Andrew is a singer-songwriter, an author, and the founder of the Rabbit Room, a ministry dedicated to fostering spiritual formation and Christ-centered community through story, art, and music. He lives in Nashville with his wife and about 80,000 honey bees.

Tom is the Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University. He is one of the world’s leading Bible scholars, with expertise in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, the New Testament, and Biblical Studies. He is Emeritus Professor at the University of St. Andrews and the former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England. For twenty years he taught New Testament studies at Cambridge, McGill, and Oxford Universities. As a preeminent Bible scholar and a popular author, he has been featured on ABC News, Dateline, The Colbert Report, and Fresh Air. His award-winning books include: The Case for the Psalms; How God Became King; Simply Jesus; After You Believe; Surprised by Hope; Simply Christian; Scripture and the Authority of God; The Meaning of Jesus (co-authored with Marcus Borg), as well as being the translator for The Kingdom New Testament. He also wrote the Christian Origins and the Question of God series, including The New Testament and the People of God; Jesus and the Victory of God; The Resurrection of the Son of God; and most recently, Paul and the Faithfulness of God. His virtual Bible classes through N.T. Wright Online are among the most popular on the Udemy platform.

Deborah Haarsma is President of BioLogos. She is a frequent speaker on science and Christian faith at universities, churches, and public venues like the National Press Club. Her work appears in several recent books, including Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Design and Christ and the Created Order. Her book Origins presents the agreements and disagreements among Christians regarding the history of life and the universe. She also co-edited the anthology Delight in Creation: Scientists Share Their Work with the Church. Previously, Deborah served as professor and chair of Physics and Astronomy at Calvin College. She is a research scientist, with several publications on galaxies and the universe. She holds a bachelor's degree from Bethel University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Katharine Hayhoe is an accomplished atmospheric scientist who studies climate change and why it matters to us here and now. She is also a remarkable communicator who has received the American Geophysical Union’s climate communication prize, the Stephen Schneider Climate Communication award, the United Nations Champion of the Earth award, and been named to a number of lists including Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Thinkers, and FORTUNE magazine’s World’s Greatest Leaders. Her TED talk, “The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it” has nearly 4 million views and her most recent book is, “Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World” (Simon & Schuster) 

Katharine serves as Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy and she is also a Paul W. Horn Distinguished Professor and the Political Science Endowed Professor in Public Policy and Public Law at Texas Tech University. She has a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Toronto and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Illinois and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Colgate University and Victoria University at the University of Toronto.

Lauren is the Executive Director of Faith and Law, where she has led the ministry in Washington for four years. Previously, she worked as Director of House Relations and Director of Special Projects for the Heritage Foundation. She started her career on Capitol Hill working for Congressman John Shadegg (R-AZ) and later became legislative director for Congressman Joe Pitts (R-PA). During her time on the Hill, she participated in Faith and Law, which has made her position as Executive Director especially meaningful for her and impactful to the organization. Lauren graduated magna cum laude from Wake Forest University with a B.A. in English Literature. She lives in Arlington, Va., with her husband, Brad, and their four children.

Josh is the Director of the Faith Angle Forum, a program of the Ethics & Public Policy Center that since 1999 has strengthened reporting and commentary on how religious believers and their diverse faith convictions affect American politics and public life. Faith Angle convenes two-day forums away from the power centers of Washington and New York, inviting top journalists to go deep with religion scholars on contemporary issues. Josh previously worked in consulting, in philanthropy, and as a program manager in two other think tanks.

Donald Miller is the CEO of Business Made Simple. He is the host of the Business Made Simple podcast and is the author of several books including the bestsellers Blue Like Jazz, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, and Building a StoryBrand. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife, Elizabeth and their daughter, Emmeline.

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Anthony Flynn is a Venture Partner with Praxis and serves as CEO of WorkFaith Connection, which has a mission to provide faith-based training and coaching for anyone that desires long-term employment. In addition, Anthony is an internationally renowned coach to CEOs, Key Executives and Entrepreneurs through his latest venture, Amazing CEO LLC. He has spent the last 20 years in high-capacity leadership roles in the public and non-profit sectors, including work with three Fortune 100 giants. He is the author of The Execution Pipeline: A Step-by-Step Guide to Moving Your Business Idea From Dream to Reality and co-author of The Happiness Map: Finding Fulfillment in Life and Work. Anthony earned a business degree at The University of Memphis and an advanced degree from Memphis Theological Seminary. Anthony resides in Houston, TX and loves hanging out with his amazing wife, son and daughter.

