
2025 Speakers
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John Dominic Crossan
Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, DePaul University, Chicago
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Reggie Williams
Professor of Christian Ethics at McCormick Theological Seminary
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Kelly Brown Douglas
Visiting Professor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School
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Casper ter Kuile
Author, The Power of Ritual | Co-Host, Harry Potter and the Sacred Text | Co-Founder, Sacred Design Lab
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Jeffrey C. Pugh
Distinguished University Professor and the Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University
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Adam Clark
Associate Professor of Theology at Xavier University
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Juan Floyd-Thomas
Associate Professor of African American Religious History, Vanderbilt University
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Stacey Floyd-Thomas
The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University Divinity School
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Philip Clayton
Ingraham Professor, Claremont School of Theology | Author or editor of 26 books, most recently Science and the Sacred (with Claudia Peirce)
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Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religion
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Dan Koch
PsyD, Therapist & Researcher | Host of the You Have Permission podcast
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Andy Root
The Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary
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Noreen Herzfeld
Professor/Director of Benedictine Spirituality and the Environment | Author of The Artifice of Intelligence: Divine and Human Relationship in a Robotic Age
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Myron Penner
Professor of Philosophy at Trinity Western University
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Sarah Lane Ritchie
Researcher of science, philosophy, and religion
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Lori Brandt Hale
Director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Religion at Augsburg University
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Thomas Jay Oord
Director of Doctoral Programs in Open and Relational Theology at Northwind Theological Seminary, Director of the Center for Open and Relational Theology
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Pete Enns
Professor of Biblical Studies, Eastern University | Host of The Bible for Normal People podcast
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Roberto Che Espinoza
Transgender & Latinx public scholar, using imaginative narrative to steward more ethical futures
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James F. McGrath
Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language & Literature, Butler University
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Benjamin Chicka
Senior Lecturer of Philosophy and Religion, Curry College | President, North American Paul Tillich Society | Author, Playing as Others and God the Created
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Jon Gill
Assistant Professor Philosophy Department | Gustavus Adolphus College
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Michael Morelli
Associate Professor of Theology & Ethics, Northwest College & Seminary | Author of Theology, Ethics, and Technology in the Work of Jacques Ellul and Paul Virilio | Host of Personalist Manifesto(s)
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Rolf Jacobson
Dean of the Faculty, Professor of Old Testament, and Alvin N. Rogness Chair of Scripture, Theology, and Ministry at Luther Seminary