Peter Steinfels is a professor at Fordham University, a prominent writer and journalist specializing in religious affairs and a co-director (with Margaret O'Brien Steinfels) of the Fordham University Center on Religion and Culture. His books include A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America and American Catholics and Civic Engagement.

Amy Ziettlow is a scholar at the Institute for American Values and the host of the podcast series Conversations with Amy Ziettlow. She is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and a leader of the American hospice care movement.