Barbara Bradley Hagerty is the religion correspondent for NPR, reporting on the intersection of faith and politics, law, science and culture since 2003. Her New York Times best-selling book, Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality was published by Riverhead/Penguin Group in May 2009. She also received the American Women in Radio and Television award in 2009 and 2010, the Religion Newswriters award and the National Headliner award.
Dr. Elaine Howard Ecklund is an assistant professor of sociology at Rice University, where she is also a Rice Scholar at the Baker Institute and director of the Program on Religion and Public Life at the Institute for Urban Research. Her work focuses on the ways science and religion intersect with other life spheres, such as public life, immigration and gender. She is the author, most recently, of Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think (2010).