CHURCH/STATE
Atheist awakening: the appeal of unbelief

IN THE NORTHEAST
• Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor in the psychology department at Harvard University. He is the author of several books that argue that morality and religious impulses are products of the human mind. He wrote The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. Read “The Mystery of Consciousness,” a Jan. 19, 2007, essay he wrote in Time magazine. Contact 617-495-0831, pinker@wjh.harvard.edu.
• Alan Wolfe is a professor of political science at Boston College and director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life. He can speak about the role of nonbelief in American religious life. Contact 617-552-1862, wolfe@bc.edu.
• Harvey Cox is the Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School and a renowned author and commentator on religious issues. He is the author of The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective. Contact 617-495-5752, harvey_cox@harvard.edu, or through his faculty assistant Carol Edwards, 617-495-4519, carol_edwards@harvard.edu.

IN THE EAST
• H. Allen Orr is a biology professor at the University of Rochester in New York. He wrote a Jan. 11, 2007, essay, “A Mission to Convert,” in The New York Review of Books that critiqued the latest round of books on atheism. Contact 585-275-3838, aorr@mail.rochester.edu.
• Stephen M. Barr is a theoretical particle physicist at the Bartol Research Institute of the University of Delaware and a member of the editorial board of the conservative religious periodical First Things. He writes frequently about the intersection of faith and science, often critiquing the strictly materialist point of view of many atheists. Contact 302-831-6883, smbarr@bartol.udel.edu.
• John F. Haught is a Distinguished Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and has written extensively on the relationship between scientific and religious belief. Contact 202-687-6119, haughtj@georgetown.edu.

IN THE SOUTHEAST
• E. Brooks Holifield is a professor of American church history at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University in Atlanta. Contact 404-727-6319, eholifi@emory.edu.
• Norman L. Geisler is a professor of Christian apologetics and co-founder of Southern Evangelical Seminary and Bible College in Matthews, N.C. He has written on secularism and humanism from a Christian point of view. Contact 704-847-5600, geislerasst@ses.edu.

IN THE SOUTH
• Jay Geller is an assistant professor of modern Jewish culture and religious studies at the divinity school at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He has written on atheism and modern Judaism. Contact 615-343-3968, jay.geller@vanderbilt.edu.
• Franklyn C. Niles is an associate professor of political science at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Ark. He wrote the atheism entry for the Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics. Contact 479-524-7396, FNiles@jbu.edu.
• Russell Tracey McCutcheon is a professor of religious studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Contact 205-348-8512, rmccutch@bama.ua.edu.

IN THE MIDWEST
• Ronald Aronson is Distinguished Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit. He is a contributor to The Nation and the Times Literary Supplement and has written on the history of atheism and its current manifestations. Contact 313-577-0828, ronald.aronson@wayne.edu.
• Bryan F. Le Beau is dean of institutional services at Kansas City Kansas Community College. He is the author of The Atheist: Madalyn Murray O’Hair. Contact 913-288-7281, blebeau@kckcc.edu.
• Kelly James Clark is a professor of the philosophy of religion at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. He has written about atheism in modern society, including the entry on atheism for the New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics. Contact 616-526-6421, kclark@calvin.edu.
• Joseph Gerteis is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota and co-author of the 2006 study on the social acceptance of atheists in America. Contact 612-624-1615, gerte004@umn.edu.
• Douglas Hartmann is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota and co-author of the 2006 study on the social acceptance of atheists in America. Contact 612-624-0835, hartm021@umn.edu.

IN THE SOUTHWEST
• Steven Weinberg is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Texas. He is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics and the U.S. National Medal of Science, and is a foreign member of the Royal Society of London. Read his Jan. 17, 2007, review of Dawkins’ book in the Times Literary Supplement. Contact 512-471-4394, weinberg@physics.utexas.edu.
• Francis J. Beckwith is an associate professor of church-state studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He writes and comments widely in defense of traditional Christianity. Contact 254-710-1510, Francis_Beckwith@baylor.edu.
• George Alfred James is an associate professor in the department of philosophy and religion studies at the University of North Texas in Denton. He wrote the atheism entry for the Encyclopedia of Religion. Contact 940-565-4791, james@unt.edu.

IN THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• David P. Barash is a professor of psychology at the University of Washington. He wrote an April 20, 2007, essay, “The DNA of Religious Faith,” in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Contact 206-543-8784, dpbarash@u.washington.edu.
• Daniel Howard-Snyder is a professor of philosophy at Western Washington University in Bellingham. He wrote the article “Grounds for Belief in God Aside, Does Evil Make Atheism More Reasonable Than Theism?” in the journal Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion (2003). Contact 360-650-7767, daniel.howard-snyder@wwu.edu.
• Gregory Koukl is founder and president of Stand to Reason, an organization devoted to Christian apologetics and based in Signal Hill, Calif. He is also an adjunct professor of Christian apologetics at Biola University and has written in defense of faith against the arguments of the new atheists. Contact 562-595-7333, melinda@str.org.
• Phil Zuckerman is an associate professor of sociology at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif. He contributed an article, “Contemporary Atheism: Rates and Patterns,” to the Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Contact 909-607-4495, phil_zuckerman@pitzer.edu.