The Biblical Basis for Women's Service in the Church
N.T. WRIGHT (D.D., Oxford University) is Bishop of Durham, England. He taught New Testament studies for twenty years at Cambridge, McGill, and Oxford universities. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture (HarperSanFrancisco, 2005).

Gender and Justice in the New Testament
ALAN JOHNSON  is emeritus professor of New Testament and Christian ethics and former director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics at Wheaton College and Graduate School. He is author and co-author of a number of books including most recently, commentaries on 1 Corinthians (IVP, 2005) and Revelation (Zondervan, 2006).

Is There a Biblical Basis for Women Elders?
VALERIE AND MICHAEL GRIFFITHS spent 10 years in Japan and 13 years in Singapore as members of the Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF). Mike became the general director of the mission in 1969. He has also served as the principal of London Bible College, where he taught New Testament and Mission Studies. Valerie was a visiting lecturer in Old Testament in Singapore and London for 20 years. Mike and Valerie also taught at Regent College, in Vancouver. They have been members of Men, Women and God (MWG) in England from its beginning.

The Scandal of Equality in First-Century Christian Teaching
DAVID INSTONE-BREWER  is a research fellow at Tyndale House, which is linked to Cambridge University. His current interest is rabbinic traditions that can be dated to New Testament times. David is author of Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible: The Social and Literary Context. He has a wife and two daughters.

What Translators Haven't Told Us About 1 Tim. 2:11-15
LINDA BELLEVILLE  Linda Belleville (Ph.D., University of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto) is professor of New Testament at Bethel College in Indiana. She has also taught religion and theology at Calvin College and biblical studies at North Park College and Theological Seminary. As an adjunct professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, she taught in the Young Life Institute and for InterVarsity's National Institute for Seminary Education. Linda is a translator for Tyndale House's The New Living Translation and recently submitted a theological commentary on 1 Timothy for Tyndale's Cornerstone Commentary series. She is currently working on a commentary on 1 Corinthians in the Word Biblical Commentary series.

Interpreting Paul's Instructions in 1 Timothy in Light of Ephesian Inscriptions, Artifacts, and Traditions
FRANK RITCHEL AMES  (Ph.D., University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology) is professor of biblical studies at Colorado Christian University. He has served as director of programs and initiatives for the Society of Biblical Literature.