Arpad Szabó is the 30th Bishop of the Unitarian Church of Rumania.

He was born on April 15, 1935 in Petreni. He served as secretary to the Rumanian Bishop in Koloszvar (now Cluj) from 1958-1965. From 1965-1976, he served as minister of the Koloszvar Unitarian church. In 1974 he received a Th.D. degree in New Testament studies from the Protestant Theological Institute and became a full- time professor, teaching Old and New Testament for the Unitarian theological students. He studied at Meadville/Lombard Theological School (Chicago, USA) in 1977-78. He was a key leader in keeping the Unitarian faith tradition alive in difficult circumstances. After the overthrow of the dictatorship in 1989 he served as Rector of the Protestant Theological Institute (1990-1994). He has received honorary doctorates from the Protestant Theological Faculty of Montreal in 1989 and from Meadville/Lombard Theological School of Chicago in 1994. In December 1996 he was elected as bishop. He served on the IARF council for a great number of years.

William Crawley is a BBC journalist and broadcaster in Northern Ireland.

He was born and raised in north . Prior to his career in the media, he worked as a university lecturer in philosophy and theology and as Presbyterian chaplain at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown. He was educated at , Queen's University, Belfast, and earned a doctorate in philosophy (Ph.D.). He presents t.v. programmes such as BBC Northern Ireland's weekly late-night television interview series "William Crawley Meets ...", face-to-face interviews of 30 minutes in duration with leading thinkers and social reformers from across the world, including the philosopher Peter Singer, the scientist Richard Dawkins, the writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, and the gay bishop Gene Robinson. On radio, he presents an award-winning Sunday morning radio programme with a focus on religion, ethics and current affairs. He writes a BBC blog entitled "Will & Testament", and has also presented a radio documentary on the blogging revolution.

Christopher Hudson is a minister and journalist from Northern Ireland. He is currently promoting the idea of a Liberal Revival. It is his conviction liberal religious people should be out in the public space promoting liberal religion and its freeing of people. In his opinion, it is possible to take a generic approach with this. He is also involved in the continuing peace process with protestant paramilitaries and has worked with them for many years to get them to move from violence. He is also involved in helping to promote the right to same sex union in the Irish Republic.

Ivo de Jong (1956) is part time minister, journalist, musician and writer from the Netherlands. He studied with the World Council of Churches, worked in (the then still communist part of) Germany, as a mime and musician in the United States, travelled twice around the world (with and without his family) and wrote a spiritual book on travelling. Ivo de Jong organises youth camps to South Africa, Bosnia and Russia; he lectures on subjects as diverse as popular music, the spirit of sports, Shostakovich, the Islam of Cordoba, Marc Rothko, the chapels of Matisse and Picasso - and even on Sir Stanley Spencer. His lecture in Belfast involves music clips, and their (liberal religious) iconography, and modern art.

Maria Glans Matisse