Editor Sarah Hinlicky Wilson received her B.A. in Theoology and Philosophy from Lenoir-Rhyne College and her M.Div. and Ph.D from Princeton Theological Seminary. Sarah presently serves in a part-time call as Pastor of St. John Lutheran Church, Trenton, NJ. In 1998-99 she served as Editorial and Research Assistant at First Things, and many of her writings for that journal can be found on the First Things Website. She has also written for Books and Culture, Christianity Today, and Lutheran Forum among many others. Sarah's many book credits include "The Great Reunion Beyond," reprinted from Christianity Today in Best Christian Writing (2002) and "Seminary Sanity," reprinted from First Things in Best Christian Writing (2001). She is married to Andrew Wilson, a Ph.D. student at Princeton Theological Seminary and they have a son, Ezekiel. Andrew will assist with the layout and production of the journal.

Associate Editor Paul Sauer received his B.A. in Classical Civilizations from Valparaiso University and his M. Div. and S.T.M. from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. He serves as Pastor at the Lutheran School and Church of Our Saviour, Bronx, NY and is a member of the ALPB board of directors. He also served as Interim Editor of Lutheran Forum and did the final editing for the ALPB book, Lively Stone: The Autobiography of Berthold von Schenk, edited by Pastors G. George Fry and Joel R. Kurz. Paul also serves as Secretary of the Atlantic District, LCMS and as an instructor in both the LCMS and ELCA deacon program. He and his wife Jessica, a trained Lutheran high school teacher and presently a stay-home Mom, have two children, Katharine and Rosie.

Editor Richard O. Johnson is a parish pastor serving Peace Lutheran Church, a ELCA congregation in Grass Valley, California since 1984. He received his B.A. from San Francisco State University in Philosophy and Religion; an M.Div. from Yale; and a Ph.D. in church history from the Graduate Theological Union. He has served as Adjunct Professor at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary's Northern California Extension. He has written articles for Lutheran Quarterly and Word and World and delivered several papers at the Lutheran Historical Conference.
He and his wife of 29 years, Lois Solberg Johnson, are the parents of two children: Luke, currently working as a journalist in Beijing for the China Daily, and Johanna, a second-year student at Yale Divinity School. Associate Editor Peter Speckhard serves Faith Lutheran Church in Green Bay , Wisconsin, and has previously served as Associate Pastor, also at Fatih, and missionary-at-larged for the Northern Illinois District of the LCMS, planting Community of Faith Lutheran Chruch in Spring Grove, Il. He is a 1997 graduate of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis (though he attended both LCMS seminaries, transferring from Ft. Wayne after one year due to a job opportuity for his wife in St. Louis) and a 1992 graduatge of Valparaiso Universisty, where he received a B.A. in English as a Christ College associagte. He has also served in the U.S. Army Reserves, has participated in the pastor-theologian program of the Center for Theoloogical Inquiry in Princeton, NJ, and has served on the boards of various LCMS-affiliated schools and organizatins. He is married to Heidi, a Latin teacher-turned-homemaker and has five children. It has been said of "Forum Letter" that it "is a report of Lutheran doings that is sometimes serious, sometimes humorous, and often both; sometimes controversial but almost never dull."