Allison Bryan, is a graduate student at Memorial University in Newfoundland. She is pursuing her Masters Degree in Sociology, studying the co-management of natural resources and how models of consensus building can help mitigate various forms of conflict. She holds a BA from the University of Guelph where she majored in International Development and minored in Philosophy. Most recently, Allison worked for the Canadian national youth organization Katimavik which helps foster youth development and community capacity building. Allison has worked and traveled abroad to such places as Mali, Burkina Faso, India and parts of Western Europe. She has a keen interest in religion and, by God’s grace, her exploration of various belief systems led her to know a personal relationship with God.

Barry W. Bussey, is a native of Newfoundland, Canada. He has two undergraduate degrees (B.A. in Theology and LL.B. in Law); two master degrees (M.A. in Political Science, and LL.M. in Constitutional Law); and is currently studying for his PhD in Law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University (Toronto). Barry served as pastor for two churches in Newfoundland. He has been legal advisor for the Seventh-day Adventist Church since 1996. He enjoys doing things out of the ordinary including running as a candidate in the 2000 federal election. His wife says he’s not boring to live with and is always up to something. Barry is the husband of but one wife (of almost 22 years), LaVonna and they have three children, Carmelle (age 19), twin boys Adam, and Seth (age 17). Carmelle wants to be a lawyer like Dad but his boys say, “No way – Dad reads too much!”

Lt(N) Retired Olaf P. Clausen, CD, BGS, is Pastor of the Lethbridge Seventh-day Adventist Church. After graduating from high school, he entered the Canadian Armed Forces Officer Corp as a Naval Officer, with 12 years of distinguished service. He served as an Operations and Weapons Officer with a short stint in Naval Intelligence, concluding his career as a Military Career Counsellor and regional trainer of selection interviewers and recruiters. After giving his life to Christ, he taught a variety of subjects in Academy high school for 10 years, having many opportunities to counsel youth regarding joining any armed service. Pastor Clausen has a passion for Christ that will inspire all to join His army.

Jeff Crocombe, an Australian currently working as a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Theology at Helderberg College in South Africa, teaching principally in the area of church history. He has a BA (Theology) from Avondale College and postgraduate qualifications from Monash University and the University of Queensland. He has a particular interest in the history of the Millerite movement and the Seventh-day Adventist Church and is currently completing a PhD on William Miller at the University of Queensland. He blogs on SDA history and culture at: http://h0bbes.wordpress.com/ Jeff is married to Ruth and has a one year-old daughter, Araminta. When not working you are likely to find him in the wild looking for birds.

Ginger Hanks Harwood, PhD, holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Sociology with an emphasis on history from California State University system, and a Ph.D. in Theological and Religious studies offered jointly by the University of Denver and the Iliff school of Theology. While finishing her course work at Iliff/DU. She was employed at Denver Memorial Seventh-day Adventist Hospital by the Chaplain’s Department to serve as a full time chaplain, where her assignment was to supervise the clinical ministry experience for students from three local seminaries. In 1990, She left Chaplaincy for university teaching, where she has served since. Currently, she teaches religious studies, ethics, Adventist history and gender and religion at La Sierra University. Her prime areas of research focus around the issues that appeared in the nineteenth century Review and Herald : defining an appropriate relationship of Adventists to the government, to the poor and marginalized, or even oppressed, the role and positions of men and women in church, home and society. She has published several articles on Adventist history.

Ronald Lawson, was born and educated in Australia, where he earned a Ph.D. in sociology and history at the University of Queensland in 1970 and was one of the founders of QUSDAS, the Queensland University Seventh-day Adventist Society, in 1962. After two years post-doctoral study at Columbia University in New York, he joined the City University of New York, first in Hunter College and then, for the past 32 years, in Queens College. He is Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College, CUNY, a rank he has held since 1984. He has published Brisbane in the 1890s: An Australian Urban Society (University of Queensland Press, 1973, 1987) and The Tenant Movement in New York, 1904-1984 (Rutgers University Press, 1986), and dozens of articles. Since 1984 he has been engaged in a massive study of global Seventh-day Adventism, which has taken him to 59 countires where he has interviewed about 3,500 Adventist pastors, administrators, teachers, students, and laity. His three books based on this research are now being prepared for publication. He teaches courses on research methods, religious movements (where his work on Adventism is highlighted), religion and politics, protest movements, and housing and landlord-tenant politics. His article, "Onward Christian Soldiers?: Seventh-day Adventists and the Issue of Military Service." was published in the Review of Religious Research, 37:3, March 1996: 97-122. Ron has been president of the Metro New York Adventist Forum since 1974. Ron has also had a second career as a church musician (organist, choir director, singer), which ahs taken him to church on both Sabbath and Sunday for most of his life.

Douglas Morgan, PhD, is professor of history and political studies at Columbia Union College in Takoma Park, Maryland, where he has served since 1994. He is author of Adventism and the American Republic: The Public Impact of a Major Apocalyptic Movement (University of Tennessee Press, 2001), and editor of The Peacemaking Remnant, a collection of essays and historical documents published by the Adventist Peace Fellowship in 2005. A graduate of Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska, he earned a Ph.D. in the history of Christianity at the University of Chicago in 1992, studying under Martin E. Marty. He is a co-founder of the Adventist Peace Fellowship and serves as secretary of the Sabbath in Africa Study Group, headed by Charles E. Bradford.

Ronald E. Osborn, is the Bannerman Fellow of the Politics and International Relations Program at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles. He is a PhD candidate in Politics and International Relations at University of Southern California. He received his MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 2005 and an MA in Liberal Arts from the Graduate Institute of St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, in 2002. His BA in History and BA in English from Atlantic Union College, Lancaster, Massachusetts, was received in 1999. He has had a number of writings published in a number of periodicals including: Spectrum Magazine, Journal of Law and Religion, and Review of International Studies (forthcoming, 2009).

