Speakers

Daniel M. Bell, Jr.
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary

Daniel Bell is Professor of Theology and Ethics at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina.  His books include  Liberation Theology After the End of History (Routledge, 2001) Just War as Christian Discipleship (2009), and Economies of Desire: Christianity and Capitalism in a Postmodern World (2012). He speaks on issues of war and peace, the moral life, stewardship, and the mission of the church today.

Jana Bennett
University of Dayton

Jana Bennett is Associate Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Dayton. She is the author of Water is Thicker than Blood: An Augustinian Theology of Marriage and Singleness (2008) and Aquinas on the Web? Doing Theology in an Internet Age (2012).  She is also the assistant editor of the blog www.catholicmoraltheology.com, and has written numerous other articles and essays on gender, technology and theology. 

William Cavanaugh
DePaul University

William Cavanaugh is Senior Research Professor at the Center for World Catholicism at DePaul University.  He is the author of five books and editor of two more.  His most recent books include The Myth of Religious Violence (2009) and Migrations of the Holy (2011). 

Archbishop David Gitari
Retired Anglican Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Kenya

Timothy Gombis
Grand Rapids Theological Seminary

Timothy Gombis participated in the leadership of a multi-ethnic urban church community in Springfield, Ohio for six years, the occasion of much reflection on a Pauline vision of Christian civic engagement.  They moved to Grand Rapids in 2011 and Tim teaches New Testament at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary.  Tim has written on Paul and politics in Paul: A Guide for the Perplexed (2010) and The Drama of Ephesians: Participating in the Triumph of God (2010). He blogs at Faith Improvised (www.timgombis.com).

David P. Gushee
Mercer University

David Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University. His publications include The Future of Faith in American Politics (2008), and Religious Faith, Torture, and Our National Soul (2010). David is a noted progressive evangelical scholar, activist, and commentator on issues of faith and public life for outlets such as USA Today, Huffington Post and the Washington Post. 

Stanley Hauerwas,
Duke Divinity School

Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School. As a theologian, he has focused on the importance of the virtues for the display of Christian living, and the significance of the church as the necessary context for Christian formation and moral reflection. He also works in medical ethics and issues of war and peace. He lectures worldwide and has honorary degrees from DePaul University, University of Edinburgh, and University of Virginia. His publications include Christianity, Democracy and the Radical Ordinary (2008); Working with Words: On Learning to Speak Christian (2011); War and the American Difference: Theological Reflections on Violence and National Identity (2011).

George Kalantzis,
Wheaton College

George Kalantzis is Associate Professor of Theology and Director of the Wheaton Center for Early Christian Studies at Wheaton College. Most recently he co-edited Evangelicals and the Early Church: Recovery • Reform • Renewal (2011) and authored Early Christian Attitudes on War and Military Service (2012).

Peter J. Leithart
New St. Andrews College

Peter Leithart is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America, and serves as a senior fellow in theology and literature at New St. Andrews College, Moscow, Idaho, and on the pastoral staff of Trinity Reformed Church.  His most recent books include Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom (2010) and Between Babel and Beast: America and Empires in Biblical Perspective (2012). 

Jennifer McBride
Wartburg College

Jennifer McBride is the Board of Regents Chair in Ethics and Assistant Professor of Religion at Wartburg College. She serves on the Board of Directors of the International Bonhoeffer Society, English Language Section. McBride is co-editor of Bonhoeffer and King: Their Legacies and Import for Christian Social Thought (2010), and she is the author of The Church for the World: A Theology of Public Witness (2011).

Scot McKnight
Northern Seminary

Scot McKnight is a recognized authority on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus. He is the Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in Lombard, IL.  McKnight has given many interviews on radio and television and regularly speaks at churches, colleges, and seminaries worldwide. His most recent publications include The King Jesus Gospel (2011), The Jesus Creed for Students (2011), One. Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow (2010), and James (2010). His blog, Jesus Creed, is a leading Christian blog.

Mark Noll,
University of Notre Dame

Mark Noll is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His publications include One Nation Under God? Christian Faith and Political Action in America (1988); The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (2006); and God and Race in American Politics:  A Short History (2008). He is also the co-editor of Religion and American Politics:  From the Colonial Period to the Present (2nd ed., 2007).