Lisa Fields is one of the world’s most sought-after Christian apologists. She is the Founder and CEO of the Jude 3 Project, a Christian apologetics organization focused on equipping and engaging the African American context. Lisa is a graduate of the University of North Florida with a Bachelor of Science in communications and religious studies, and Liberty University with a Master of Divinity with a focus in theology. She is also a contributing author to “Cultural Engagement: A Crash Course in Contemporary Issues.”

S. D. Smith is the author of The Green Ember Series, a bestselling middle-grade adventure saga. The Green Ember has reached hundreds of thousands of readers and spent time as the number one bestselling audiobook in the world on Audible. Smith’s stories are captivating readers across the globe who are hungry for “new stories with an old soul.” Enthusiastic families can’t get enough of these tales.

Vintage adventure. Moral imagination. Classic virtue. Finally, stories we all love. Just one more chapter, please!

When he’s not writing adventurous tales of #RabbitsWithSwords in his writing shed, dubbed The Forge, Smith loves to speak to audiences about storytelling, imagination, and seeing yourself as a character in the Story.

Rick has been the CEO of MedSend for the last 13 years. Under his leadership the organization has grown in impact and influence. He spent the first half of his career in the software and professional services industry building and growing organizations. In addition he spent 8 years as a pastor at a non-denominational church in Stamford CT.  His passion is to share the love of Jesus to a hurting and broken world.  He and his wife Linda have been married for 42 years and have four daughters and two grandchildren.

The Rev. Dr. Gabriel Salguero—is pastor of The Gathering Place, a Latino-led multi-ethnic Assemblies of God congregation in Orlando, Florida. Salguero is also the president and founder of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition (NALEC), a national coalition of several thousand evangelical congregations in the United States. He was the former Director of the Hispanic Leadership Program (HLP), and the Institute for Faith and Public Life at Princeton Theological Seminary. Salguero is also a powerful voice on issues that affect the close to 9 million Latino evangelicals in the United States. Salguero’s leadership through NaLEC, offers an important voice for the growing diversity and changing demographics in our country. He has written extensively on Latino evangelicalism, immigration, racism, and multicultural congregations. Salguero has been named as one of the nation’s most prominent Latino evangelical leaders by the New York Times, Huffington Post, the New York Observer, the Center for American Progress, El Diario, CNN Español, NBC Universal, Univisión, and Jorge Ramos’s Al Punto. In addition, his leadership on issues of young male education and criminal justice reform has been featured by the Discovery Channel and the Oprah Winfrey Network. Rev. Salguero has served on the White House Faith-Based Advisory Council, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), and the National Advisory Council of the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance. He is also on the board of La Asociación Evangélica Latina (AEL) the coalition of Latin American evangelicals which is the representative body for all evangelical associations in Latin America. Salguero holds a BA in Spanish and History from Rutgers University, and M.Div (magna cum laude) from New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and holds a Doctorate in Divinity (honoris causa) from Eastern Nazarene College. Rev. Salguero lives together with his wife, the Rev. Jeanette Salguero and their two sons in Orlando, Florida.

Philip Yancey is the author of twenty-five books, including The Jesus I Never Knew, What’s So Amazing About Grace?, and Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church. Yancey’s books have garnered thirteen Gold Medallion Book Awards from Christian publishers and booksellers. He currently has more than seventeen million books in print and has been published in some fifty languages worldwide. Philip’s most recent book is his long-awaited memoir: Where the Light Fell, released in 2021.

Yancey worked as a journalist in Chicago for around twenty years, editing the youth magazine Campus Life while also writing for a wide variety of publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Christianity Today. He and his wife currently live in the foothills of Colorado.

John Mark Comer is the director and teacher of Practicing the Way, founding pastor of Bridgetown Church and the New York Times bestselling author of Live No Lies.

His growing passion is the intersection of spiritual formation and post-Christian culture. The gnawing questions that get him out of bed in the morning are, How do we experience life with God? And how do we change to become more like Jesus? To that end, he is regularly found reading the desert fathers and mothers, ancient saints and obscure contemplatives, modern psychologists and social scientists, philosophers like Dallas Willard, and op-eds from the New York Times. 

