A.J. Swoboda
Dr. A. J. Swoboda is a professor, author, and pastor of Theophilus in urban Portland, Oregon. He teaches theology, biblical studies, and Christian history at George Fox Evangelical and Fuller Seminaries. He is the founder and director of Blessed Earth Northwest, a center that helps think creatively and strategically around creation care issues in the Pacific Northwest. A.J. is the author of "The Dusty Ones," "Tongues and Trees: Toward a Pentecostal Ecological Theology," and "Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology." You can find his website and blog at www.ajswoboda.com, or follow him on Twitter @mrajswoboda.
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Allison McCready
Allison grew up on the Olympic Peninsula as the daughter of a National Park Ranger father and Social Worker mother, who taught her to love both nature and people with a passion. She currently lives in Vancouver, Washington, where she and her husband host frequent gatherings of Christ-seeking college students and provide sanctuary to travelers of all kinds. She holds a BA in Political Science from Western Washington University and a Masters in International Community Development from Northwest University, and is an adjunct faculty member at Lower Columbia College.
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Allyson Darakjian
Allyson Darakjian is a visual artist and theologian who is passionate about shepherding creatives in the church. She primarily works in mixed media/collage but spends lots of her creative energy dialoguing with other artists about the creative process. She has a MA in Theology and Culture from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. She and her husband live in Seattle near Green Lake, which is Allyson’s second favorite thing about the Pacific Northwest after all the fantastic craft breweries popping up everywhere. Allyson is excited to be part of the Institute serving the needs of the local church in Cascadia.
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Alycia Scheidel
Alycia Scheidel is a writer and wildlife photographer based out of Duvall, Washington. In 2019, she completed her MA in International Community Development at Northwest University, focusing on the psychology of human prejudice and the dismantling of systemic racism. She is currently focusing her time and energies on capturing the beauty of the natural world through photography and poetry. Her photo prints can be found for sale on her website: alyrenscapes.squarespace.com
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Anderson Campbell
Dr. R. Anderson Campbell is Assistant Professor of Christian Studies at George Fox University. When he’s not pulling blackberry vines you can find him talking about metaphor and Christian formation to anyone who will listen.
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Annie Mesaros
Annie Mesaros is a Seattle native and lover of words. She spends quite a bit of her time contracting as a writer and fundraiser and is constantly mystified by the many ways God is at work in and around us all the time. Annie spends the rest of her time enjoying the great outdoors and delicious meals with friends and family.
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Boni Piper & Agnes Kioko
Agnes Kioko is an accomplished, optimistic leader. She works closely with women and girls to help in poverty eradication. Through her work at Path From Poverty, Agnes has seen first hand that empowering women and girls can bring transformational improvement in the health and prosperity of families, communities, and societies. Agnes believes in team effectiveness, realism, and humanism. She is always goal oriented. Agnes lives in Kenya with her husband and two children. Boni Piper is the President of the Board of Directors of Path From Poverty, a Christian non-profit based in Seattle and presently working in Kenya. She has degrees from Geneva College, Seattle Pacific University, and Reformed Presbyterian Seminary where she completed a year long Mission Training course. Boni believes that mutuality, coauthority, and deep respect for each other is crucial for effective, life-giving mission work. The beautiful result is deep friendship and mutual empowerment. She is the mother of three grown children and lives with her husband in the Seattle area.
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Brandon Rhodes
Brandon D. Rhodes (D.Min) is a grassroots scholar and small business owner in Lents, Oregon. He shares life in Christ there with Springwater, an Anabaptist parish church. Brandon writes for a variety of periodicals, including Christianity Today, PRISM, the Parish Collective, and JesusRadicals.com. He has contributed to several books, including The Intentional Christian Community Handbook. Brandon's first book, Blip: The Making and Unmaking of the Petrol-Driven Church, will be published by Wipf & Stock in 2015. He is a lifelong Oregonian.
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Brian Humphreys
Brian Humphreys is a community and economic development addict. He manages the Human Services department for the City of Lakewood, is adjunct faculty for the International Community Development program at Northwest University and the International Programs department at Tacoma Community College, and he runs a small initiative to build community among at-risk fathers in Tacoma called Just Dads. Brian is also earning a Doctorate of Ministry in Semiotics, Church and Culture at George Fox University where he is researching how to equip the church to address economic inequality more effectively. He is also a part-time stay-at-home dad who is working really hard to be fully present with his three young children.
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Center for Transforming Engagement
Christ & Cascadia is a component of the Center for Transforming Engagement, which goes beyond traditional leadership training to cultivate resilience in the midst of changing social and cultural contexts. Our offerings equip leaders and teams to (re)build communities of resilience, belonging, and regenerativity. We work with congregations and organizations to live with faith, hope and love while applying the tools of the social sciences to rebuild trust in institutions. Through trainings, workshops, courses, and online resources, we embolden leaders of all types and stages to transform their service of God and neighbor – and in the process, to be transformed.
