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Elizabeth M. Bounds
Dr. Bounds is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Candler Theological Seminary of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her research interests include the communal dimensions of church and civil society, feminist and liberation ethics, the public voice of religion, and transformative pedagogical practices. She is author of Coming Together/Coming Apart: Religion, Modernity, and Community.

She has her bachelor degree from Harvard University, a BA/MA from Cambridge University and her Masters of Divinity and Ph.D. from Union Seminary in New York.

James F. Childress
Dr. Childress is the John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics and Professor of Medical Education at the University of Virginia, where he directs the Institute for Practical Ethics. He served as Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, 1972-1975 and 1986-1994, as Principal of the University of Virginia's Monroe Hill College from 1988 to 1991, and as co-director of the Virginia Health Policy Center 1991-1999. In 1990 he was named Professor of the Year in the state of Virginia by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. In 2002 he received the Thomas Jefferson Award, the highest recognition accorded by the University of Virginia.

He is the author of numerous articles and several books in ethics, including Civil Disobedience and Political Obligation; Moral Reasoning in Conflicts; Principles of Biomedical Ethics; Priorities in Biomedical Ethics; Who Should Decide? Paternalism in Health Care; and Practical Reasoning in Bioethics. He also co-authored Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Christian Ethics: Problems and Prospects. He received his B.A. from Guilford College, his B.D. from Yale Divinity School, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.

Beverly Mitchell
Dr. Mitchell is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. She teaches courses in church history, theology, African American religious history, and human rights.

She graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in sociology and worked in various capacities with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service. Dr. Mitchell graduated from Wesley Theological Seminary with an M.T.S. and then earned a Ph.D. in systematic theology from Boston College-Andover Newton Theological School.

Gerald F. Powers
Gerard Powers is director of the Office of International Justice and Peace of the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference. From 1987-1998, he was a foreign policy advisor in the same office, specializing in European affairs, religious liberty, and the ethics of the use of force. Mr. Powers has a J.D. and M.A. in theology from the University of Notre Dame, and a B.A. from Princeton University.

He has been an adjunct faculty member at the National Law Center of George Washington University (course on international law, ethics and conflict) and the Oblate School of Theology (course on Catholic social teaching). Recent articles have examined the ethics of the use of force in Iraq, nuclear weapons, humanitarian intervention, and economic sanctions. He has also written on religion and U.S. foreign policy, the right to self-determination, and the role of religion in the conflicts in Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina. He is co-editor of Peacemaking: Moral and Policy Challenges for a New World (1994).

Max L. Stackhouse
Dr. Stackhouse is the Stephen Colwell Professor of Christian Ethics, Princeton Theological Seminary. He has a Bachelors degree from DePauw University, a M.Div and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He served as the H.Gezork Professor, Christian Social Ethics, Andover Newton Theological School. Dr. Stackhouse is a minister in the United Church of Christ.

He is the author or editor of numerous books and articles including:
God and Globalization (three volumes); Covenant & Commitments: Faith, Family & Economic Life; On Moral Business; Christian Social Ethics in a Global Era; Public Theology and Political Economy; Creeds, Society, and Human Rights; Capitalism, Civil Society, Religion and the Poor.

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