Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. serves as the ninth president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary-the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the world. Dr. Mohler has been recognized by such influential publications as Time and Christianity Today as a leader among American evangelicals. In fact, Time.com called him the "reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement in the U.S".  Dr. Mohler is a theologian and an ordained minister, having served as pastor and staff minister of several Southern Baptist churches. He came to the presidency of Southern Seminary from service as editor of The Christian Index, the oldest of the state papers serving the Southern Baptist Convention. A native of Lakeland, Florida, Dr. Mohler was a Faculty Scholar at Florida Atlantic University before receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He holds a Master of Divinity degree and the Doctor of Philosophy (in systematic and historical theology) from Southern Seminary. He has pursued additional study at the St. Meinrad School of Theology and has done research at Oxford University (England). Dr. Mohler also serves Professor of Christian Theology at Southern Seminary. His writings have been published throughout the United States and Europe. He has contributed to several books including “Hell Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents Eternal Punishment,” “Here We Stand: A Call From Confessing Evangelicals” and “The Coming Evangelical Crisis.” He served as General Editor of “The Gods of the Age or the God of the Ages: Essays by Carl F. H. Henry” and served from 1985 to 1993 as Associate Editor of Preaching, a journal for evangelical preachers. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology. Forthcoming book projects include works on the future of evangelical theology and on the evangelical responses to the cultural crisis.  Dr. Mohler is listed in Who's Who in America and other biographical reference works and serves on the boards of several organizations including Focus on the Family. He also serves on the Board of Reference for The Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.

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The Right Reverend Michael Nazir-Ali was born in Karachi, Pakistan to Christian Punjabi parents, James and Patience Nazir-Ali.   His father had converted from Islam. He attended the Roman Catholic-run St Patrick's school in Karachi and began attending Roman Catholic services and identifying as Christian at the age of 15; he was formally received into the Church of Pakistan aged 20.

Academic career

Bishop Nazir-Ali attended Saint Patrick's High School, Karachi, read economics, Islamic history, and sociology at the University of Karachi (BA 1970) and studied in preparation for ordination at Ridley Hall, Cambridge (1970). He undertook further postgraduate studies in theology at St Edmund Hall, Oxford (BLitt 1974, MLitt 1981), Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (MLitt 1976), and the Australian College of Theology (PhD 1983). He has also studied at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. His particular academic interests include comparative literature and comparative philosophy of religion. In addition to teaching appointments in Australia and Canada, he has been a tutor in the University of Cambridge, Senior Tutor of Karachi Theological College, and Visiting Professor of Theology and Religious Studies in the University of Greenwich. He has been elected an Honorary Fellow of his colleges at Oxford (St Edmund Hall) and Cambridge (Fitzwilliam). From 1986 until 1989, while he was Assistant to the Archbishop of Canterbury and Co-ordinator of Studies and Education for the Lambeth Conference, he was Honorary Curate of Oxford St Giles and St Philip and St James with St Margaret.

Ecclesiastical and public career

Bishop Nazir-Ali was ordained an Anglican priest in 1976 and worked in Karachi and Lahore, and became the first Bishop of Raiwind in West Punjab (1984-86) — at the time, the youngest bishop in the Anglican Communion. When his life was endangered in Pakistan in 1986, Robert Runcie, the Archbishop of Canterbury, arranged for his refuge in England. Nazir-Ali says, "...the reason behind some of the difficulties I was facing was removed when General Zia was killed - unfortunately for him, and I am now not doing the work that I was doing at the time with the very poor." . He became an assistant to the Archbishop at Lambeth and assisted with the planning of the 1988 Lambeth Conference; he was General Secretary of the Church Mission Society 1989-1994 and concurrently Assistant Bishop of Southwark. He was appointed Bishop of Rochester, England in 1994, and in 1999 entered the House of Lords as one of the "Lords Spiritual" because of his seniority in episcopal office, the first religious leader from Asia to serve there. He will cease to be a member of the House of Lords upon retirement. He was suggested as a possible Archbishop of Canterbury but was passed over in favour of Rowan Williams.  Between 1997 and 2003. he was chairman of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's ethics and law committee. He is a leader of the Network for Inter-faith Concerns of the Anglican Communion..