Karen R. Scott, was born in California but grew up in British Columbia, Canada. She graduated from Walla Walla College (B.Sc.) and from the University of British Columbia (LL.B.), after which she practiced law for about eight years. She argued a religious liberty case before the Supreme Court of Canada. The Court decided unanimously in her client’s favor and the case continues as the precedent in Canada for work-place religious and disability accommodation. While in Canada, Karen served on the North American Division’s Women’s Commission, was Director of Women’s Ministries in Canada and was the founder of and much beloved Director of Women’s Ministries for the British Columbia Conference. In 1995 she returned to California serving as the liaison between the Pacific Union Conference and the California Legislature where she monitored religious liberty and private education legislation. In 1997 she became a member of the State Bar of California. Later she was In House Counsel for Educational Media Foundation, the parent corporation of the K-LOVE and Air 1 Radio networks. Currently she is the Chaplain at Wheatland Retirement Village in Walla Walla, Washington and she is a Trustee of the Center for Liberty of Conscience, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public on the Biblical and historical basis of liberty of conscience. Karen co-produced Roger Williams: Freedom’s Forgotten Hero, a documentary on the life of Roger Williams, Founder of Rhode Island. The film aired on a PBS station as part of the 2003 Fourth of July celebrations. Karen regularly speaks at teachers’ conventions, women’s ministry retreats, churches, lawyers’ associations, atheist groups, high schools, colleges and other functions and events.

Lincoln E. Steed, is the editor of Liberty magazine, a 200,000 circulation religious liberty journal which is distributed to political leaders, judiciary, lawyers and other thought leaders in North America and, through the International Religious liberty Association, to a larger international audience. Begun 100 years ago by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the magazine argues for the rights of faith and practice for all. He came to the job with extensive periodical and book editing experience. At Pacific Press, Review and Herald, and Signs Publishing in Australia he was book editor, house editor for Sabbath School quarterlies, textbook editor and editor of Listen and Winner magazines. The editing of the temperance journals gave him considerable experience in working with government contacts and educators from most major denominations. He has long maintained that our religious liberties and our good relationship with society at large are inextricably entwined. Lincoln was born in Australia and began his education in his homeland of Australia, continuing his studies at Columbia Union College, Takoma Park, Maryland, and gaining a postgraduate degree at Andrews University. He is the author of the book "The Last Mountain" and numerous periodical articles. He has traveled extensively promoting temperance and religious liberty issues: recent trips have been to Laos, Mynamar, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Ambon, Indonesia, scene of violent religious conflict. While Associate Director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty for the North American Division of the General Conference, he lives in Hagerstown, MD, with his wife Rosa Delia and two children, Christopher and Kristen.

Joel Willett, served as a military police officer in the U.S. Army for almost four years from 2002 -2006. He became a committed Seventh-day Adventist during this time and subsequently struggled with conscientious objection. He has presented at numerous evangelistic series and the Lord opened the door for him to leave the Army and serve as a missionary at the Adventist seminary in Zaoksky, Russia. His passion for international relations was piqued during this time and God provided him an opportunity to live out his faith in the world of diplomacy. He just returned from a summer in the Law Enforcement Section of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. He is a candidate for an M.A. in Diplomacy and National Security at the University of Kentucky. Just 24 years old and he was born and raised in Louisville, Ky. He has been involved in youth ministry for two churches in the Louisville area over the past 3 years.

Jose E. McLaughlin, M.Div., is a field representative for Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries (ACM) a department of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. ACM is comprised of trained chaplains from diverse backgrounds who are committed to Jesus Christ and the global mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. These men and women desire to help people in the settings where they minister prepare for the coming of Christ. Through the ministry of these chaplains ACM recognizes and responds to the needs of persons within their unique institutional/organizational settings, including corrections, education, healthcare, military, police and others. An incarnational ministry of presence is offered to all persons in need.

Chaplain McLaughlin has served as a Field Representative for ACM since March of 2001. A graduate of Atlantic Union College and Andrews University, Jose began his ministry with the Greater New York Conference. As the first Hispanic Seventh-day Adventist Naval Chaplain Jose served both with Marines and the Navy. His last military assignment was with the First Marine Division as the Division’s Operations and Training Chaplain. Following his retirement from the Navy Jose worked as a healthcare chaplain prior to coming to ACM. Among his responsibilities is that of acting as a liaison between the church and its members in the military. For Jose working with ACM has been a dream come true. “I count it a privilege to do “what I love”: being able to share the Good News of the Gospel, whether that is to recruits, church members, academy students, chaplains, pastors, administrators or others that may be in crisis. It is important that they know that the battle has been won. Jose can be contacted at josemclaughlin@ca.rr.com or at jose.mclaughlin@nad.adventist.org

Karl Tsatalbasidis, has been serving the Lord as a pastor in the Michigan Conference since 1993. He is currently pastoring the Buchanan Seventh-day Adventist Church while pursuing doctoral studies in systematic theology at Andrews University. His area of interest is hermeneutics and theological method.

Keith Phillips, is a native of Michigan who joined the Military when he had just turned 18. After spending 7 years in the army he returned to civilian life and went to work for Diesel Technology, a former part of General Motors. While there he was introduced to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and became so excited about this great discovery that he purposed to serve the Lord. Shortly after his baptism he went to work as a Colporteur in Northern Indiana. After a year in the literature work he was accepted at Andrews University and upon graduation he was picked up by the Michigan Conference where he currently serves as a Pastor.