Julia Duin is a contributing writer for the Washington Post magazine and the former religion editor for The Washington Times where she was nominated three times for a Pulitzer prize. She’s also written in the past year for the Economist and the Wall Street Journal. She’s published five books, the most recent being “Quitting Church” and “Days of Fire and Glory,” which tells of an investigation she undertook while reporting for The Houston Chronicle. She has a master’s degree in religion, has won numerous journalism awards and teaches religion reporting at the University of Maryland.

Eric Weiner is author of “Man Seeks God: My Flirtations With the Divine” (Twelve) and, previously, the New York Times best-seller “The Geography of Bliss,” which has been translated into eighteen languages. A former correspondent for NPR and the New York Times, Weiner has reported from more than three dozen countries. His work has appeared in the New Republic, Slate, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The New York Times Magazine, and the anthology Best American Travel Writing. He divides his time between Starbucks and Caribou.