RICHARD AMESBURY is Associate Professor of Ethics at Claremont
School of Theology, working at the intersection of ethics, political theory
and philosophy of religion.
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TIM BOCK is a successful entrepreneur and businessman who has
created business to fund mission projects and worked as a missions-business
consultant around the world.
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FRANK CARRASCO works with Exodus ministry in Florida and has
spoken at various conferences and is currently pursuing a double major in
psychology and political science.
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MARK "TRAA" DANIELS is the bass guitarist of the San Diego,
California rock band P.O.D., and President and CEO of Ryot Entertainment
Group, a company dedicated to helping artists achieve their goals in the
music industry.
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ROSS MARTINIE EILER dropped out of the PhD program at the
University of Chicago to join the Catholic Worker movement. He co-founded
the Bloomington Christian Radical Community
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SHARON GALLAGHER is editor of Radix magazine (Where Christian
Faith Meets Contemporary Culture), associate director and professor of
Christianity and the media at New College Berkeley.
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MIMI HADDAD is president of Christians for Biblical Equality. She
holds a PhD in Historical Theology from the University of Durham,
England.
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DANIEL HARRELL is a minister at Park Street Church in Boston who
holds a PhD in psychology from Boston College. He is author of Nature's
Witness: How Evolution Can Inspire Faith.
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JOHN & TINA HERRIN have been married for 36 years, with three
children and three grandkids. Tina has an M.Div. from North Park Theological
Seminary and has counseled and taught on marriage and relationships for three
decades. John is the Cornerstone Festival director.
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CHRIS HEUERTZ directs Word Made Flesh, an organization that exists
to serve Jesus among the most vulnerable of the world's poor. He wrote the
book by which this seminar is titled.
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TONY JONES is the author of many books, including The New Christians:
Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier and is theologian-in-residence at
Solomon's Porch in Minneapolis.
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GLENN KAISER sang and played in Resurrection Band, and has
recorded numerous solo albums and performs with the Glenn Kaiser Band. He is
a pastor with Jesus People USA in Chicago.
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WENDI KAISER shared lead vocals with husband Glenn in Resurrection
Band and has lectured on spirituality, relationships and sexuality around the
world with candor, compassion and humor.
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EDWARD KAPLAN is professor of Humanities at Brandeis University
where he teaches courses on French, Comparative literature, and religious
studies, and the author of an award-winning two-volume biography of Rabbi
Heschel, whom he knew during his final years.
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JAN KRIST is a singer-songwriter who has recorded and performed
extensively and won many awards for her work. Jan has also led both creative
and business workshops for musicians.
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ANDREW MARIN is president and founder of The Marin Foundation, a
non-profit organization that seeks to build bridges between GLBT and
religious communities.
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JOHN M. PERKINS is the "father of Christian community development,"
with five decades of prophetic writing, speaking, founding ministries,
inspiring activism among the poor.
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JASON PETERS teaches and has written on British and American
literature and edited the book Wendell Berry: Life and Work. He is an
associate professor of literature at Augustana College.
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PATRICK PROVOST-SMITH works as a consultant for theological
education in an international context, and is a founding co-editor of The
Journal of World Christianity. He has served on the faculty at Harvard
Divinity School and taught at the Perkins School of Theology.
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DEBRA STRAHAN & DEELIGHT MURPHY each have close family members with mental illness.
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BRIAN RAISON serves as an adolescent development specialist at
Ohio State University. He authored the national award-winning College 101
Seminar and founded CollegeFaith.org.
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SANDY RAMSEY is Executive Director of Cornerstone Community Outreach in Chicago.
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SOONG-CHAN RAH is Assistant Professor of Church Growth and
Evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago. He is the author of
The Next Evangelicalism (IVP).
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GABRIEL SALGUERO co-pastors (with his wife, Jeanette) the
multicultural Lamb's Church in New York City. He directs the
Hispanic/Latino(a) Leadership Program at Princeton Theological
Seminary.
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VALERIE RAE SMITH is the Associate Professor and Co-Chair of the
Department of Theatre, Messiah College.
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CHRISTINE SNEERINGER is the executive director of Worthy Creations
in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She is a frequent conference speaker and
freelance writer.
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MICHAEL SPENCER's web sites (Internet Monk &
Jesus-Shaped Spirituality) provide helpful conversation for thousands of
people wandering in the contemporary evangelical wilderness.
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NEIL TAYLOR is a pastor with Jesus People USA, a Christian
community in Chicago. He is a graduate of North Park Theological Seminary's
Spiritual Direction program.
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PHYLISS TICKLE has authored dozens of books on religion in
America, including The Divine Hours and The Great Emergence.
She is a lector and lay Eucharistic minister in the Episcopal
Church.
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RICHARD TWISS is a member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe. He is
founder and President of Wiconi International, a Christian ministry to both
Native American communities and beyond
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KEITH WASSERMAN founded and directs Good Works, Inc. in Athens,
Ohio, which engages the culture of poverty with the Gospel through a wide
range of ministries and community-building.
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CHRISTIAN WIMAN is the award-winning author of two books of poetry
The Long Home and Hard Night, and a book of essays, Ambition
& Survival. He is the editor of Poetry magazine.
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