BELIEFS & PRACTICES
Divining intentions: What did America's founders really mean?

IN THE NORTHEAST
• David D. Hall specializes in 17th- and 18th-century American religious history at Harvard Divinity School and can talk about popular religion during the time of the founders. Contact 617-495-7732 or through assistant Kristin Gunst, 617-495-8815.
• Jonathan Sarna is professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. He is co-author of Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997). Contact 781-736-2977, sarna@brandeis.edu.
• Jon Butler is dean of Yale University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He also teaches history at Yale and has written extensively on the role of faith in American history. Contact 203-432-2733, jon.butler@yale.edu.

IN THE EAST
• Daniel Dreisbach, a nonpracticing lawyer and the author of Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State (New York University Press, 2003), teaches in the department of justice, law and society at American University in Washington, D.C. He has written and spoken extensively on the origins of American church-state relations. Contact 202-885-2380, ddreisb@american.edu.
• Forrest Church is senior minister at All Souls Unitarian Church in New York and editor of The Separation of Church and State: Writings on a Fundamental Freedom by America's Founders (Beacon Press, 2004). He's working on a book about religion and the presidency. Contact 212-535-5530, revchurch@aol.com.
• Isaac Kramnick teaches government at Cornell University and co-authored The Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of the Secular State (W.W. Norton, 2005). His 1996 American Prospect essay "Is God a Republican?" reflects on religious entanglement in partisan politics. Book co-author R. Laurence Moore teaches American studies at Cornell. Contact Kramnick, 607-255-9175, ik15@cornell.edu; contact Moore, rlm8@cornell.edu.

IN THE SOUTHEAST
• John Witte Jr. directs the Law and Religion Program at Emory University law school in Atlanta. He specializes in religious liberty and legal history. Contact 404-727-6980 or via April Bogle, 404-712-8713.
• Stephen McDowell is president and co-founder of the Providence Foundation in Charlottesville, Va. It says its mission is spreading liberty and justice among nations, and it uses the example of America's founding to illustrate the relationship between theology and civil government. Contact 434-978-4535.

IN THE SOUTH
• David R. Bains teaches the history of American Christianity at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. Contact 205-726-2879 or 205-726-2925, drbains@samford.edu.
• John Eidsmoe is an Alabama constitutional lawyer, retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and author of Christianity and the Constitution: The Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Baker Academic, 1995). He has advised former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. Contact eidsmoe@juno.com.

IN THE MIDWEST
• Frank Lambert, who teaches history at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., wrote The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America (Princeton University Press, 2003). He argues that Revolutionary-era America was religiously pluralistic and that the Constitution recognizes and tolerates that. Contact 765-494-5811, flambert@cla.purdue.edu.
• Garry Wills teaches cultural history at Northwestern University in Illinois and is a prolific author of books about American history, government and religion. Contact 847-467-2504, g-wills@northwestern.edu.
• Mark Noll is one of the most cited authorities today on evangelicalism in America. He has been teaching at Wheaton College since 1978, and his many books include America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford University Press, 2002). Contact 630-752-5865, Mark.Noll@wheaton.edu.
• Catherine A. Brekus is an American religious historian at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is especially interested in early America and is writing a book about popular religion in that period. Contact 773-702-4272, cbrekus@midway.uchicago.edu.
• Bruce Braden edited 'Ye Will Say I Am No Christian': The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values (Prometheus, 2005), source documents that trace the views of Jefferson and Adams over time. Contact the Indianapolis man, an amateur historian, by email at brucebrad2@aol.com or through Lynn Pasquale at Prometheus, 800-853-7545.

IN THE SOUTHWEST
• Derek Davis is on the faculty of the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He is frequently cited on church-state and religious liberty issues. Contact 254-710-1510 (institute), 254-710-4412 (office), derek_davis@baylor.edu.
• Mark Weldon Whitten is the author of The Myth of Christian America: What You Need to Know About the Separation of Church and State (Smyth & Helwys, 1999). He teaches religion and philosophy at Montgomery College. He says new research has shown that the founders had mixed opinions on the role of religion in the state and that the First Amendment provisions about religion - to neither establish religion nor prohibit its exercise - are in tension, with neither having priority over the other. Contact 936-273-7492, Mark.W.Whitten@nhmccd.edu.

IN THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• Thomas E. Buckley is a Jesuit who teaches American religious history at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, Calif. He wrote Church and State in Revolutionary Virginia, 1776-1787 (University Press of Virginia, 1977) and is working on a study of Jefferson and religious freedom. Contact 510-549-5034, tbuckley@jstb.edu.
• Catherine Albanese chairs the religious studies department at the University of California Santa Barbara and has written about religion and the American Revolution. Contact 805-893-3564, Albanese@religion.ucsb.edu.
• Mark David Hall teaches political science at George Fox University in Newberg, Ore., and co-edited The Founders on God and Government (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004). Contact 503-554-2674, mhall@georgefox.edu.