2025 Speakers

  • John Dominic Crossan Headshot

    John Dominic Crossan

    Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, DePaul University, Chicago

  • Reggie Williams headshot

    Reggie Williams

    Professor of Christian Ethics at McCormick Theological Seminary

  • Kelly Brown Douglas headshot

    Kelly Brown Douglas

    Visiting Professor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School

  • Casper ter Kuile headshot

    Casper ter Kuile

    Author, The Power of Ritual | Co-Host, Harry Potter and the Sacred Text | Co-Founder, Sacred Design Lab

  • Jeffrey C. Pugh headshot

    Jeffrey C. Pugh

    Distinguished University Professor and the Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University

  • Adam Clark Headshot

    Adam Clark

    Associate Professor of Theology at Xavier University

  • Juan Floyd-Thomas

    Juan Floyd-Thomas

    Associate Professor of African American Religious History, Vanderbilt University

  • Stacey Floyd-Thomas headshot

    Stacey Floyd-Thomas

    The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University Divinity School

  • Philip Clayton headshot

    Philip Clayton

    Ingraham Professor, Claremont School of Theology | Author or editor of 26 books, most recently Science and the Sacred (with Claudia Peirce)

  • Grace Ji-Sun Kim headshot

    Grace Ji-Sun Kim

    Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religion

  • Dan Koch

    PsyD, Therapist & Researcher | Host of the You Have Permission podcast

  • Andy Root

    The Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary

  • Noreen Herzfeld headshot

    Noreen Herzfeld

    Professor/Director of Benedictine Spirituality and the Environment | Author of The Artifice of Intelligence:  Divine and Human Relationship in a Robotic Age

  • Myron Penner

    Professor of Philosophy at Trinity Western University

  • Sarah Lane Ritchie

    Researcher of science, philosophy, and religion

  • Lori Brandt Hale

    Lori Brandt Hale

    Director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Religion at Augsburg University

  • 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

  • Pete Enns

    Professor of Biblical Studies, Eastern University | Host of The Bible for Normal People podcast

  • Roberto Che Espinoza headshot

    Roberto Che Espinoza

    Transgender & Latinx public scholar, using imaginative narrative to steward more ethical futures

  • James F. McGrath Headshot

    James F. McGrath

    Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language & Literature, Butler University

  • Benjamin Chicka headshot

    Benjamin Chicka

    Senior Lecturer of Philosophy and Religion, Curry College | President, North American Paul Tillich Society | Author, Playing as Others and God the Created

  • Jon Gill

    Assistant Professor Philosophy Department | Gustavus Adolphus College

  • 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)

  •  Rolf Jacobson headshot

    Rolf Jacobson

    Dean of the Faculty, Professor of Old Testament, and Alvin N. Rogness Chair of Scripture, Theology, and Ministry at Luther Seminary