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KELEFA SANNEH is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a contributor to “CBS Sunday Morning.” He is also the author of Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres (Canongate, 2021). He lives in New York City withhis family.

JOEL A. CARPENTER has a PhD from John Hopkins University, USA, and is professor and provost emeritus of Calvin University in Grand Rapids, USA, where he was also the founding director of the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity. His current work includes consulting on research and faculty development projects in world Christianity, chairing the board of Langham Partnership USA, and editing a book series, Studies in World Christianity, with Baylor University Press. His most recent publications include are Christianity and Social Change in Contemporary Africa (Langaa, 2020), co-edited with Francis Nyamnjoh.

PROFESSOR LAMIN SANNEH did his PhD in Islamic history at the University of London. Prior to his appointment at Yale University as the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity, with a concurrent appointment as Professor of History at Yale College, he was a professor at Harvard University for eight years. Prof. Sanneh is an Honorary Research Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London, and is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He serves on the editorial board of several academic journals and has published numerous article and books including his most recent, Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity.

J. KWABENA ASAMOAH-GYADU, PhD, is the President of the Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Ghana. He is also the Seminary’s professor of contemporary African Christianity and Pentecostal theology. Prof. Asamoah-Gyadu is from Ghana, and has published widely on the intersection between contemporary expressions of Christianity and new trends in missiology in Africa.

RT. REV. ROWAN WILLIAMS was born in Wales and has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Oxford. He was the bishop of Monmouth in Wales before becoimg archbishop of Canterbury in 2002, and then master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, from 2013 to 2020. He now lives in Cardiff. He has written widely on theology and culture, and is the author of Christ the Heart of Creation (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2018) and many other books.

DANIEL A. MADIGAN, SJ, is Jeanette W. and Otto J. Ruesch Family associate professor and director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, senior fellow of the Al-Waleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, and faculty fellow of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown University. He is also an honorary professorial fellow of Australian Catholic University. He is the author of The Qur’ân’s Self-Image: Writing and Authority in Islam’s Scripture (Princeton University Press, 2001) and a co-editor of The Routledge Companion to the Qur’an (Routledge, 2021).

DAVID MARSHALL has a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK, and is theacademic director of the Building Bridges Seminar at Georgetown University,USA, guest editor of Islamochristiana, the journal of the Pontifical Institutefor Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI), and assistant chaplain of St. Ursula’sChurch, Bern, Switzerland. He has taught at many universities and seminariesincluding St Paul’s, Limuru, Kenya, the University of Edinburgh, and DukeDivinity School. He is the author of God, Muhammad and the Unbelievers: A Qur’anic Study (Routledge, 1999).

REV. DR. F. PETER FORD, JR. is an ordained missionary of the Reformed Church in America, having served for twenty-eight years in the Middle East and Africa. He received his PhD from Temple University (Philadelphia) in the field of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. Currently he is Senior Lecturer of the Programme in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at St. Paul’s University in Limuru, Kenya. Previously he taught ICMR in Ethiopia, at Mekane Yesus Seminary and the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology.

MARTIN ACCAD has a DPhil from the University of Oxford, UK. He is Chief Academic Officer at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary, Mansourieh, Lebanon, and Director of its Institute of Middle East Studies. He is also Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at ABTS and Affiliate Associate Professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, USA.

Ida Glaser is the International Academic Coordinator and Founding Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Muslim Christian Studies, where she oversees a number of international projects. She previously taught in the areas of Qur’an and Bible, and the history of Muslim-Christian dialogue at the University of Edinburgh, and her personal research interests focus on reading the Bible in the context of Islam. She is an associate staff member at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Ida has taught physics in Islamic contexts and done church-based outreach in multi-racial, inner-city Britain. She has worked among people of other faiths for Crosslinks, the Anglican Mission Agency, and is a past director of Faith to Faith, a Christian consultancy about other faiths. Her doctorate examined Genesis 1–11 in the context of parallel qur’anic material. She has taught Muslim-Christian relations at the post-graduate level in Jamaica, Nigeria, the Philippines and the UK.