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Chap Clark
Chapman “Chap” Clark is associate provost for strategic projects and professor and chair of the Youth, Family, and Culture Department in the School of Theology at Fuller Seminary. Chap created and directs Fuller’s master’s level and Doctor of Ministry programs in Youth, Family, and Culture. A well-known practitioner, adolescent and family scholar, and author, Clark has more than 30 years of experience in direct ministry, including 15 years with Young Life, as well as positions with several churches, Denver Seminary, Youth Specialties, and as senior editor of Youthworker Journal. He is currently on the teaching team of Harbor Christian Center in Gig Harbor, Washington, is president of ParenTeen and Harbor Hope Services, and continues to work closely with Young Life. Clark’s extensive publications of books, articles, and videos focus primarily on relationships.
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Charlie Scalise
Charles Scalise primarily teaches history and theology at the Fuller Seminary Northwest campus as a resident faculty member. He has been a member of the Church History Department and the Theology Division of Fuller’s School of Theology since 1994 and also supervises doctoral students for the School of Theology’s Center for Advanced Theological Studies. Scalise’s publications include Bridging the Gap: Connecting What You Learned in Seminary with What You Find in the Congregation (2003), From Scripture to Theology (1996), and Hermeneutics as Theological Prolegomena (1994), as well as a number of articles and book reviews.
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Cherice Bock
Cherice Bock is a native Oregonian. Along with her spouse and their two sons, she enjoys biking, reading, and spending time outside. Cherice currently teaches at George Fox University and its seminary, and serves as the community garden coordinator. She holds an MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary, and is working on a PhD in Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England. She blogs for the environmental studies journal Whole Terrain: http://wholeterrain.com/
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Chris Lim
Chris Lim is an ex-Amazon engineer who convened a group at the company to study the theology of technology. This group eventually compared Amazon leadership principles with Scripture making the case for how Christians can succeed in the Amazon corporate culture. Today Chris leads TheoTech, a company activating a movement of Technology Entrepreneurship for the Gospel. This means beginning with God as the Customer and working backwards to create the things He desires to see in the world. Chris loves seeing the implications of a thoughtful theology of technology worked out in real world products that transform people's lives and give them a foretaste of God's Kingdom. You can connect with him on twitter @meritandgrace, his blog www.meritandgrace.com or listen to the Theotech podcast at www.theotech.org.
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Chris Nye
Chris Nye is an associate pastor at Willamette Christian Church and author of "Distant God: Why He Feels Far Away and What We Can Do About It."
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Christ & Cascadia
Christ & Cascadia fosters conversations about the opportunities and challenges facing the Christian faith in “Cascadia” (SE Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and parts of Western Montana and Northern California). Through our online journal, we foster the exchange of ideas and best practices among Christ followers—to explore, imagine, and create the future of Christianity in Cascadia.
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Christopher James
Dr. Christopher B. James is Assistant Professor of Evangelism and Missional Christianity at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, where he also directs the Master of Arts in Mission and Discipleship degree. His research and teaching focus on missional engagement with contemporary Western contexts. He holds a PhD in Practical Theology from Boston University School of Theology,and an MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary. He is author of Church Planting in Post-Christian Soil, a study of ecclesiology and missiology among church plants in Seattle, WA. Christopher can be found online at chrisbjames.com, and @chrisbjames.
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Christy Tennant Krispin
Christy Tennant Krispin is a writer, actor, musician, and speaker whose main areas of focus are theology, leadership, and the arts. Learn more at www.christytennant.com.
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Chuck Bomar
Chuck Bomar is the pastor of Colossae Church in Tigard, Oregon. He has written 10 books, including the forthcoming, "Serving Local Schools." Chuck and his wife, Barbara, have three daughters: Karis, Hope, and Sayla.
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Constance Rice
Constance Rice has been a college academic for over thirty years, and is an expert in the work and life of C.S. Lewis. She has a BA from Chico State University, a masters from Tennessee State, and completed doctoral coursework in Communication at Regent University. Constance is the mother of three and the grandmother of seven children. She has worked in pastoral care, and most recently founded Cathedral Arts Ministries with her husband Dan.
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Corey Greaves
Corey Greaves is Blackfeet, Klickitat, and Irish and lives on the Yakama Reservation in Washington State. He’s the president and cofounder of Mending Wings, a Native American, nonprofit youth organization. Corey desires to see Native youth and families restored to wholeness by the strength of Yeshua, and he seeks to bring reconciliation between the Body of Christ and Native people by addressing real issues, both historical and contemporary. He and his wife, Gina, have four children: Steven, Kathleen, Carissa, and Matea.
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Courtney Christenson
Courtney Christenson is a writer, activist, and founder of Sparks & Matches—an organization that helps women embrace and leverage their power as social changemakers. She lives in Bend, Oregon with her husband and two daughters where they adventure often, seek intentionality and explore what it means to live and love well.
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Cynthia Moe Lobeda
Cynthia Moe-Lobeda is Professor of Theological and Social Ethics at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Her most recent book, Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation (Fortress, 2013), won a Nautilus Award for social justice. She has lectured or consulted in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America in matters of social and ecological justice as related to faith.
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Dale Soden
Dale is a Professor of History at Whitworth University. He holds a BA from Pacific Lutheran University and an MA/PhD from the University of Washington. He has written books like "The Reverend Mark Matthews: Activist in the Progressive Era," and numerous scholarly articles on religion and public life in the Pacific Northwest.
