John C. Green is professor of political science and director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. He is the coauthor of The Diminishing Divide: Religion's Changing Role in American Politics and The Bully Pulpit: The Politics of Protestant Clergy. He is the coeditor of The State of the Parties and Prayers in the Precincts.

Mark J. Rozell is professor and chair, Department of Politics at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of nine books and editor of ten books on various aspects of American politics, including the politics of the Christian Right. He is coauthor of Second Coming: The New Christian Right in Virginia Politics, and coeditor of God at the Grassroots; God at the Grassroots, 1996; and Prayers in the Precincts.

W. Clyde Wilcox is professor of government at Georgetown University. He is the author of Onward Christian Soldiers: The Religious Right in American Politics, coauthor of Second Coming: The New Christian Right in Virginia Politics, and coeditor of God at the Grassroots; God at the Grassroots, 1996; and Prayers in the Precincts.