James Skillen became executive director of the Center for Public Justice in 1981, a position he held until he became the organization’s president in September 2000. In addition to editing the Center's quarterly Public Justice Report, Dr. Skillen has authored and edited numerous books and articles, including A Covenant to Keep: Meditations on the Biblical Theme of Justice, and Recharging the American Experiment: Principled Pluralism for Genuine Civic Community He is married to Doreen Skillen, the Center’s administrator. They have two children Jeanene and James (who is married to Beth).

**Reverend Dr. Barbara Skinner is president of the Skinner Leadership Institute (SLI) located in Tracy's Landing, Maryland. SLI is a leadership development organization committed to producing leaders who operate in technical and moral excellence. A nationally recognized spiritual leader, teacher, lecturer, and writer, Dr. Skinner is the author of numerous articles including “The Power of Love,” “Been There, Done That: Why African American Christians Resist Racial Reconciliation,” and a leadership training workbook entitled Becoming An Effective 21st-Century Leader. Dr. Skinner was executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) in Washington, DC, and founded the CBC Prayer Breakfast, which annually attracts more than 3,000 religious and civic leaders from across the nation.

**Jim Slattery, a six-term U.S. Congressman, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee during his entire 12-year tenure in Congress. During his tenure the Committee reauthorized the Clean Air Act and passed such environmental legislations as Superfund and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Slattery also served for six years on the House Budget Committee. He has particular experience in health care, budget, telecommunications, energy, utility, trade, and railroad issues.

*Jim Wallis is president and chief executive officer of Sojourners where he is also editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine, which has a combined print and electronic readership of more than 250,000. Wallis is a bestselling author, public theologian, speaker, preacher, and international commentator on religion and public life, faith, and politics. His columns appear in major newspapers and news journals, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time, and Newsweek. His book God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It was on the New York Times bestseller list for four months. Mr. Wallis regularly appears on radio and television, including shows such as Meet the Press, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the O'Reilly Factor, and is a frequent guest on network news programs. He has taught at Harvard's Divinity School and the Kennedy School of Government on Faith, Politics, and Society. Mr. Wallis has written eight books, including Faith Works, The Soul of Politics, Who Speaks for God? and The Call to Conversion.

*Cornel West, professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University, is one of America's most gifted, provocative, and important public intellectuals. Dr. West has won numerous awards, including the American Book Award and has received more than 20 honorary degrees. Dr. West's best-selling book Race Matters, which has sold more than 400,000 copies, changed the course of America's dialogue on race, justice, and democracy. His writings, along with his frequent lecturing and preaching, have brought Dr. West widespread attention and honors. West's first book, Prophesy Deliverance!, advocates a socially concerned African American Christianity.

*Rev. Ben Campbell is the Pastoral Director of Richmond Hill, an ecumenical Christian community and retreat center on Church Hill in Richmond. A native of Arlington, Virginia, he was ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal Church in 1966. He came to Richmond in 1970 and has lived in Church Hill since that time. He has served three Episcopal Churches, and worked as Communications Director and subsequently Program Director of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. He directed two non-profit corporations -- the Richmond Urban Institute, and Home Base, Incorporated, a neighborhood-based low-income housing corporation. He has degrees in Political Science and Economics from Williams College, a Masters in Divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary, and a Masters in Theology from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

*Dr. Cain Hope Felder is Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and Editor of The Journal of Religious Thought at the Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, DC. Currently serving as Chair of Doctoral Programs, and the Academic Standing Committee at the School of Divinity, he has been on Howard’s faculty since 1981. Prior to coming to Howard, he taught as a member of the Department of Biblical Studies (1978-1981) at Princeton Theological Seminary. The former pastor of Grace United Methodist Church in New York City (1975-1977), Dr. Felder is an ordained Methodist minister who has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church. He now serves as an Elder in the Second Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church where he has been appointed by Bishop Adam Jefferson Richardson as the Resident Biblical Scholar for the District.

From 1969-1972, Dr. Felder worked as the first National Director of the United Methodist Black Caucus, then headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1990, he founded the Biblical Institute of Social Change (BISC). Headquartered in Washington, DC, its mission is to inform, inspire, affirm and transform the Christian community through scholarship and research. As a catalyst for a renewed interest in Biblical Interpretation in diverse quarters, BISC seeks to re-educate for social change by mobilizing churches and other religious organizations through Biblical research, educational resources, documentary films, study tours, seminars, summits and workshops, and leadership retreats. BISC also serves prisons and half-way houses, and collaborates with local churches and campus ministries.

Dr. Felder holds a Ph.D. and a Master of Philosophy degree in Biblical Languages and Literature from Columbia University in New York; a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York; a Diploma of Theology from Oxford University, Mansfield College in England; a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Greek & Latin from Howard University in Washington, DC; and a Diploma from the Boston Latin School.

A prolific writer, his publications include the newly published commentary True to Our Native Land (Augsburg Fortress, May, 2007), the first African American commentary on the New Testament; Troubling Biblical Waters: Race, Class, and Family (Orbis Books, 1989) – 16th printing; Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation (Fortress Press, 1991) – 10th printing; The Seasons of Lent: Proclamation Commentary (Fortress Press, 1991); The Original African Heritage Study Bible (Winston Publishing Company, 1993); “Commentary on the Epistle of James” in the International Bible Commentary (Liturgical Press, 1998) Consulting Editor and Contributor, The African American Jubilee Bible (American Bible Society, 1999); and Co-Editor Jubilee Legacy Bible (Nashville: Townsend Press, 2000). He has written introductions and prefaces to numerous books, and most recently served as co-editor of the first African American New Testament Commentary that was published in November, 2006.

The recipient of many awards, Dr. Felder recently received The Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom Award, the Progressive National Baptist Convention’s highest honor. His book, Troubling Biblical Waters, was nominated for the Schomburg prize for Excellence in Black History and Culture. It was also translated into Braille and made available through audiotapes for the visually impaired by the Library of Congress. Dr. Felder has been prominently featured in articles, newspapers, and magazines from coast to coast, including but not limited to USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, EBONY, JET, EMERGE, The Atlanta Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education and The New York times. He has appeared on numerous television programs such as BET, PBS, and NBC. Of notable mention was Dr. Felder’s invitation to serve as consultant to Show Time Networks, Inc. for the premier film “Solomon and Sheba” in which, for the first time, the television and film industry gave historical realism of the characters by selecting people of color to play the title roles.

Maintaining dual residences in Washington, DC and his home haven in Mobile, Alabama that he shares with his bride, Dr. Jewell, affectionately called “Dr. J.”, Dr. Felder is the proud father of one daughter, Miss Akidah Felder, a graduate of Spellman College and current dual Masters’ student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.