Gerald Biesecker-Mast is Associate Professor of Communication at Bluffton College, Bluffton, Ohio. He is a graduate of Malone College and received his Ph.D. in rhetoric and communication from the University of Pittsburgh in 1995. He has published numerous articles on Anabaptist-Mennonite persuasion and is the co-editor of two volumes of essays: Anabaptists and Postmodernity (Pandora Press U.S., 2000) and Teaching Peace: Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts (Rowan and Littlefield, 2003). Peter C. Blum is Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Thought at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, where he has taught since 1992. Originally from Ohio, he received his B.A. from Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana in 1985 and holds graduate degrees in sociology and philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of several recent and forthcoming essays on contemporary social theory and Anabaptist thought. Paul Doerksen teaches Christian Studies and history at Mennonite Brethren Collegiate in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He received his Master of Theological Studies from Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ontario and is in a Ph.D. program at McMaster University, Waterloo, Ontario. He and his wife Julie, a choral conductor, are the parents of three daughters—Cecely, Hannah, and Greta. Alain Epp Weaver lives in East Jerusalem where he directs the relief, development and peacebuilding work of Mennonite Central Committee in Palestine/Israel. In addition to co-authoring a history of Mennonite Central Committee’s work with Palestinians and editing a Festschrift for Mennonite theologian Gordon Kaufman, Alain has published articles in such journals as The Review of Politics, the Journal of Religious Ethics, the Mennonite Quarterly Review, and Christian Century. Thomas Finger is an independent scholar living in Evanston, Illinois, where he is adjunct professor at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion and Systematic Theology from Claremont Graduate School in 1975. During 2002 Finger was a Fellow of the Young Center for the Study of Anabaptist and Pietist Groups at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. His most recent publication is A Constructive Theology in Anabaptist Perspective: biblical, Historical, Contemporary (InterVarsity Press, forthcoming). He has published in numerous journals such as The Mennonite Quarterly Review, Ecumenical Trends and Perspectives in Religious Studies, and has long been active in national and international ecumenical circles. Duane K. Friesen is Professor of Bible and Religion at Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas. He also is on the faculty of Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary: Great Plains, in Kansas. Friesen is a graduate of Bethel College and Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana, and received his Th.D. in Social Ethics from Harvard Divinity School in 1972. He is the author of numerous articles and several books, most recently of Artists, Citizens, Philosophers: Seeking the Peace of the City (Herald Press, 2000). Douglas Harink is Associate Professor of Theology at The King’s University College in Edmonton, Alberta. He recently served as president of the Canadian Theological Society and of the Canadian Evangelical Theological Association. Harink is the author of several journal articles and, most recently, Paul Among the Postliberals: Pauline Theology Beyond Christendom and Modernity (Brazos Press, 2003). He is currently writing a theological commentary on 1 and 2 Peter for Brazos Press. Thomas Heilke is Interim Associate Dean of International Programs and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas, where he teaches classes on the history of political philosophy, politics and religion, and international relations. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1990. He is the author or editor of numerous books, articles, and chapters on a variety of topics, including Anabaptist political thought. Craig R. Hovey is at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, England, where he is a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of various articles and reviews. Chris K. Huebner is Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics at Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, Manitoba . He has published several journal articles on the theological intersection of knowledge and politics, most recently, "Globalization, Theory and Dialogical Vulnerability: John Howard Yoder and the Possibility of a Pacifist Epistemology," Mennonite Quarterly Review 76:1 (2002): 49-62. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 2002. Harry Huebner is Vice President and Academic Dean at Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada where he is also Professor of Philosophy and Theology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto, in 1981. Huebner is co-author with David Schroeder of Church as Parable: Whatever Happened to Ethics? (CMBC Publications, 1993), the editor of several volumes, and author of several journal articles. A. James Reimer teaches theology at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, Ontario, and Toronto School of Theology (TST), University of Toronto. He is Director of Toronto Mennonite Theological Center, a graduate teaching and research center at TST, and is active in teaching and preaching within the Mennonite community. Reimer has written many articles and a number of books, the most recent being Mennonites and Classical Theology: Dogmatic Foundations for Christian Ethics (Pandora, 2001), and The Dogmatic Imagination: The Dynamics of Christian Faith (Herald, 2003). Rachel Reesor-Taylor is Assistant Professor of Religion at Bluffton College, Bluffton, Ohio. She received an M.A. from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, and is still working to complete her Ph.D. from McGill. Before arriving in Bluffton, she spent one semester at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary as the recipient of the Women’s Lectureship Stipend, and taught at Queen’s Theological College, Kingston, Ontario. She has prepared numerous papers for conferences and/or publication on the topics of atonement, Anselm and contemporary Mennonite theology. Gerald W. Schlabach is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. He has also taught at Bluffton College in Ohio and served in Central America with Mennonite Central Committee. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 1996. His most recent book is For the Joy Set Before Us: Augustine and Self-Denying Love. J. Alexander Sider is a theology and ethics doctoral candidate in the Graduate Program in Religion at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. He is a graduate of Messiah College, Grantham, Pennsylvania, and Duke University Divinity School. Willard Swartley is professor of New Testament at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary where he also served as director of the Institute of Mennonite Studies. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary (1973). Swartley is New Testament editor of the Believers Church Bible Commentary Series. He has edited numerous books and has authored many articles and books, among which are Slavery, Sabbath, War and Women: Case Issues in Biblical Interpretation (Herald Press, 1983); Israel’s Scripture Traditions and the Synoptic Gospels: Story Shaping Story (Hendrickson Publishers, 1994); and Homosexuality: Biblical Interpretation and Moral Discernment (Herald Press, 2003). A Mind Patient and Untamed orders:
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