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Dave Hillis
Dave Hillis is a thirty-two year resident of Tacoma. He has worked for organizations like Young Life, Northwest Leadership Foundation, and Leadership Foundation. Dave received his MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary and his DMin from Bakke Graduate University. He is deeply committed to the welfare of urban centers like Tacoma. Dave and his wife of thirty-three years, Teresa, are faithful members of St. Leo Parish in Tacoma.
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David Leong
Dr. David Leong is Associate Professor of Missiology at Seattle Pacific University and Seminary. David and his family live, serve, and worship in Seattle’s beautifully diverse Rainier Valley, where they enjoy parks, pho, and hipster-watching.
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David Warkentin
David Warkentin has spent his whole life in the Vancouver area and is currently on faculty at Columbia Bible College (Abbotsford, BC), where he teaches in the area of theology and culture. David did an MA in Christianity and Culture at Regent College, researching the impact of individualism on religious communities. He lives in Abbotsford with his wife and two children where they are lay leaders in a multicultural church.
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Doug Thorpe
Doug Thorpe is Professor of Literature at Seattle Pacific University. He is the author of three books and has also written for a variety of journals, including The Christian Century, Sojourners, and Parabola. Doug is an active member at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle.
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Dr. J. Derek McNeil
Dr. J. Derek McNeil was named the fourth president of The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology in 2019. He joined the leadership team at The Seattle School in 2009 as Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs. Dr. McNeil has a PhD in Counseling Psychology from Northwestern University and an MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary. Prior to his tenure at The Seattle School, Dr. McNeil served as faculty in the PsyD program at Wheaton College Graduate School for over 15 years. As President, Dr. McNeil is excited that The Seattle School has taken on the responsibility of stewarding Christ & Cascadia and he looks forward to the flourishing partnerships that will emerge from this community.
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Drew Dyck
Drew is the senior editor of Leadership Journal, a Christianity Today publication for church leaders. He is also the author of "Generation Ex-Christian: Why Young Adults Are Leaving the Church…and how to Bring Them Back." and "Yawning at Tigers: You Can’t Tame God, So Stop Trying." His work has appeared in numerous publications, including USA Today, CNN.com, The Huffington Post, Christianity Today, Books & Culture, and Relevant magazine.
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Elise Stephens
Elise Stephens uses adventure and mystery in her fiction to set stages for provocative questions. She is a 2018 Writers of the Future winner, the author of three novels, and has studied under Orson Scott Card. Her nonfiction has appeared in SheKnows, Boundless, and LovingYou. Her fiction explores themes of beauty within imperfection and finding purpose after a great loss. www.EliseStephens.com
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Ellie Bosworth
Residing in Seattle, WA, visual artist theologian Ellie Bosworth has been creating since toddlerhood. Self-taught, she plays with various mediums including textile, sculpture, ink, and watercolor—exploring the tension between the fixed and permeable. She is drawn to vulnerable corporeal experiences interacting with and informing relational theology. Ellie is interested in translating the language bodies hold into the tangible form of visual art. Ellie holds an MA in Theology & Culture, Imagination and the Arts from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. Her work has been featured in art and theology journal, Thin Space, literary magazine, Lit, and in the "Theology of Remembering" student exhibition.
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Emily Nelson Lewis
Emily Nelson Lewis is a hospitality artist committed to building community through the breaking of bread. As head chapter leader of Make America Dinner Again (Seattle) and Program Director at Brehm Cascadia, she is passionate about empowering, educating, and equipping local communities to lead the way in the art of hospitality. Emily also hosts the Seattle chapter of the Healthy Democracy Coalition through NEXUS Global, where she fosters relationships between the philanthropic community and local allies. Thai food, Beyoncé, felt hats, and the book "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl are just a few of her favorite things.
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Eric Atcheson
Eric Atcheson is the pastor of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Longview, Washington. Read more of his writing at revericatcheson.blogspot.com
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Eric Jacobsen
Eric Jacobsen is the author of two books, as well as numerous articles exploring the intersection between Christianity and human community. He is the Senior Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Tacoma where he lives with his wife and four children. Eric received his doctorate from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2008.
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Forrest Inslee
Dr. Forrest Inslee was born and raised in Seattle. After a number of years living in Chicago, British Columbia, and Istanbul, he returned to Pacific Northwest with his adopted daughter to start a graduate program in International Community Development at Northwest University, where he currently teaches. In his role as Associate Director of Circlewood, a faith-based environmental advocacy nonprofit, he hosts the Earthkeepers podcast, and helps to develop creation care education initiatives for schools and churches.
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Geordie Ziegler
Geordie is theologian, writer, and Presbyterian minister with a PhD from the University of Aberdeen. He and his wife Sharon have been married over 30 years and have three young adult children. Geordie served as a pastor for nearly 20 years and now works part-time as a chaplain at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, WA. While earning his M.Div. at Regent College, he studied under Eugene Peterson and discovered the Trinitarian theology of T.F. Torrance. Geordie developed a passion for the church to recover a Trinitarian vision of the Christian life and authored Trinitarian Grace and Participation: an entry into the Theology of T.F. Torrance (Fortress, 2017). You can find him at https://surprisedbygrace.com/.
