Contributors

Edwin Arrison is a H.O.P.E. Africa chaplain working in South Africa.

Bruce Campbell is a media editor for The Witness. He lives in Tarrytown, N.Y.

Bernard Evans is Virgil Michel Ecumenical Chair of Rural Social Ministries at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn.

Eleazar S. Fernandez is a theology professor at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities in New Brighton, Minn. A native of the Philippines, Fernandez is the author of Toward a Theology of Struggle (Orbis Books, 1994) and co-editor of A Dream Unfinished: Theological Reflections on America from the Margins (Orbis Books, 2000).

Michael Hopkins, a Witness contributing editor, is rector of St. George’s Episcopal Church in Glenn Dale, Md. and president of Integrity, an organization serving LGBT Episcopalians.

Brian A. Rusche is executive director of Minnesota’s Joint Religious Legislative Coalition (JRLC). For 32 years, Minnesota’s largest faith communities have worked through the JRLC to help pass model legislation on welfare reform, tax fairness, hate crimes, gun safety, affordable housing, criminal justice, regional planning, health care access, ethics in government and human rights.

Wy Spano is co-author of Minnesota Politics and Government and founding co-editor of the newsletter Politics in Minnesota. He also coordinates the Masters Program in Advocacy and Political Leadership at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.

Robert V. Taylor is dean of St. Mark’s Cathedral in Seattle, Wash.

Winnie Varghese, a Witness contributing editor, is the Episcopal chaplain at Columbia University in New York City.

Rima Vesely, a Witness contributing editor, lives in Oakland, Calif. In addition to selecting poetry for The Witness, she writes on issues of racism, immigration and incarceration.

Joseph Wakelee-Lynch, a Witness contributing editor, is a writer and editor in Berkeley, Calif.

Contributing editors

Michael Battle -- Jon Bruno -- Bruce Campbell -- Janet Chisholm -- L. William Countryman

Louie Crew -- Richard Gillett -- Michael Hopkins -- Samia Khoury -- Virginia Mollenkott

Irene Monroe -- Susi Moser -- Jennifer Phillips -- Michael Schut -- Peter Selby -- Katie Sherrod

Richard Shimpfky -- Winnie Varghese -- Rima Vesely -- Joseph Wakelee-Lynch -- Richard Witt

Bill Wylie-Kellermann -- Jeanie Wylie-Kellermann (Editor emerita)