Peter J. Thuesen is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis and co-editor of Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. From 2009 to 2015, he chaired Indiana University Indianapolis’ Department of Religious Studies. A historian of American religion and the Christian tradition, he is author, most recently, of Tornado God: American Religion and Violent Weather (Oxford, 2020), which received the 2021 Christianity Today Book Award for History/Biography. His current book project is The People’s Cardinal: Richard Cushing and the Age of Catholic Optimism.

Meghan Bowen is a PhD (Theology) candidate at Regis College (Toronto, ON). Her research seeks to reconsider St. Augustine’s theology of marriage within his socio-historical context as a means of advancing current theological discussions of marriage and of sexual ethics. Along with an MA in Theology, Meghan also holds an MA in Ethnomusicology. Beyond her academic work, Meghan is involved in music and liturgy, and has offered workshops on moral formation and the Christian life. Meghan is currently working as a research associate with the Religious Parenting in the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis project.

Tricia C. Bruce (PhD, University of California Santa Barbara) is a sociologist of religion whose books & major reports include Parish & Place, Polarization in the U.S. Catholic Church, Faithful Revolution, and How Americans Understand Abortion. Her work appears in The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Science Advances, and more, garnering awards from the Catholic Press Association, American Sociological Association Religion Section, and Religious Research Association. She is currently President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion; Consultor to the Vatican’s General Secretariat of the Synod; Director of Springtide Research Institute; and faculty fellow of USC’s Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies.

Michael Pasquier is the Jaak Seynaeve Professor of Christian Studies and Professor of Religious Studies and History at Louisiana State University. He served as President of the American Catholic Historical Association in 2023. He is the author of Religion in America: The Basics and Fathers on the Frontier: French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870. He’s also the editor of the book Gods of the Mississippi and producer of the documentary film Water Like Stone. Dr. Pasquier’s scholarship has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Susan K. Wood is Professor of Systemic Theology at Regis College in the Toronto School of Theology, Canada. She received her doctorate in systematic theology from Marquette University. Very active in ecumenical work, she serves on the U.S. Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue (1994-2019), the North American Roman Catholic-Orthodox Theological Consultation (2005-present), the International Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue (2008-2019), and the conversation between the Baptist World Alliance and the Roman Catholic Church (2006-2010, 2017-2022). She serves on the editorial advisory board of the journal Ecclesiology and the Toronto Journal of Theology. Most of her writing explores the connections between ecclesiology and sacramental theology.