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Graham McMahon
Graham McMahon has spent his entire life in South West British Columbia and currently resides in Chilliwack, B.C. where he leads a neighborhood-based church plant with his wife and three children. Graham has served as a pastor in the Church of the Nazarene for fourteen years and in his current role for five years. Recently he graduated with an MRE in Missional Leadership from Rochester College. You can follow Graham on Twitter at @GrahaMacMan.
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Hillary Haden
Hillary Haden is the Executive Director at the Washington Fair Trade Coalition where she works with their 70 member organizations to achieve a trade policy that favors people and the planet. Her research and work focus on collective ways of thinking about economics and building community power to achieve a fairer economic system. When she's off the clock, she enjoys the PNW's beautiful trails, making her own homemade pasta, and spending time with her dog, Scout.
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Jacqueline Dewar
Jacqueline Dewar has been working with Jacob’s Well since 2014, a ministry in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside that focuses on mutually transformative friendship with people on the margins of society and equips others to do the same in their own context. She also co-leads the Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor Vancouver field-team, a like-minded community down the road. Jacqueline holds an M.A. in Theological Studies with a Concentration in World Christianity from Regent College.
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James Amadon
James Amadon lives with his wife, Emily, and their three children in the Cedar River Watershed as a resident of Redmond, WA. He is the Executive Director of Circlewood, a community cultivating a regenerative way of life that brings healing and hope to people and the planet. He is also the Executive Producer of the Earthkeepers podcast. You can find out more about both at www.circlewood.online.
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James Wellman
James Wellman is Professor and Chair of the Comparative Religion Program in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. His areas of expertise are in American religious culture, history, and politics. Wellman has published several award-winning books, including "The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto: Christ and Culture in Mainline Protestantism" and "Evangelical vs. Liberal: The Clash of Christian Cultures in the Pacific Northwest." He recently published "Rob Bell and the New American Christianity" and "High on God: How the Megachurch Conquered America." Wellman can be followed on Twitter at wellman4444, and reached on his author Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/JamesKWellman. He is now a regular blogger for Patheos.com and can be read at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jameswellman/.
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Jason Brown
Jason M. Brown, PhD has studied anthropology, forestry and theology. His PhD from the University of British Columbia is in Resources, Environment and Sustainability. He is a Sessional Instructor at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. He is also a Joint Research Associate for the The Faculty of Forestry and W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia. He is a member of and server for St. James Anglican Church in Vancouver, BC. You can find more of Jason's writings on his website, www.holyscapes.org, or his blog, www.patheos.com/blogs/holyscapes/ .
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Jeff Johnson
Jeff Johnson is a professional musician who lives on Camano Island, Washington. His art spans a diversity of styles including Progressive Rock, Jazz, New Age, and Contemplative Worship. In his career thus far, Jeff has written music for a Martin Scorsese film, collaborated with great musicians like Brian Dunning and Phil Keaggy, and recorded original music for the Wyndham Hill label. His works also include collaborations with contemporary author Stephen Lawhead. In addition to recording, Johnson is active in the ongoing Selah Service music and worship events.
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Jeff Keuss
Jeffrey F. Keuss, is a professor at Seattle Pacific University. He teaches courses in Theology and Culture, Christian Formation, and Educational Ministry. Jeff is also an author, ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), and North American General Editor for the journal Literature and Theology (Oxford University Press). He and his wife Diana have 3 wonderful daughters and a very lovable Chocolate Lab named Seamus.
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Jeffrey Overstreet
Jeffrey Overstreet is the author of a "Through a Screen Darkly", a memoir of dangerous moviegoing published by Regal Books, as well as "The Auralia Thread", a four-novel fantasy series that begins with "Auralia's Colors", published by Random House. He blogs at lookingcloser.org, and frequently lectures and leads workshops on film studies, creative writing, and the Christian imagination. He works full-time as a communications specialist at Seattle Pacific University, and in 2013 was Writer-in-Residence at Covenant College. He is earning his MFA in Creative Writing at SPU.
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Jennie Spohr
Rev. Jennie L. Spohr writes historical fiction. Her newest novel, "Heirs & Spares," set during the European Reformation, garnered rave reviews. When not writing, she produces The Kindlings Muse, the Seattle-based podcast on ideas that matter in culture. She is a pastor with the PCUSA and lives with her brood in the Montlake neighborhood of Seattle.
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Joel Kiekintveld
Joel Kiekintveld (PhD) lives, works, learns, and plays in Anchorage, Alaska with his wife, Stacey, and their family. He is the Co-Director of the Anchorage Urban Training Collaborative (anchorageutc.org), the host of the AnchorEd City Podcast (anchoredcity.podbean.com), an Adjunct professor at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, and a member of the Christian spiritual community Reclaim (www.akreclaim.org).
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John Knox
Dr. John S. Knox is an assistant professor of biblical studies at George Fox University in Newberg, OR. He has taught on the Bible, Church History, and Religion for over a decade in traditional and online environments. He recently wrote a Christian History fiction novel called The Letter of Alon. He and his wife, Brenda, have been married for 22 years, and have two amazing boys.