When he’s not reading, he can be found around a table with his family and friends, attempting to learn how to cook, drinking Heart coffee, and walking the family dog in the forest. Most important, he is husband to T and father to Jude, Moses, and Sunday.

Growing up in a poor, single parent household in North Charleston, South Carolina, a young Tim Scott grew accustomed to moving every few years, as well as the long hours his mom worked to keep a roof over their heads. After failing four classes his freshman year of high school, Tim’s path forward was murky at best.

But thankfully, he had a mom who stuck with him, and met a mentor that showed him the wisdom of conservative principles. Through their belief and his own determination, Tim got his grades back on track, graduated from Charleston Southern University, and eventually built his own successful small business.

Through the lessons taught by his mentor, Tim developed his mission statement: to positively affect the lives of a billion people. That led him to public service, where he was elected to Charleston County Council, the South Carolina House of Representatives, the United States House of Representatives, and the United States Senate.

Since joining the Senate in 2013, Senator Scott has been a national leader on efforts to bring opportunity to every American family. His signature legislation creating Opportunity Zones was passed as part of the 2017 tax reform package, and has the potential to bring billions of dollars of private investment into distressed communities across the country.

As he continues to lead on the implementation of the Opportunity Zones initiative, Senator Scott also plays a critical role in issues regarding workforce development, education and diversity. Whether it’s tackling the skills gap, making sure children have access to the educational environment best suited for them, or working to bring everyone to the table to find solutions, Senator Scott will keep fighting for South Carolinians every single day he serves in the U.S. Senate.

Will Acuff has spent the last 15 years of his life learning what it means to have a "theology of neighbor" while living in an underestimated community. As the Co-Founder of the nonprofit Corner to Corner, he has developed creative and proven programs that foster economic flourishing with neighbors in Nashville, TN. He loves to share his passion and experience with others and to invite Christians into the deep joy that comes from loving our neighbor as we love ourselves.

Will received his BA from North Carolina State University and his master's degree in Biblical Studies from the Reformed Theological Seminary. He has been married to his wife and Co-Founder, Tiffany, for 17 years, and they live with their two children in Nashville, TN.
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To learn more about how Corner to Corner co-creates economic participation and growth with underestimated Nashvillians, visit cornertocorner.org.

Warren has been the president of Ministry Watch since 2019. Prior to taking on this role, he was vice president of mission advancement for the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Warren also hosts the weekly podcast “Listening In,” a long-form interview program heard by tens of thousands of subscribers each week. He previously served as vice president and associate publisher of WORLD News Group, publisher of WORLD Magazine.

Before transitioning to a career in ministry, Warren spent more than 20 years in the corporate world, including seven years as marketing director for a major division of PricewaterhouseCoopers, a global accounting and consulting firm.

Warren has written more than 3,000 articles, including investigative pieces on major Christian ministries. He has written, co-written, or edited more than 10 books, including Restoring All Things: God’s Audacious Plan to Change the World Through Everyday People (with John Stonestreet, 2015). His most recent is Faith-Based Fraud: Learning From The Great Religious Scandals of our Time, published in 2021. During the 1990s and early 2000s, he published the North Carolina newspaper The Charlotte World, which was twice named newspaper of the year by the Evangelical Press Association under his editorship.

His education includes a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in English, both from the University of Georgia. Warren and his wife, Missy, have been married for more than 39 years and have four grown children. They live in Charlotte, North Carolina.

As an entrepreneur turned nonprofit Executive Director, Shana understands how to cultivate the joy of creation into economic flourishing. She’s spent the past 3 years helping underestimated Nashvillians develop knowledge, tools, and networks – to build the neighborhood economy. She’ll share her energy and experience to motivate your teams to uncover their hidden creative talents and support others in their journey.

Shana attended Vanderbilt University, where she earned a BA in English and sociology with a minor in African American Studies. Shana then received a Juris Doctorate in 2014 as a member of the first graduating class from Belmont University’s School of Law.

In 2017, Shana began volunteering with Corner to Corner, a non-profit that helps underestimated entrepreneurs plan, start and scale their small businesses. She left her legal career behind to become the program director of The Academy, Corner to Corner’s 10-week entrepreneurship program. To date, this program has graduated over 600 black entrepreneurs and, in 2021 alone, put $13 million back into the neighborhood economy.  

