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Vincent Bacote teaches theology at Wheaton College in Illinois. He is the author of The Spirit in Public Theology: Abraham Kuyper’s Legacy for the 21st Centuryst Centuryst (Baker Academic, 2005). He is also co-editor with Dennis Okholm and Laura Miguelez ofScripture in the Evangelical Tradition(InterVarsity Press, 2004).

Aaron Belz’s essays and poems have been published across a spectrum of journals, including Books & Culture, Boston Review, Paste, Wired, and Fine Madness. He teaches in the Department of English at Saint Louis University, and is working on a Ph.D. in English Literature.

David Koyzis teaches political science at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame, and is the author of the award-winning Political Visions and Illusions: A Survey & Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies(InterVarsity Press, 2003).

Russ Kuykendall is Senior Researcher with the Work Research Foundation, formerly a political staffer at the Parliament of Canada and the Ontario Provincial Parliament. He was involved in the machinery of Parliament, political communications, policy analysis, and the formulation and writing of public policy and draft legislation. Prior to this, Russ served in the pastoral ministry for some eleven years.

Ray Pennings is Vice President of Research with the Work Research Foundation, leading the organization’s economic and industrial relations research. He has wide experience with trade unions, public affairs, business consulting, public policy, and political activism. He has authored several books and hundreds of journal and magazine articles, and lives in Calgary, Alberta.

Gideon Strauss, with a Ph.D. in social philosophy and the ethics of public policy, is editor of Comment is editor of Comment is editor of and a Senior Fellow at the Work Research Foundation. He believes there are enduring patterns of economic life that don’t change, and believes it is time to start paying attention to them.

Al Wolters is a professor in Religion & Theology at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario. He served as a Senior Member at the Institute of Christian Studies in Toronto from 1974-1984, received his doctorate in philosophy from the Free University of Amsterdam in 1972, and is the author of Creation Regained: Biblical is the author of Creation Regained: Biblical is the author ofBasics for a Reformational Worldview (Eerdmans, 1985).

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Eric Jacobsen is the author of Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith (Brazos Press, 2003) as well as numerous articles on New Urbanism. He is a member of the Congress for New Urbanism, and is currently in full-time studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, pursuing a PhD in Theology and Culture.

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Katherine Leary is the Director of the Center for Faith and Work in New York City, a ministry of Redeemer Presbyterian Church. She earned a Masters of Business Administration fom the University of Virginia, and spent twenty years leading several high-tech companies.

Ray Pennings is Vice President of Research with the Work Research Foundation, leading the organization’s economic and industrial relations research. He has authored several books and hundreds of journal and magazine articles, and lives in Calgary, Alberta.

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Gideon Strauss is the editor of Comment and a Senior Fellow at the Work Research Foundation.

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Clifford Blake Anderson is Curator of Reformed Research Collections in the Princeton Theological Seminary Library.

Vincent Bacote is Assistant Profess of Theology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He is the author of The Spirit in Public Theology: Appropriating the Legacy of Abraham Kuyper (2005).

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Calvin Seerveld is Professor Emeritus in Aesthetics at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, and the author of several influential books, including Rainbows for the Fallen World.

Jim Skillen directs the Center for Public Justice in Washington D.C., and is the author most recently of With or Against the World?: America’s Role among the Nations (2005).

James K.A. Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Introducing Radical Orthodoxy (Baker Academic, 2004) and Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church (Baker Academic, 2006).

Harry Van Dyke is Professor Emeritus in History at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario, and Director of the Dooyeweerd Centre for Christian Philosophy.

Al Wolters is Professor of Religion & Theology at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario. He served as a Senior Member at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto from 1974-1984, and is the author of Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview.

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Calvin G. Seerveld is Senior Fellow Emeritus in Aesthetics at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto.

Gideon Strauss is editor of Comment and a Senior Fellow of the Work Research Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and ethics, and studies the relationship between our deepest commitments and our everyday work.

Walter Wright has been paying close attention to the nature of leadership, relationships and work for over thirty years. He was President of Regent College in Vancouver for twelve years, and is currently Executive Director of the De Pree Leadership Center at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena. He has authored Relational Leadership and Mentoring.

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Vincent Bacote teaches theology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He is the author of The Spirit in Public Theology: Appropriating the Legacy of Abraham Kuyper (Baker Academic, 2005). He is also co-editor with Dennis Okholm and Laura Miguelez of Evangelicals & Scripture: Tradition, Authority and Hermeneutics (InterVarsity Press, 2004).

David Koyzis teaches political science at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario. He is the author of Political Visions and Illusions: A Survey & Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies (InterVarsity Press, 2003).

Ray Pennings is Vice-President of Research at the WRF, specializing in industrial relations and leadership studies. He has wide experience with trade unions, public affairs, business consulting, public policy, and political activism. Ray parlays his expertise and networks into positioning the Work Research Foundation as a leading economic and policy research institute with respect to industrial relations in Canada. James Brink is a Junior Fellow at the Work Research Foundation since September 2004. After an earlier stint working with the WRF full time, James is currently studying at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. Daniel Silliman is a senior in philosophy at Hillsdale College, writing his thesis on the possibility of a linguistic solution to the mind/body problem. He intends to earn a Ph.D. in the field and is interested in the work of Derrida, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. A native of Northern California, he is currently working on a collection of short stories.

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“ Remember your creator during your youth: when all possibilities lie open before you and you can offer all your strength intact for his service…when you have many paths opening at your feet, before the weight of necessity overwhelms you.” Jacques Ellul Reason for Being: A Meditation on Ecclesiastes (1990)

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Vincent Bacote teaches theology at Wheaton College in Illinois. He is the author of The Spirit in Public Theology: Abraham Kuyper’s Legacy for the 21st Centuryst Centuryst (Baker Academic, 2005). He is also co-editor with Dennis Okholm and Laura Miguelez ofScripture in the Evangelical Tradition(InterVarsity Press, 2004).

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David Koyzis teaches political science at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame, and is the author of the award-winning Political Visions and Illusions: A Survey & Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies(InterVarsity Press, 2003).

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Ray Pennings is Vice President of Research with the Work Research Foundation, leading the organization’s economic and industrial relations research. He has wide experience with trade unions, public affairs, business consulting, public policy, and political activism. He has authored several books and hundreds of journal and magazine articles, and lives in Calgary, Alberta.

Gideon Strauss, with a Ph.D. in social philosophy and the ethics of public policy, is editor of Comment is editor of Comment is editor of and a Senior Fellow at the Work Research Foundation. He believes there are enduring patterns of economic life that don’t change, and believes it is time to start paying attention to them.

Al Wolters is a professor in Religion & Theology at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario. He served as a Senior Member at the Institute of Christian Studies in Toronto from 1974-1984, received his doctorate in philosophy from the Free University of Amsterdam in 1972, and is the author of Creation Regained: Biblical is the author of Creation Regained: Biblical is the author ofBasics for a Reformational Worldview (Eerdmans, 1985).

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“ Remember your creator during your youth: when all possibilities lie open before you and you can offer all your strength intact for his service…when you have many paths opening at your feet, before the weight of necessity overwhelms you.” Jacques Ellul Reason for Being: A Meditation on Ecclesiastes (1990)

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