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John Stackhouse
John Stackhouse is the Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology and Culture at Regent College. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and wrote "Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century." His most recent book is “Need to Know: Vocation as the Heart of Christian Epistemology,” and he blogs at johnstackhouse.com, tweets as @jgsphd.
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Jon DeWaal
Jon serves as the Founder and Life Transition Guide at Liminal Space (inaliminalspace.org), a practice dedicated to changing the way individuals and organizations embrace life’s most turbulent and formative transitions. Jon’s work focus is to create unique experiences that artfully build resilience, foster discovery, and invite courage for the journey ahead. He lives in Edmonds, WA with his wife, Annie, and three sons.
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Julia Stronks
Julia joined Whitworth Faculty in 1994. She is a graduate of Dordt College, and earned her JD from the University of Iowa College of Law and her PhD from the University of Maryland. Julia directed both Whitworth's initiative to serve homeless youth in Spokane and the Lives of Commitment Program. A regular contributor of op-ed pieces for The Seattle Times and The Spokesman-Review, Stronks has also authored several books.
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Justin Tse
Justin K.H. Tse (謝堅恆) is Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Previously, he taught religious studies at the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies in Seattle, WA, and human geography at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C.
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Karen Hefford
When Karen isn’t immersed in theological studies at Regent College, she can be found teaching yoga at various studios around Vancouver or singing about environmental sustainability in a folk trio. Karen is passionate about Vancouver’s social and ecological wellbeing, and the diverse ways that spirituality is expressed in this beautiful region.
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Katharine Hayhoe
In addition to serving as Chief Scientist for TNC, Katharine Hayhoe is the Endowed Professor in Public Policy and Public Law and Paul W. Horn Distinguished Professor at Texas Tech University. She served as a lead author for the Second, Third, and Fourth US National Climate Assessment and hosts the PBS digital series Global Weirding. She is the Climate Ambassador for the World Evangelical Alliance and has been named one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People,” Fortune’s “50 Greatest Leaders,” and Foreign Policy’s “100 Leading Global Thinkers.”
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Katherine Douglass
Katherine M. Douglass is a professor of Christian ministry at Seattle Pacific University and directs The Confirmation Project at Princeton Theological Seminary. She is an ordained minister in the PC(USA) and served as a youth minister for The American Protestant Church: An International Congregation in Bonn, Germany. She enjoys the great outdoors living in Seattle with her husband John and their three boys.
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Kevin Palau
Kevin Palau is president of the Luis Palau Association, a Portland, Oregon based ministry that has shared the Good News of Jesus Christ with more than 1 billion people worldwide. In 2008, Kevin helped develop a massive, area-wide initiative in Portland, Oregon known as CityServe. Kevin is nationally recognized as a key leader for sustainable citywide movements that bring civic, government, and church leadership together. Despite having graduated from Wheaton College, Kevin is a huge University of Oregon fan. He and his wife, Michelle, have three children and live in Beaverton, Oregon.
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Kevin Parker
Rep. Kevin Parker is serving his fourth term representing the 6 th Legislative District, which includes part of Spokane, Cheney, Medical Lake and Airway Heights. Kevin is an entrepreneur who manages 80 employees at his six coffee shops and teaches in the Whitworth University and Gonzaga University MBA programs. He lives in Spokane with his wife, Kerry, and their three children.
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Kimberly Crispeno
Kimberly Crispeno lives with her husband and two boys in Edmonds, WA where she shuttles between soccer, ice hockey and, with a daughter in college, Los Angeles. She sometimes manages to find her way to church since she serves as a pastor at Calvin Presbyterian Church in Shoreline. On a good day, you might find her gardening, thrifting, antiquing, reading, writing, drawing, or cursing the impulse that took her to spinning class.
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Kris Rocke
Kris Rocke is the Executive Director of Street Psalms, an international organization dedicated to training incarnational leaders for urban contexts. He lives with his wife, Lana, and their two sons Grant and Mitchell in Tacoma. He has served in urban ministry since 1985 and was the founding director of Street Psalms. He earned a B.A. in English at Pacific Lutheran University, an M.Div. at Palmer Theological Seminary, and a D.Min. in Transformational Leadership for the Global City from Bakke Graduate University.
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Kristen Daley Mosier
Kristen Daley Mosier is a PhD candidate in Theology and Ethics at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. A resident of the Cedar River watershed in Western Washington, her current research explores the tributaries of deep incarnation, ecofeminism, and political ecology as they merge to articulate a decolonial rendering of baptismal theology. She is also a member of and lay preacher at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Seattle. Periodically she gets around to posting sermons and musings at sermonsandbox.blog.
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Lauren Pattie
Lauren is the executive assistant to President Dr. J. Derek McNeil at The Seattle School. Aside from being an administration professional, Lauren is also an editor and writer. She is the managing editor of Christ & Cascadia and also preaches at her church, First Covenant Church Seattle. All of these afford her the opportunity to combine her passions for theology and writing. Lauren has a Master of Arts in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. She loves to stay active by exploring the Northwest’s natural beauty, playing ultimate frisbee, and checking out local dog parks with her dog, Artemis.
