Samuel L. Adams (Ph.D., Yale University) is the Mary Jane and John F. McNair Chair of Biblical Studies at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. His interests include the biblical wisdom literature, wealth and poverty in the biblical world, apocalypticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Egyptology, biblical theology, and the Bible and film. He is the author of Social and Economic Life in Second Temple Judea (Westminster John Knox, 2014) and Wisdom in Transition: Act and Consequence in Second Temple Instructions (Brill, 2008). He is working on a commentary on the Jewish sage Ben Sira (Anchor Yale Bible) and editing a comprehensive introduction to wisdom literature. He is the editor of Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology.
O. Wesley Allen, Jr. (Ph.D., Emory University) is the Lois Craddock Professor of Homiletics at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. He has written widely about preaching and the Synoptic Gospels and preaching conversationally in postmodernity. Among his published books are Preaching in the Era of Trump (Chalice, 2017) and with Carrie La Ferle, Preaching and the Thirty Second Commercial: Lessons from Advertising for the Pulpit (Westminster John Knox, 2021). He is currently working on a major commentary on Mark for Westminster John Knox. Wes is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church.
Love Lazarus Sechrest (Ph.D., Duke University) is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Professor of Theology, and founding Ombud at Mount St. Mary's University, Emmitsburg, Maryland. A womanist biblical theologian, she is the author of Race and Rhyme: Rereading the New Testament (Eerdmans, 2022); A Former Jew: Paul and the Dialectics of Race (T & T Clark, 2010), and lead editor of Can "White" People be Saved? Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission (IVP Academic, 2018). A layperson in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, she is a Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary board member.
Stephen L. Young (Ph.D., Brown University) is Lecturer in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. He focuses on ancient Greek and Roman mythology, history, and philosophy, in addition to biblical literature, ancient Judaism, and early Christianity. He is the author of Paul Among the Mythmakers: Gods, Sins, and Scriptures for the Studies in Religion in Antiquity series (forthcoming, University of Edinburgh Press).
