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Michael J. Mantel

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 15:20:08 GMT

Michael J. Mantel is president and CEO of Living Water International, a faith-based global humanitarian organization. He previously spent seventeen years working for World Vision and nine years in business. He holds a PhD in organization development from Benedictine University. He lives in Houston with his wife, Natalie, and they have four daughters.

Deborah Meyer Abbs

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 21:58:17 GMT

Deborah Meyer Abbs works as a freelance blogger and as a disability ministry coordinator for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in Illinois and Indiana. She is a coauthor of Life on the Spectrum: Faith. Hope. Love. Autism.

Jenny Abel

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 19:38:25 GMT

Jenny Abel is an editor and writer for Ken Boa. Having sat under Boa’s teaching since she was a teenager, she began working for him and his Reflections Ministries in 2013. She served as editor of the monthly Reflections teaching letter from 2017 until 2023. She cowrote Shaped by Suffering and A Guide to Practicing God’s Presence with Ken Boa and edited Life in the Presence of God. Owner of Jenny M. Abel Editorial Services, she holds a BS in mathematics with a concentration in Latin American studies from Furman University, is a graduate of the Focus on the Family Leadership Institute, and resides in Charlottesville, Virginia, with her husband, Ben, and their two children.

Andrew Abernethy

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:35:51 GMT

Andrew Abernethy (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College. He is the author of several books, including Eating in Isaiah (Brill, 2014), The Book of Isaiah and God's Kingdom (IVP, 2016), God's Messiah in the Old Testament (Baker, 2020), Discovering Isaiah (Eerdmans, 2021), and Savoring Scripture (IVP, 2022).

Read a conversation on Savoring Scripture with Andrew Abernethy.

Aaron Abramson

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:29:45 GMT

Aaron Abramson

Lina AbuJamra

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:59:50 GMT

Lina AbuJamra

Kristel Acevedo

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:17:14 GMT

Kristel Acevedo

Samuel V. Adams

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:27:19 GMT

Samuel V. Adams (PhD, University of St Andrews) is director of graduate studies and assistant professor of theology and social justice at Kilns College in Bend, Oregon. He previously lectured at the University of St Andrews and was the founding pastor of Bend Mennonite Church. His research currently focuses on understanding theologies of history and their relationship to theories of social action.

Gwenfair Walters Adams

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:52:36 GMT

Gwenfair Walters Adams (PhD, Cambridge) is associate professor of church history at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. She is the author of Visions in Late Medieval England: Lay Spirituality and Sacred Glimpses of the Hidden Worlds of Faith.

Steve Addison

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:45:14 GMT

Steve Addison (DMin, Fuller Theological Seminary) has a calling to fuel movements that multiply disciples and churches everywhere. He and his wife, Michelle, lead MOVE, an Australia-based mission agency dedicated to making disciples and multiplying churches around the world. Steve began his research into Christian movements in the late 1980s while serving as a church planter in Melbourne, Australia, and he is the author of Movements That Change the World: Five Keys to Spreading the Gospel, and What Jesus Started: Joining the Movement, Changing the World.

Femi B. Adeleye

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:51:28 GMT

Femi B. Adeleye (MTh, University of Edinburgh) is a Christian minister and ordained priest in the Anglican communion. He is associate general secretary for partnership and collaboration for the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES). He previously served as regional secretary for the IFES movement in English-speaking Africa. Adeleye has also been a featured speaker at the Urbana Student Missions Conference and spoke at the Cape Town 2010 Lausanne Congress. He is the author of Preachers of a Different Gospel. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in African Christian history from the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology in Ghana.

Miriam Adeney

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:07:33 GMT

Miriam Adeney (PhD, anthropology) is professor of global and urban ministries at Seattle Pacific University and teaching fellow at Regent College. She is the author of Daughters of Islam, God's Foreign Policy: Practical Ways to Help the World's Poor, A Time for Risking: Priorities for Women, and How to Write: A Christian Writer's Guide.