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Laurie Klein
Laurie Klein is the author of a poetry collection, "Where the Sky Opens," and a chapbook, "Bodies of Water, Bodies of Flesh." Her prose has appeared in Brevity, New Letters, Tiferet, Saint Katherine Review, The Windhover, Relief, and other journals. Winner of the Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry and a recent finalist in Terrain's poetry contest, she writes from the countryside near Spokane, Washington.
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Leah Kostamo
Leah is co-founder of A Rocha, Canada. She lives and thrives with her family on Kingfisher Farm in Surrey, BC. In her role as Spiritual Care Coordinator Leah provides mentorship and spiritual direction to staff, visitors and interns at A Rocha’s Brooksdale Environmental Centre. Her training in spiritual formation and direction has come from her studies at Regent College, experience in campus chaplaincy, and completion of a three-year certificate program with the Academy of Spiritual Formation and Direction out of Portland, OR. She is the author of Planted: A Story of Creation, Calling, and Community.
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Lenae Nofziger
Lenae Nofziger is a writer and teacher. She grew up in Oklahoma with frequent forays to Alaska and always knew she was most at home in the Pacific Northwest. She came to Seattle as a volunteer with Mennonite Voluntary Service and worked for several environmental nonprofits before earning an MFA at Eastern Washington University. Now an English professor at Northwest University, she teaches classes in creative writing, children’s literature, and fairy tales. She attends Seattle Mennonite Church. You can find more about her and her work at LenaeNofziger.com.
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Lisa DeRosa
Lisa DeRosa is an administrative assistant for Tom and Christine Sine of Newchangemakers.com and Godspacelight.com. With most of her work experience in the admin realm, she enjoys organizing and assisting others to lighten their load regarding all things administrative. She and her husband, Daniel, live in Seattle, WA. Along with gardening and cooking, she enjoys searching for her next read in the little libraries sprinkled throughout her nearby neighborhoods.
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Lisa Graham McKinn
Lisa Graham McMinn, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology and Writer in Residence at George Fox University. She and her husband Mark live on Fern Creek, a small CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm outside of Newberg, Oregon, where they tend chickens and bees and grow food for 22 families.
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Lucy S.R. Austen
Lucy S. R. Austen is a freelance writer and editor who has lived most of her life in the Pacific Northwest. A graduate of the University of Washington, she has worked as editor of Spring Hill Review, a journal of Northwest culture. She is currently at work on a full-length biography of Elisabeth Elliot. You can connect with Lucy through her website at lucysrausten.com.
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Luke Cirillo
Luke and his wife Allison own a little farm in Oregon City, Oregon, called Out of Ashes. They design food-producing ecosystems, grow food, teach classes, and spend time with pigs daily.
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Lynne Baab
Lynne M. Baab, PhD, is a Presbyterian minister and the author of numerous books, most recently "Nurturing Hope: Christian Pastoral Care in the Twenty-first Century." She is based in Seattle and blogs weekly at lynnebaab.com.
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Lynne Blessing
Lynne Faris Blessing serves as Pastor for Outreach at Bethany Presbyterian Church in Seattle. Since the summer 1987 when she got to know the wonderful people of The Mendenhall Ministries in MS, she has found great joy in participating in God's ministry of reconciliation and Christian Community Development. She also loves exploring the beautiful Northwest with her husband and two young children.
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Maria-Jose Soerens
Maria-José Soerens, MA, is a graduate student at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, UK, where she conducts research on the religious narratives of suffering of undocumented women. She is the founding executive director of Puentes: Advocacy, Counseling & Education, a nonprofit devoted to walk with undocumented migrants and their families by mobilizing mental health resources. She organizes for the Evangelical Immigration Table, and currently teaches at the MA in Theological Studies at Centro de Estudios Teologicos Interdisicplinarios. Maria-Jose migrated from Chile and lives with her husband Tim and their son in Seattle.
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Marisa Gronholz
Marisa received her MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary. She was born and raised in the Chicago area but moved to Seattle as a high-school student when her parents were called to a church in Bellevue. Growing up as a pastor’s daughter gave her several opportunities to use her gifts of singing, writing, and speaking, as well as a deep heart for pastoral ministry, a desire to see people live into their gifts and into the abundant life that Jesus offers. Marisa currently resides in Seattle with her husband Scott—a youth pastor, their two children, and a notoriously ill-behaved dog named Dodger.
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Marty Folsom
Marty Folsom, PhD is the Executive Director of the Pacific Association for Theological Studies (USA). He maintains a private Marriage and Family Counseling practice and teaches theology in the Seattle area. His theological interests include Relational Theology, Trinitarian Theology, Theological Anthropology, and many more. He is forming a theological neighborhood in the Pacific Northwest called the Northwest Theological Collaboration, including all the theological schools in WA, OR, ID, and BC. Marty has two books published in his Face-to-Face trilogy. He has published in CRUX (Regent College) and other journals. He is the curator of Inscape Art Gallery in Redmond, Washington, featuring Northwest artists. Marty resides in Snohomish Washington with his wife Cindy.
