Envision | The Gospel, Politics & The Future


		Ray Aldred co-chairs the Aboriginal Task Force of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, serves on the board of the North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies (NAIITS), and has been a pastor for over 15 years.
		Jay Bakker is a New York City pastor and speaker who ministers to those who have become disillusioned with the church and Christianity.
		Randall Balmer is Professor of American Religious History at Barnard College, Columbia University, and has published widely both in academic and scholarly journals and in the popular press.
		Vincent Bacote is Associate Professor of Theology and the Director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics at Wheaton College.
		Alise Barrymore serves as one of the founding pastors of the Emmaus Community and is Dean of Campus Ministries at North Park University.
		Rita Nakashima Brock has over two decades of experience in the religion academy, serving as a professor at several colleges and universities, as a senior level administrator at Harvard University, and as a mentor to women and racial and ethnic minority scholars.
		Bruce Benson is chair of the department of Philosophy at Wheaton College, and has published books on Nietzche and the phenomenology of music.
		Malinda Berry writes on Christian social responsibility and community-based theological practices and is the co-editor of Wrestling with the Text: Young Adult Perspectives on Scripture.
		Bart Campolo is a veteran urban minister and activist who speaks and writes about grace, faith, loving relationships and social justice.
		Noel Castellanos has served as a minister to the Latin American community for over 25 years, including youth ministry, community development in San Francisco, and church planting.
		Richard Cizik is Vice President for Governmental Affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals, and is responsible for setting the association’s policy direction on issues before Congress, the White House, and Supreme Court.
		Shane Claiborne is a founding member of The Simple Way community in Philadelphia, a speaker, and the author of The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical.
		Miguel de la Torre is the director of the Justice and Peace Institute at the Iliff School of Theology, and serves as the associate professor for social ethics.
		Jeremy Del Rio is a New York based attorney, social entrepreneur, minister, and civic leader who works on behalf of cultural transformation.
		R.M. Keelan Downton is chair of the Department of Narrative Biblical Theology at Somerset Christian College and writes on ecclesiology and ecumenism.
		Deborah Fikes is the Director of the Institute of Chinese Law and Religion and serves as an advisor to government leaders and international human rights organizations..
		David Gushee is the Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University.
		Mimi Haddad is president of Christians for Biblical Equality and an Adjunct Professor at North Park Theological Seminary.
		Nancy Hardesty is an author, lecturer and university professor from Greenville, South Carolina whose works focus on developing a biblical feminism.
		Lisa Sharon Harper is the director of New York Faith and Justice, an award-winning playwright, poet, and public speaker who specializes in ethnic reconciliation and human rights.
		Obery Hendricks is a Visiting Scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary, a Professor of Biblical Studies at New York Theological Seminary, and the immediate past president of Payne Theological Seminary, the oldest African American seminary in the United States.
		Bruce Herman is a painter, is the Lothlórien Distinguished Chair in the Fine Arts at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, who lectures widely and has had work published in many books, journals, and popular magazines.
		Al Hsu is an editor at InterVarsity Press, a columnist for Christianity Today, and the author of The Suburban Christian: Finding Spiritual Vitality in the Land of Plenty.
		Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr. is Senior Pastor of Hope Christian Church in Washington, DC and a leading researcher on the black church.
		David Kuo served as Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and Deputy Director of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
		Alexei Laushkin is a program assistant at the Evangelical Environmental Network, has helped staff the Evangelical Climate Initiative since 2005.
		Terry LeBlanc is the National Ministries Director for My People International, a cross-cultural leadership development ministry with Native North Americans, and has previously served with World Vision for nine years and Youth for Christ for fifteen years.
		Daisy L. Machado is Professor of the History of Christianity at Union Theological Seminary and the author of Borders and Margins: Hispanic Disciples in the Southwest, 1888-1942.
		Kathy Maskell is the U.S. Advocacy Director for Love146, an organization that toward the abolition of child sex trafficking and exploitation through prevention and aftercare.
		Michael Mata is a professor of Urban Ministries at Claremont School of Theology andhas extensive experience in urban-related programs on the congregational, ecumenical and interfaith levels.
		Terry McGonigal is Dean of the Chapel and Associate Professor of Religion at Whitworth College, and a founding member of the board of directors for the Center for Christian-Jewish Dialogue.
		Brian McLaren is an author, speaker, pastor, and networker among innovative Christian leaders, thinkers, and activists.
		Claude Nikondeha is founder of the Amahoro Africa project, which works toward developing an effective network of African leaders working together throughout Africa to further God’s Kingdom.
		Ruth Padilla DeBorst is president of the Latin American Theological Fraternity in San Salvador, El Salvador, and serves on the board of the International Justice Mission.
		Doug Pagitt is a social and theological entrepreneur and the founder of Solomon’s Porch, a holistic missional Christian community in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
		John Perkins is a civil rights leader and an international speaker and teacher on racial reconciliation, leadership and community development.
		Soong-Chan Rah is the founding Senior Pastor of Cambridge Community Fellowship. He currently is the Milton B. Engebretson Assistant Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary.
		Raymond Rivera is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Latino Pastoral Action Center, which serves the Highbridge community in New York City's South Bronx.
		Samuel Rodriguez is president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference which serves fifteen million Hispanic believers in issues of leadership, fellowship, networking, partnerships and public policy.
		Gabriel Salguero is the director of the Hispanic/Latino Leadership Program at Princeton Theological Seminary’s Center of Continuing Education and serves as a member of the Equal Employment Advisory Commission for the state of New Jersey.
		Andrew Saperstein serves as Associate Director of the Reconciliation Program at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture.
		Brenda Salter McNeil is the director of Salter McNeil & Associates, LLC, a racial and ethnic reconciliation organization based in Chicago, and is the coauthor of the The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change.
		Lara Scott is Associate Professor of Visual & Communication Arts at Eastern Mennonite University, whose goal as a teacher is "to create an environment where students will engage with the whole fabric of aesthetic, political, cultural and theological questions as they make art.”
		Samir Selmanovic is a pastor, author, and the director of Faith House Manhattan, an interfaith organization in New York.
		Ronald Sider teaches at Palmer Theological Seminary near Philadelphia, PA, and directs the ministry of Evangelicals for Social Action.
		Andrea Smith is professor of American Culture and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, and a co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence.
		Michael Smitheram is the International Coordinator for the Micah Challenge and has coordinated major campaigns for national non-government networks in Australia.
		Bowie Snodgrass is co-founder of a house church in Manhattan called Transmission, the former Web Content Editor of the Episcopal Church website, and a member of the Steering Committee for Christian Churches Together.
		The Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary believes that it is possible to end poverty – not merely manage it – and that it is not only our moral imperative to do so, but also our theological and spiritual calling, journey, and struggle.
		Adam Taylor is director of campaigns and organizing for Sojourners/Call to Renewal.
		Richard Twiss is a minister, author, speaker, and Founder and President of Wiconi International.
		Miroslav Volf serves as Director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture and is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School.
		Jim Wallis is a bestselling author, public theologian, speaker, preacher, and international commentator on religion and public life, faith and politics.
		Christian Winn is Assistant Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Bethel University in St. Paul, and the author of "Jesus is Victor!" The Significance of the Blumhardts for the Theology of Karl Barth.
		Randy Woodley is a Keetoowah Cherokee Indian descendent, ordained minister, author, teacher, theologian, poet and activist.

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