Richard J. Mouw has served as president of Fuller Theological Seminary since 1993, after four years as provost and senior vice president. A philosopher, scholar, and author, the “On Faith” panelist has been recognized as an important voice among reform-oriented evangelicals. Mouw, who earned a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Chicago, has a broad record of publication with 16 books, including Consulting the Faithful, and Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport and his articles have appeared in more than 50 journals and magazines. Currently he serves on the editorial board of Books and Culture as is a regular columnist on “Beliefnet.” Mouw has served on many councils and boards, including the Commission on Accreditation for the Association of Theological Schools (as chair) and the Council on Civil Society. He currently serves on advisory boards for Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, the International Justice Mission, and the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy.

The Rev. Gabriel Salguero is the director of the Hispanic/Latino Leadership Program at Princeton Theological Seminary’s Center of Continuing Education. The "On Faith" panelist received his M.Div. from New Brunswick Theological Seminary and is a Ph.D. candidate in Christian social ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He and his wife, Jeanette, co-pastor the multicultural Lamb’s Church of the Nazarene in New York City. He serves on the board of Sojourners and is a member of the Latino Leadership Circle. Gabriel has been called one of the emerging voices of Latino evangelicals. He also serves as a member of the Equal Employment Advisory Commission for the state of New Jersey. Salguero has a two-year-old son and enjoys basketball and reading.

An ordained United Church of Christ and American Baptist minister, "On Faith" panelist Dr. Willis E. Elliott has been a pastor, teacher, lecturer, administrator, consultant (to Newsweek for 38 years), church executive, and the author of six books. His five earned degrees in religion include a PhD, University of Chicago, where he was divinity research librarian. He taught in colleges, seminaries, & universities--including the University of Hawaii, where he taught "The World's Great Religions" and "Religion and the Meaning of Existence." At the 1966 Triennium of the National Council of Churches, he was the interlocutor with Billy Graham.

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels is founding co-director with her husband Peter Steinfels of Fordham University 's Center on Religion and Culture, which is dedicated to fostering dialogue on challenges posed to contemporary culture by religious faith. The "On Faith" panelist, who is Fordham's journalist-in-residence, was editor of Commonweal , an independent biweekly journal of Catholic political, religious and literary opinion for 15 years. She also co-directed "American Catholics in the Public Square," a three-year Commonweal Foundation project funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Steinfels has written about a variety of subjects ranging from the politics of Serbia to the politics of the Saatchi Collection. She has published articles on childcare, family issues, bioethics, religion and politics, and foreign and domestic policy. She is the author of Who's Minding the Children? The History and Politics of Day Care in America (1974).