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Mary DeJong
Mary DeJong is a spiritual ecologist, ecotheologian, urban naturalist, and practitioner and guide of place-based pilgrimage. She specializes in the spiritual companionship of “rewilding;” offers online virtual courses, retreats and pilgrimages in the Pacific Northwest and in Iona, Scotland that strengthen the unique and mystical interconnection of participants, the sacred, and the natural world. Mary lives upon the unceded lands of the Duwamish people, in present-day Seattle, Washington, with her husband, four children, St. Findus (a feral kitty), and a flock of chickens, within a Certified Wildlife Habitat medicinal and herb garden.
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Matt Ingalls
Matt Ingalls is the pastor of River Street Church of God in Newberg, OR. He’s a graduate of George Fox Evangelical Seminary and in love with the Church, running, history, Abigail, and Elliot. You can read his blog at riverstreetgodblog.blogspot.com.
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Matt Overton
The Rev. Matt Overton is an associate pastor at Columbia Presbyterian Church in Vancouver, WA, and the Executive Director of the Columbia Future Forge. He is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary with over 20 years of youth ministry experience. Matt writes about innovation and social enterprise as they relate to working with teenagers in the 21st century, and his innovative model for student ministry has been featured in several publications.
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Matthew Whitney
Matthew Whitney is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and pedestrian. Matthew lives and works in Seattle, Washington, and enjoys going for walks with his family.
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Melanie Mock
Melanie Springer Mock is a Professor of English at George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon. She is the author or co-author of four books including, most recently, "If Eve Only Knew: Freeing Yourself from Biblical Womanhood and Becoming All God Means for You to Be." Her essays and reviews have appeared in The Nation, Christian Feminism Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Mennonite World Review, among other places. She blogs about (and deconstructs) images of women embedded in evangelical popular culture at aintiawomanblog.net.
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Nicki Lang
After retiring from over a decade of creating with leather, Nicki Lang picked up the palette knife and hasn’t looked back. Nicki captures iconic northwest landscapes with bold strokes and a fresh eye. Her unique palette knife work brings sculptural depth to each piece. With a background in the natural sciences, Nicki’s attention to detail grounds her work in time and place. When she is not painting, Nicki can be found writing, playing the banjo, or spending time outside with her husband, two boys, and goofy dog, Lupinella. Nicki lives in a co-housing community in Bellingham, Washington. You can find her art and writing at www.nickilang.com.
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Paul Louis Metzger
Paul Louis Metzger is Professor of Christian Theology and Theology of Culture at Multnomah Biblical Seminary where he also directs The Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins. He serves as the editor of Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture. Paul has authored several books. He blogs regularly at Uncommon God, Common Good for Patheos and The Christian Post. http://new-wineskins.org/ http://new-wineskins.org/journal/
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Paul Pastor
Paul J. Pastor is a writer and editor living in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge. He’s the author of "The Face of the Deep: Exploring the Mysterious Person of the Holy Spirit."
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Phillip Lewis
Phillip Lewis is a graduate of the University of Washington. He serves as the Associate Student Director at Quest Church in Seattle. Phillip is always excited to drink coffee, read new books, and meet new people. He is committed and passionate about seeing students in the Seattle area come to know Jesus in an intimate and compelling way through the art of teaching and storytelling.
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Randy Woodley
Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley is an activist, scholar, author, teacher, wisdom-keeper, and Cherokee descendant, recognized by the Keetoowah Band, who speaks on justice, faith, the Earth, and Indigenous realities. He is the author of numerous books, including "Shalom and the Community of Creation," "Living in Color," and "Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth." He and his wife, Edith, co-sustain Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice and Eloheh Farm & Seeds outside Portland, Oregon.
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Rhonda McEwen
Rhonda serves on faculty at Regent College, a graduate school of theology on the campus of UBC in Vancouver, Canada. In addition to her role as Associate Professor of Education and Culture, she also directs Regent Exchange—an educational initiative which partners with churches in an exploration of Christian vocation and the common good: https://www.regent-college.edu/exchange
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Rich Erickson
Rich Erickson serves as associate professor of New Testament for Fuller Online and at Fuller Seminary Northwest in Seattle, Washington. A faculty member since 1984, he played an active role in the development of Fuller's first off-campus cohort-based MDiv program. In the fall of 2010, he received a Kern Family Foundation grant for developing online curriculum at Fuller.
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Richard Dahlstrom
Richard Dahlstrom is a pastor at Bethany Community Church in Seattle, and author of "The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice, and Intimacy."
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Robert Richards
Robert Richards served as president and CEO of The Commerce Bank corporation in Seattle. He is author of “God and Business” and “Closing the Sunday-Monday Gap.” He served on the faculty of Whitman College and lectures in economics at the University of Washington. He is currently a director of The Commerce Bank of Washington, Pacific Wealth Advisors, SkoFlo Industries and the Economic Policy Research Council of the University of Washington. Robert and Marilyn Richards live in North Bend, Washington.
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Ryan Rodin
Ryan Rodin is the Development Director for Peak 7 Adventures, based in their Spokane headquarters. After graduating from Whitworth University in 2008 with a B.A. in Political Science, Ryan worked for legislators at the State and Federal level. An experienced traveler, Ryan has been to Asia, Central American, Europe, and the Middle East. A lover of God's Creation since childhood, he is likely to be found hiking, backpacking, rafting, fly fishing, or hunting and hopes to retire somewhere near Grand Teton National Park. Ryan is blessed to be a part of Peak 7 and loves sharing with others the impact the organization is having on youth in the Pacific Northwest.