Bernard T. Adeney-Riskotta

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:53:38 GMT

Bernard T. Adeney-Riskotta has taught theology and ethics at New College Berkeley and currently teaches at Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana in Java, Indonesia. He has been highly involved in evangelical and ecumenical endeavors and has served as coconvener of the American Academy of Religion's Group on Religion, Peace, and War.

Joe Aguirre

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:31:36 GMT

Joe Aguirre is editor in chief at Reasons to Believe, an organization in the Los Angeles area that spreads the gospel by demonstrating that sound reason and scientific research—including the very latest discoveries—consistently support, rather than erode, confidence in the truth of the Bible and faith in the personal, transcendent God revealed in both Scripture and nature.

Read some of Aguirre's work at Reasons to Believe.

Jared E. Alcántara

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:26:59 GMT

Jared E. Alcántara (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is associate professor of preaching at Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary in Waco, Texas. An ordained Baptist minister, he has served as a youth pastor, associate pastor, and teaching pastor in Illinois, Massachusetts, Oregon, and New Jersey.

Prior to Truett, he served as an adjunct instructor at Gordon-Conwell's Hispanic Ministries Program in New York City, as a doctoral teaching fellow in homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary, and from 2014-18, he was an associate professor of homiletics at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. Alcántara's teaching and research is in homiletics, with interests in global south preaching, cultural and intercultural engagement, and the role of race and ethnicity in preaching, especially in Latino/a and African American contexts. He lives in the Waco area with his wife, Jennifer, and their three daughters.

T. Desmond Alexander

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:51:28 GMT

T. Desmond Alexander (PhD, The Queen's University of Belfast) is senior lecturer in biblical studies and director of postgraduate studies at Union Theological College in Belfast, Northern Ireland. From 1980 to 1999, he was lecturer in Semitic studies at the Queen's University of Belfast. His main field of research is the Pentateuch, about which he has written extensively in academic journals and books.

Alexander also has a special interest in the relationship between the Old and New Testaments. He is the author of From Paradise to the Promised Land: An Introduction to the Main Themes of the Pentateuch, Abraham in the Negev, and The City of God and the Goal of Creation. He is a coeditor (with Brian S. Rosner) of the New Dictionary of Biblical Theology.

Estrelda Y. Alexander

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:19:00 GMT

Estrelda Alexander (PhD, The Catholic University of America) is a visiting professor of theology in the School of Divinity at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and executive director of the William Seymour Educational Foundation.

Claude R. Alexander Jr.

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 21:52:45 GMT

Bishop Claude R. Alexander Jr. is senior pastor of The Park Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. He serves on the board of Christianity Today, Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and Movement.org. He is the chair of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary's board of trustees and a past president of the Hampton University Ministers Conference, and previously served on the board of Mission America Coaltion.

A leader among both Christian and civic organizations, Bishop Alexander has consistently been listed among the most influential persons in Charlotte, North Carolina, working with government and community officials to address the community's most critical issues. He holds a BA in philosophy from Morehouse College, an MDiv from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and a DMin from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Kimberly, have two daughters.

Nathan F. Alleman

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:23:09 GMT

Nathan F. Alleman (PhD, The College of William and Mary) is associate professor of higher education studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Alleman studies and teaches about marginal and marginalized groups and institutions in higher education. His research includes sociological studies of faculty sub-groups (non-tenure track, faculty denied tenure, and religious outsiders) and the collegiate identities and experiences of student sub-groups (rural, first generation, undocumented, community college, religious minority, and food insecure). Alleman also writes about Christian higher education and the history of the YMCA student association movement.

Michael Allen

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:06:45 GMT

Michael Allen (PhD, Wheaton College) is associate professor of systematic and historical theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. He is the author of several books, including Justification and the Gospel: Understanding the Contexts and Controversies, Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics: An Introduction and Reader, Reformed Theology and The Christ’s Faith: A Dogmatic Account. He is also the coauthor, with Scott Swain, of Reformed Catholicity: The Promise of Retrieval for Theology and Biblical Interpretation.