Brian Flanagan is a Catholic theologian whose research specializes in ecclesiology. He is Senior Fellow at New Ways Ministry, a nonprofit working for education and advocacy on LGBTQ+ issues in the Catholic Church, and Research Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University. He is the author of Stumbling in Holiness: Sin and Sanctity in the Church, and a former President of the College Theology Society.

Maureen H. O’Connell is Professor of Christian Ethics in the Department of Religion and Theology at La Salle University. She authored Compassion: Loving Our Neighbor in an Age of Globalization (Orbis Books, 2009) and If These Walls Could Talk: Community Muralism and the Beauty of Justice (The Liturgical Press, 2012), which won the CTS Book of the Year Award and Catholic Press Association Award for Best Book in Theology in that same year. Her newest book, Undoing the Knots: Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness (Beacon Press 2021) explores the interplay of her Catholic and racial identities across her family’s history in the City of Philadelphia. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Teaching, the Advisory Board of the Collaborative for Catholic Organizing, and the Board of the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies. Through the duration of the Global Synod on Synodality she is serving as Director of Synod and Higher Education for Discerning Deacons, an international initiative to renew the deaconate and restore Catholic women to it.

Michael J. Terrien, Obl. OSB Michael Terrien serves as an Archdiocese of Chicago Laudato Si’ Action Platform Commission Coordinator/
Facilitator and Co-Coordinates its Care for Creation Ministry.
He served as the Archdiocese’s Office for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affair’s Project Director. He founded and currently chairs Ecumenism Metro Chicago’s Care for Creation Committee. He founded and chairs the Catholic Association of Diocesan Ecumenical and Interreligious Officers’ (CADEIO) Care for Creation Committee. Michael serves on the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development’s Laudato Si’ Working Group for Parishes and Dioceses. He served on the Holy Father’s Covid-19 Commission’s Ecology Task Force. Michael served as a Trustee of the Parliament of the World’s Religions where he co-founded and currently serves on its Climate Action Task Force and Buddhist — Catholic Dialogue on the Climate Crisis.

Richard teaches in the areas of liturgical and sacramental theology, ritual studies, liturgical history of the east and west, liturgy and culture, and catechesis. His research areas are liturgy and sacrament in the context of postmodernities; hermeneutics and liturgy; and liturgical inculturation and postcolonial studies. His current research project focuses on an engagement of liturgy and theologies of sacrament with food studies.

Nick Olkovich is Associate Professor and holds the Marie Anne Blondin Chair in Catholic Theology at St. Mark’s College in Vancouver, Canada. He teaches foundational, systematic, and pastoral theology at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Nick is a political theologian who specializes in Catholic social ethics and on religious responses to our current populist moment with a special emphasis on the work of Bernard Lonergan, Chantal Mouffe, and Pope Francis. He has published widely in these areas and is the co-editor of The Promise of Renewal: Dominicans at Vatican II.