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Samantha Davis
Samantha Davis is an artist theologian living in Seattle, Washington. She works primarily in watercolor and deconstructed books. Her work often explores themes of story, chronic illness, trauma and healing. You can find more of her work at samanthadavisgallery.com. Samantha holds an MA in Theology & Culture from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology.
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Scott Dudley
Scott Dudley is Senior Pastor of Bellevue Presbyterian Church in Bellevue, Washington. He has taught numerous writing and literature courses at Stanford University and Seattle Pacific University, and has spoken at many Christian conferences. He is married to Christina and they have three children.
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Seth Thomas
Seth Thomas serves as Pastor of St. James Presbyterian Church in Bellingham, WA. Seth holds a Master's of Divinity from The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology and is currently pursuing his Doctorate in Ministry in Leadership & Spiritual Formation from Portland Seminary. A lifelong Cascadian, Seth and his family love the beauty of our bioregion, which they explore by hiking, trail running, and neighborhood bike rides.
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Shannon Sigler
Shannon Sigler is a visual artist, theologian, and arts administrator. She has a passion for pastoring artists and building bridges between art and church communities. Her art and research center around a Wesleyan paradigm for the visual arts, as well as explorations in Christian vocation and family life. Shannon studied at Asbury Theological Seminary and Boston University. Shannon lives in Seattle with her husband, Matt, and son, Elijah.
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Stacey Gleddiesmith
Stacey Gleddiesmith is the Director of the Worship Arts program at Columbia Bible College in Abbotsford, BC. She has an MDiv with a concentration in Christianity and the Arts from Regent College, and over twenty years of experience leading worship in various church and mission contexts. She is particularly interested in the biblical theology of worship and how that translates into church practice, and in the intersection of art and theology. When she’s not teaching or reading, she can usually be found in the pottery studio.
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Summer Phillips
Summer is the fourth generation born and raised in the Shoestring Valley of Onalaska, Washington and proudly lives there now—raising chickens, keeping bees, caregiving, and writing. She is a 2020 graduate of Northwest University with an MA in International Community Development and a BA in Developmental Psychology from Warner Pacific College. Walking alongside marginalized rural people, her home is a grassroots respite where she offers bible studies for new believers or seekers, a transitional home for those in recovery, and English language learning for Spanish speakers.
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Tim Soerens
Tim Soerens is the co-founding executive director of the Parish Collective. His latest book is “Everywhere You Look: Discovering the Church, Right Where You Are”. His co-authored first book “The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Transform Mission, Discipleship, and Community.” Closer to home, he’s helping to start South Park Neighborhood Church and is a co-founding owner of Resistencia Coffee, a neighborhood coffee shop, as well as the South Park Idea Lab. He lives in the South Park neighborhood of Seattle, WA with his wife Maria-Jose and their sons Lukas, Joaquín, and Benjamín.
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Tony Kriz
Tony Kriz, DMin, is the Author in Residence at Warner Pacific College. He is the author of “Neighbors and Wise Men” and “Aloof.”
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Tri Robinson
Tri Robinson has dedicated his life to helping people discover and rediscover authentic relationship with Christ. He is a pioneer in the reconstructionist movement and a leader in the Creation Care Movement both in the USA and abroad. Tri and his wife Nancy have been homesteaders, wilderness trail builders, secondary school teachers, missionaries, church planters, and pastors of The Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Boise, Idaho. Tri is an international speaker and the author of seven books including "Saving God’s Green Earth." He was featured in the PBS documentary “Is God Green?” and the UK film “Cowboy Preacher.” Tri and Nancy now reside on their self-sustaining farmstead in the hills of Idaho.
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Victoria Loorz
Victoria Loorz, MDiv, is the founding pastor of the first Church of the Wild in Ojai, CA and led Echoes Wild Church in Bellingham, Washington. She co-founded and leads the ecumenical Wild Church Network and is co-founder of Seminary of the Wild, which offers week-long programs called Wild Earth, Wild Christ, Wild Self, and a yearlong Eco-Ministry Certificate program that guides spiritual leaders to say YES to their own ‘wild calling’ to serve all Creation. She will soon launch Eco-Spiritual Direction, which trains spiritual directors to include the natural world as co-companions on the spiritual journey. A graduate of Fuller Seminary in 1993, she has worked for decades to heal the split between nature and spirit. Victoria’s book, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites us into the Sacred is scheduled to be released Fall 2021 through Broadleaf, Fortress Press. Her young adult children, Alec and Olivia, are wise, creative, tender souls, dedicated to creating a more inclusive, compassionate, and just world.
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Wesley C. Telyea
Wesley C. Telyea is the Lead Pastor of Our Savior Lutheran Church in Issaquah, WA. He is the author of “Your Theological Last Will and Testament,” and has been featured in Lutheran Forum, Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology, The Lutheran, L Magazine: Empowering ELCA Leaders for Vital Ministry, Currents in Theology and Mission, and Sundays and Seasons Preaching, Year B. When not at church, Wesley can be found hunting and fishing around Cascadia.
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