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Dr. William J. Abraham is the Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies at Perkins School of Theology. He has degrees from The Queen’s University of Belfast (B.A.), Asbury Seminary (M.Div.), and Regent’s Park College, Oxford University (D.Phil.). His teaching specialties are religious epistemology, John Wesley, doctrine of revelation, systematic theology, philosophy of religion and evangelism. 

                                Research Interests

Wesleyan and Methodist theology, Cardinal Newman, renewal movements in Christianity, ecclesiology, divine revelation, theological education

 Selected Publications

• Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998);

• Waking from Doctrinal Amnesia (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995);

• The Logic of Evangelism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989);

• The Rationality of Religious Belief, edited with Steven W. Holtzer (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987);

• Divine Revelation and the Limits of Historical Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000);

• An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985) 

Professional Distinctions

Ordained elder, Southwest Texas Conference, United Methodist Church; member, General Commission on Unity and Interreligious Concerns of the United Methodist Church (1992-present); recipient of Pew Evangelical Scholars Program Grant, Pew Charitable Trusts (1993-1996); Joint Book of the Year Award from the Institute of Christian Studies for Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology (1999)

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The Right Reverend Robert William Duncan became the Bishop of Pittsburgh on August 1, 1997. He was invested and seated as diocesan in Trinity Cathedral, Pittsburgh, on the Feast of Saint Cyprian, September 13, 1997.Born on July 5, 1948, Robert Duncan was raised in Bordentown, New Jersey. The eighteenth priest (and second bishop) to be ordained from Christ Church in Bordentown, Bishop Duncan graduated as valedictorian of the Bordentown Military Institute in 1966. He graduated with honors from Trinity College in Hartford in 1970 and from the General Theological Seminary in 1973. He also undertook advanced research in Scottish History at Edinburgh University in 1972-73. He was assistant dean of General Seminary from 1974-78, Episcopal chaplain of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1978-82, and rector of Saint Thomas's Parish in Newark, Delaware, from 1982-92. In 1992, he became canon to the ordinary for Bishop Alden Hathaway in Pittsburgh. Sabbatical study in 1987 focused on "Healing and Miracles in their Biblical, Historical and Contemporary Contexts." Sabbatical leave in 1997 focused on “God’s Vision for the Diocese.” In 2003, Bishop Duncan was Bishop in Residence of Nashotah House. Bishop Duncan has devoted himself to mission and evangelism throughout his years of ministry, with a special passion for reaching adolescents and young adults. He has also led short-term missions in Haiti, Trinidad, and Rwanda. He is a champion of the poor and dispossessed of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, encouraging creative urban church-planting, as well as many other church-plants. He is active in the Cursillo and Happening movements and served as an elected member of the General Board of Examining Chaplains from 1991 until 1997. Bishop Duncan is a trustee of Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry and of Nashotah House.Recognized internationally for his commitment to the “two-thirds world” Bishop Duncan served on the Programme Committee of the Network for Anglicans in Mission and Evangelism, an agency created at the 1998 Lambeth Conference. In 2004 Bishop Duncan was a driving force in the creation of the Anglican Relief and Development Fund, and multi-million dollar enterprise for which he continues to serve as President.Best known beyond Pittsburgh for his role as Moderator of the Anglican Communion Network since its inception in 2003, and as Chairman of the Common Cause Partnership (gathering ten orthodox Anglican bodies in the United States and Canada) since its creation in 2004, Bishop Bob (as he is known globally) has proved himself an extraordinary leader, as well as a “brave heart,” at a critical moment in Church history.Bishop Duncan married Nara Dewar on August 16, 1969. They are a dynamic team. They share a love of gardening, travel, hospitality and music.

 Honors and Publications

• Legion of Valor Bronze Cross for Achievement, United States Army, 1966.

• Valedictorian and Battalion Executive Officer, Bordentown Military Institute, 1966

• Sacristan and Verger, Trinity College Chapel, 1967-1970