Editor/publisher
John M. Buchanan

Executive editor
David Heim

Senior editors
Debra Bendis
Richard A. Kauffman

Assistant editor/Web editor
Steve Thorngate

News editor
John Dart

Senior contributing editor
James M. Wall

Special correspondent
Amy Frykholm

Contributing editors
Martin E. Marty
James M. Wall
Dean Peerman
Trudy Bush
Jason Byassee

Poetry editor
Jill Peláez Baumgaertner

Editorial assistant
Christine Foust

Advertising manager
Heidi Baumgaertner

Art director
Daniel C. Richardson

Production assistant
Diane Tinsley

Comptroller
Maureen C. Gavin

Business assistant
Safiya Edwards

Marketing consultant
Shanley & Associates

Editors at large
Edith L. Blumhofer, Roberta Bondi, Walter Brueggemann, Ellen Charry, William F. Fore, Beverly R. Gaventa, L. Gregory Jones, Belden C. Lane, Leo Lefebure, Robin W. Lovin, Jean Caffey Lyles, Bill McKibben, Kathleen Norris, Douglas Ottati, Lamin Sanneh, Donald Shriver, Max L. Stackhouse, Barbara Brown Taylor, Miroslav Volf, William H. Willimon, Walter Wink, Ralph C. Wood, Carol Zaleski

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