Thomas G. Long is Bandy Professor Emeritus of Preaching at Candler School of Theology, ��Emory University. He has taught preaching for over forty years, and his introductory textbook, The Witness of Preaching, has been translated into a number of languages and is widely used in theological schools around the world. Long has served as the president of the Academy of Homiletics and as senior homiletics editor of the New Interpreter's Bible. He has been editor of Theology Today and serves as an editor-at-large at The Christian Century. Long has been honored with the distinction of delivering the Lyman Beecher Lectures in Preaching at Yale Divinity School and was also named by Time magazine as one of the most effective preachers in the English language. A Presbyterian minister, Long has served churches in Georgia and New Jersey.

Cynthia L. Rigby is the W.C. Brown Professor of Theology at Austin Presbyterian Seminary.

Joel B. Green is Senior Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Fuller Theological Seminary. He has authored or edited more than sixty books, including Introducing the New Testament: Its Literature and Theology. He served as a general editor of Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship and Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, is editor of the New International Commentary on the New Testament series, and was the founding editor of the Journal of Theological Interpretation. Green has been elected to membership in both Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas and the International Society for Science and Religion.