Shana, an entrepreneur herself, owns a small business called The Fashion Chase which helps corporately creative women find and redefine their personal style. She serves on the boards of University Community Health Service and The 37208 Fund, a privately funded, participatory grant funding program in North Nashville.

Dr. John Townsend is a nationally-known leadership consultant, author and psychologist. He has written over 30 books selling 10 million copies, including the New York Times bestselling Boundaries series.

John founded and operates the Townsend Institute for Leadership and Counseling, and the Townsend Leadership Program.

Dr. Townsend travels extensively for corporate consulting, speaking events, and to help develop leaders, their teams and their families.

He has a weekly video call-in program, Dr. Townsend Live.

John is a long term Gathering presence, and has served as a coach for many Gathering families over the years.

He and his family live in Southern California and Texas. One of his passions is playing in his and his sons’ band, The Bandits, at local venues and parties!

Visit DrTownsend.com.

Skye Jethani is an award-winning author and speaker, and co-host of the popular Holy Post Podcast, a weekly show that blends astute cultural and theological insights with comical conversation. Skye is the president of Measure the Clouds, a non-profit organization helping a post-Christian generation discover a ravishing vision of life with God. He has authored ten books including the "What If Jesus Was Serious?" series and served for over a decade in numerous editorial and executive roles at Christianity Today. He also writes WITH GOD DAILY, a digital daily devotional for people who hate daily devotionals. Skye lives in Wheaton, Illinois, with his wife Amanda and their three children.

Phil Vischer is an author, speaker, filmmaker, voice actor and podcast host, best known for the Christian children’s series VeggieTales and more recently the Holy Post Podcast.  Collectively, Phil’s creations, which include the educational series What’s in the Bible? and the autobiographical book Me, Myself & Bob, have sold more than 50 million copies around the world.

Phil lives with his wife Lisa (aka Junior Asparagus) in West Chicago, IL.  They have three adult children.

Geoff Moore is a multi Grammy nominated and Dove award winning recording artist and songwriter. For almost forty years Geoff has recorded over twenty albums and toured extensively around the world.

He is also the founder and President of Fellowship Adventures. A non profit ministry that serves pastors, non profit leaders and people in serving based vocations by curating outdoor adventure experiences.

A graduate of Taylor University where he met Jan,  his wife of 39 years.  They have two grown  biological sons,  two Chinese adopted college age daughters and one granddaughter.

Geoff and his family live in Franklin, Tennessee.

Dan is the frontman of the bands Jars of Clay and The Hawk In Paris, and he is a three-time Grammy Award-winning songwriter, producer, and writer. In 2004, Dan co-founded Blood:Water Mission, a nonprofit organization that partners with grassroots African organizations for enduring health and dignity, focusing on the HIV/AIDS and water crises.

Dan composed the music for the hit television series about the life of Jesus, The Chosen. He also authored two children’s books: The One, The Only Magnificent Me and Lulu and the Long Walk. Dan lives near Nashville with his wife and two boys.

Matthew S. Nelson is a composer, a cellist, and a guitarist who has worked professionally in a wide variety of musical roles since 1999. He is best known for his touring work as bandleader for country artist RaeLynn, his touring and session work with award-winning band Jars of Clay, and his score (co-composed with Dan Haseltine) for the hit original series The Chosen, the #1 crowdfunded media project in history. Regardless of a particular discipline, his creative voice strives to connect the humble thread of artistic expression to the rich tapestry of collective human consciousness.

Nelson holds a Bachelor of Music from Middle Tennessee State University, where he studied cello with Xiao-Fan Zhang and jazz guitar with Paul Abrams, and an Associate of Arts from Pensacola Junior College, where he studied cello with Dr. Brad Knobel.

In addition to album credits as diverse as JD Souther, Anderson East, Michael W. Smith, and Hooray for the Riff Raff, Nelson has performed live with Amy Grant, Sleeping at Last, Steven Curtis Chapman, and Cheap Trick, among a long list of others. He has appeared on NBC’s Today, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Grand Ole Opry, NPR’s Mountain Stage, and the TV drama series Nashville.

In addition to The Chosen, Nelson is working on new music with his neoclassical duo kïngpinguïn. He is slated to join co-composer Dan Haseltine to score Brock Heasely's spiritual sci-fi feature The Shift. Matthew S. Nelson lives in Nashville, Tennessee.