Christopher H. Evans is professor of history of Christianity and Methodist studies at Boston University's School of Theology. His most recent books include The Social Gospel in American Religion (2017) and a biography on the nineteenth-century women's rights reformer Frances Willard (2023).

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Mark A. Lamport has for nearly forty years been a professor at graduate theological schools in the United States and Europe. He is author or editor of twenty books and works from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Fort Myers, Florida.