Bishop T.D. Jakes is the pastor of The Potter's House, a 30,000 member nondenominational church in Dallas, Texas.

Eboo Patel is founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international nonprofit that promotes interfaith cooperation. His blog, The Faith Divide, explores what drives faiths apart and what brings them together. He is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. An American Muslim of Indian heritage, Eboo has a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. He is on the Religious Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation and the Advisory Board of Duke University's Islamic Studies Center. Eboo is an Ashoka Fellow, part of a select network of social entrepreneurs with ideas that could change the world.

"On Faith" panelist Pamela K. Taylor is co-founder of Muslims for Progressive Values and director of the Islamic Writers Alliance. She is a member of the national board of advisors to the Network of Spiritual Progressives, and served as co-chair of the Progressive Muslim Union for two years. Taylor is a strong supporter of the woman imam movement, which seeks the full participation of Muslim women in every aspect of life, including the pulpit. In July 2005, she became the first woman in centuries to officiate Friday prayers in a mosque when the United Muslim Association of Toronto and the Muslim Canadian Congress invited her to serve as guest imam. (This event followed a number of services, sermons and prayer sessions led by women held in private venues because no mosque agreed to host them.) In February 2006, when the former Grand Mufti of Marseilles visited Toronto, he requested that Taylor lead him in congregational prayer as an unequivocal demonstration of his support for female imams. Taylor has also been active in interfaith dialogue for 20 years, both in local initiatives and speaking at numerous conferences, universities, and churches. She received her MTS from Harvard Divinity School, and writes regularly on spiritual matters and the Islamic faith. She has essays in Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions (2006) and the forthcoming The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics (2007). She has written hundreds of articles and opinion pieces for newspapers, magazines, and journals, and is an award winning poet.

The Reverend James Alexander Forbes Jr. has been Senior Minister of The Riverside Church, an interdenominational, interracial, and international congregation in New York, since 1989. The “"On Faith”" panelist also hosts "The Time Is Now" on Air America Radio. Prior to his appointment as Riverside’'s first African-American senior minister, Forbes served as the Brown and Sockman Associate Professor of Preaching at New York’s Union Theological Seminary (1976-1985) and the seminary'’s first Joe R. Engle Professor of Preaching (1985-1989). When he accepted the pastorate at Riverside, Union named him the first Harry Emerson Fosdick Adjunct Professor of Preaching. Forbes also serves on the Core Teaching Staff at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York. Known as the preacher's preacher because of his extensive preaching career and charismatic style, Forbes was named one of the 12 "most effective preachers" in the English-speaking world in 1996 by Newsweek. Ebony twice designated him one of America's greatest black preachers--in 1984 and 1993. Forbes has earned three degrees, including a doctorate of ministry from Colgate-Rochester Divinity School in Rochester (1975); a master’'s of divinity from Union Theological Seminary, and a bachelor’'s of science from Howard University (1957). He has been awarded 13 honorary degrees. Since 1992 he has co-chaired A Partnership of Faith, an interfaith organization of clergy among New York's Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim communities. In 2004, Forbes keynoted most of the Let Justice Roll tour sponsored by the National Council of Churches of Christ, which promoted the prophetic principles in 15-20 cities across the nation. In August of that year, he addressed the Democratic National Convention. Built by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1927, Riverside is a 2,400-member church affiliated with the American Baptist Churches and the United Church of Christ. Forbes, who is its fifth senior minister, is an ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches and the Original United Holy Church of America.