is Professor Emeritus at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris. In addition to his acclaimed scholarship, Dr. West is a tireless activist who has contributed to numerous social movements. His many books include Race Matters (Beacon Press, 2001) and Democracy Matters (2004).

President Jimmy Carter is the 39th President of the United States and founder of the Carter Center. Following his presidency, Carter established himself as one of the world’s premiere humanitarians. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

is the daughter of Abraham and Sylvia Heschel. She is the Eli Black professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of numerous articles and her published works include Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust, and Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays of Abraham Joshua Heschel.

is a former congressman, mayor of Atlanta, and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. After graduating from Howard University and Hartford Theological Seminary, Young worked alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Civil Rights Movement and helped draft both the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. He is the author of An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America (Harper Collins, 1996).

is an author, cultural critic and commentator. A New York Times columnist, he appears regularly on PBS NewsHour, NPR’s All Things Considered, and NBC’s Meet the Press. He teaches at Yale University and is the author of the critically acclaimed The Road to Character (Random House, 2015).

is a writer and retired book publisher. The daughter of Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr, she is the author of The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War (W. W. Norton, 2003); co-author with her late husband, Fritz Stern, of No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State (New York Review Books, 2013), and editor of the Library of America’s Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics (2015).

is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at Duke University Divinity School. Widely recognized as one of the most influential thinkers in theological ethics, Hauerwas delivered the Gifford Lectures in 2000 and was named “America’s Best Theologian” by Time Magazine in 2001. Hauerwas is the author of With the Grain of the Universe: The Church’s Witness and Natural Theology (Brazos Press, 2003).

was educated at the University of Detroit, the University of Chicago and Harvard. Fr. Massa has taught at Fordham University, served as Dean of Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry, and currently directs the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. His award-winning book, Catholics and American Culture (Crossroad, 2005), used Niebuhr’s concept of irony as a lens through which to examine 20th century American Catholicism.

is a lecturer on American Religious History at Harvard Divinity School and served as a consultant on An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story. The president of the Niebuhr Society, she is the author of A Bad Kind of Magic: The Niebuhr Brothers on ‘Utilitarian Christianity’ and the Defense of Democracy (Harvard Theological Review, January 2014). Her upcoming book is on the “prophetic pluralism” of the Niebuhr brothers.

is the John Witherspoon Professor Emeritus of Christian Ethics at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. During his studies at Union Theological Seminary, Dr. Stone had the distinction of serving as Niebuhr’s final graduate assistant. He is the author of Faith and Politics: Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich at Union Seminary in New York (Mercer University Press, 2012).

is a senior research fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey, and is the Cary Maguire University Professor of Ethics Emeritus at Southern Methodist University. An expert on Niebuhr’s life and thought, Dr. Lovin is the author of Reinhold Niebuhr and Christian Realism (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and Christian Realism and the New Realities (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. An Episcopal priest, he is the author of 17 books and his most recent work, The New Abolition: WEB DuBois and the Black Social Gospel recently won the Grawemeyer Award.

is a nationally recognized historian with a focus on International Relations. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and Professor Emeritus at Boston University. His latest book is American’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History (Random House, 2016).

is the dean of the Honors College at Boise State, Associate Professor in the Department of History, and a producer of An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story. He co-directed the Worlds of Billy Graham project and is the author of the award-winning book Original Sin and Everyday Protestants (University of North Carolina, 2009).