Roger J. Gench (Ph.D., Union Presbyterian Seminary) served as the Senior Pastor of The New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC from 2002–2019. He is currently Theologian in Residence at Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia and an adjunct faculty member at Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond. He has served as the Interim Editor and Editorial Consultant for the Presbyterian Outlook, and he is the author of Theology from the Trenches: Reflections on Urban Ministry (Westminster John Knox, 2014) and The Cross Examen: A Spirituality for Activists (Cascade, 2020).
Michael J. Gorman (Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary), a Methodist layperson, holds the Raymond E. Brown Chair in Biblical Studies and Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore. His primary interest is New Testament theology and spirituality, with a special focus on the Pauline and Johannine literature. His books include Cruciformity: Paul’s Narrative Spirituality of the Cross (Eerdmans, 2001); Reading Revelation Responsibly (Cascade, 2010); Becoming the Gospel: Paul, Participation and Mission (Eerdmans, 2015); Participating in Christ (Baker Academic, 2019); Abide and Go: Missional Theosis in the Gospel of John (Cascade, 2018); and Elements of Biblical Exegesis (Baker Academic, 2020), now in its third edition. He has just completed a theological and pastoral commentary on Romans.
S. Mark Heim (Ph.D., Boston College and Andover Newton Seminary) is the Samuel Abbot Professor of Christian Theology at Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut. He has been deeply involved in theologies of religious pluralism, comparative theology, Christian ecumenism, and constructive soteriology. His works include Salvations: Truth and Difference in Religion (Orbis, 1995), The Depth of the Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends (Eerdmans, 2001), Saved from Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross (Eerdmans, 2006), and Crucified Wisdom: Theological Reflection on Christ and the Bodhisattva (Fordham University Press, 2019). An ordained American Baptist minister, he has represented his denomination on the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches.
Suzanne Watts Henderson (Ph.D., Duke University) is Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Dean of the Chapel at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her publications include Christology and Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark (Cambridge, 2006); Christ and Community: The Gospel Witness to Jesus (Abingdon, 2015); The Cross in Contexts: Redemptive Suffering in Palestine (co-author, Mitri Raheb; Orbis, 2017); and New Testament Conversations: A Literary, Historical, and Pluralistic Introduction (Abingdon, 2019). She is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
