Marie M. Fortune (M.Div., Yale Divinity School) is Founder and Senior Analyst of the FaithTrust Institute (formerly The Center for the Prevention of Sexual & Domestic Violence) in Seattle, Washington. A clergywoman in the United Church of Christ, she is also an educator and author, as well as a practicing ethicist and theologian. Her books include Sexual Violence: The Unmentionable Sin (Pilgrim, 1983), Is Nothing Sacred: When Sex Invades the Pastoral Relationship (Harper & Row, 1989), Keeping the Faith: Guidance for Christian Women Facing Abuse (HarperOne, 1995), and Sexual Violence: The Sin Revisited (Pilgrim, 2005).
Annette Bourland Huizenga (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Dean of the Seminary and Associate Professor of New Testament at University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa. She writes and teaches on the rhetorical purposes of the Pauline letters, specifically their teachings on gender and sexuality, household roles, the status of women, slavery, and other social issues that surface within the early Christian assemblies. Her most recent book is 1–2 Timothy, Titus in the Wisdom Commentary series (Michael Glazier, 2016). She was ordained by LaSalle Street Church in Chicago, Illinois.
Marianne Bjelland Kartzow (Ph.D., University of Oslo) is Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research interests include New Testament exegesis and reception history, interpretative issues, gender theory, and ancient social history. She has published three books: Gossip and Gender: Othering of Speech in the Pastoral Epistles (DeGruyter, 2009), Destabilizing the Margins: An Intersectional Approach to Early Christian Memory (Wipf and Stock, 2012), and The Slave Metaphor and Gendered Enslavement in Early Christian Discourse: Double Trouble Embodied (Routledge, 2018).
Margaret Y. MacDonald (D.Phil., University of Oxford) is Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her research interests include Paul, the disputed Pauline letters, women and gender in early Christianity, and early Christian families. Her publications include The Power of Children: The Construction of Christian Families in the Roman World (Baylor University Press, 2014); with Carolyn Osiek and Margaret Y. MacDonald, A Woman’s Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity (Fortress, 2006); Colossians and Ephesians, Sacra Pagina (Michael Glaier, 2000); Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion: The Power of the Hysterical Woman (Cambridge University Press, 1996); The Pauline Churches: A Socio-historical Study of Institutionalization in the Pauline and Deutero-Pauline Writings (Cambridge University Press, 1988).
