A former Master of the world-wide Dominican Order, Timothy Radcliffe is now based in Oxford but spends much of his year giving retreats, lectures and conference key-note addresses in the UK and overseas. He was the winner of the 2007 Michael Ramsey prize for theological writing for his book What is the Point of Being a Christian?.

He was the author of The Archbishop of Canterbury's 2009 Lent Book Why Go to Church? His other books include Alive in God, Take the Plunge and I Call You Friends, all published by Bloomsbury Continuum.

Malcolm Guite, a poet, theologian, and song-writer, is the Chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge where he also teaches for the Divinity Faculty.

He lectures widely in England and North America on theology and literature. He has published poetry, theology, and literary criticism, and worked as a librettist.

He is married with two children. Living in Cambridge allows him to indulge his passions for old books, old pubs and live music. He also enjoys sailing, walking, and all the varieties of the English countryside and weather.

David Scott is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the History of Parliament Trust and has formerly taught at both York and Yale Universities.

His previous book (for Palgrave) 'Politics and War in the Three Stuart Kingdoms 1637-49' was chosen by the Sunday Telegraph as one of its Books of the Year in 2004.

N. T. Wright is the former bishop of Durham in the Church of England and one of the world's leading Bible scholars. He is now serving as the Chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews.

For twenty years he taught New Testament studies at Cambridge, McGill, and Oxford Universities, and he has been featured on ABC News, Dateline, The Colbert Report, and Fresh Air. Wright is the award-winning author of Surprised by Scripture, The Case for the Psalms, How God Became King, Simply Jesus, After You Believe, Surprised by Hope, Simply Christian, Scripture and the Authority of God, The Meaning of Jesus (coauthored with Marcus Borg), as well as being the translator for The Kingdom New Testament.