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E.J. Dionne is a senior research fellow at the Berkley Center, University Professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture teaching in Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy and Government Department, and a leading scholar and commentator on religion in U.S. politics. In addition, since fall 2017 he has been William H. Bloomberg Visiting Professor at Harvard Divinity School and the Harvard Kennedy School. The W. Averell Harriman Chair and senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution, Dionne writes a column for the Washington Post that is syndicated in over 200 outlets nationally and abroad. His books include One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported (2017, with Norman J. Ornstein and Thomas E. Mann); Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism: From Goldwater to Trump and Beyond (2016); Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent (2012); Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right (2008); Stand Up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge (2004); They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate The Next Political Era (1996); and Why Americans Hate Politics (1991), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award nominee.

Ted Olsen has served in various roles at Christianity Today, from one of the world's first religion bloggers, news editor, managing editor, and editor of The Behemoth (a magazine devoted to awe and wonder). He now serves as the magazine's editorial director, overseeing all of the day-to-day operations for Christianity Today's magazine and website.

Melissa Rogers is executive director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships under the Biden administration, a post she also held in the Obama administration. She previously served as a nonresident senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution. Rogers is the author of Faith in American Public Life (2019).

Rev. Adam R. Taylor is the president of Sojourners and author of Mobilizing Hope: Faith-Inspired Activism for a Post Civil Rights Generation (2010). Taylor previously led the Faith Initiative at the World Bank Group and served as the vice president of advocacy at World Vision U.S. and as the senior political director at Sojourners.