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Beau Hughes

Beau Hughes is the Lead Pastor of TVC Denton. He received his bachelor’s degree from George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, and his M.A. and D.Ed.Min. degrees from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Beau married Kimberly in 2007. They have four children, two sons and two daughters.

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Beau Hughes

How does the media we consume perpetuate stereotypes in our hearts?

Beau Hughes shares how the media we consume can perpetuate stereotypes in our hearts. 

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How can churches help people address personal prejudice?

People can have feelings of prejudice about other races. Beau Hughes shares how churches...

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A.B. Vines, Sr. is senior pastor of New Seasons Church in San Diego, California.

Aaron Bryant

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Aaron Cline Hanbury is manager of news and information at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. 

Aaron Colyer

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Aaron Earls

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Aaron Mercer

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Aaron Rothermel

Aaron Rothermel, M.Div., is the pastor for Children’s and Family Discipleship at Bethlehem Baptist Church—North, in the Twin Cities. He has written curriculum for children in…

Aaron Sanders

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Adam Griffin

Adam Groza

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Adam Holland

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Adam J. Macleod

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Afshin Ziafat

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Alan Brumback

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Alan Cross

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Alan Noble

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Alex Chediak

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Alex Himaya

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Alex Ward

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Alexa Burstow

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Ali Dixon

Ali Dixon is a news and information specialist at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Alice Stricklin

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Alishia Lawman

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Alison Centofante

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Alison Howard

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Alissa Wilkinson

Allison Cantrell

Senior Policy Associate

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Allison Duhon

Allison Hill

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Allison Roark

Allison Roark lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband, Nick, and three children. She is a member of Franconia Baptist Church, where Nick serves as pastor.

Allison Young

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Ally Wall

Ally Wall writes for Stand for Life. 

Allyson Howell

Allyson Howell

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Allyson Howell

Allyson Howell

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Alysse ElHage

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Amanda Duvall

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Amanda Hays

Amanda Hays

Digital Marketing Manager

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Amber Henderson

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Amber Hurm

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Amie Patrick

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Amy Castello

Amy Castello

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Amy Ford

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Amy Jo Fox

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Amy Morgan

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Amy Richards

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Amy Simpson

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Amy Whitfield

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Andreas Bienert

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Andreas Kostenberger

Andrew Arthur

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Andrew Bertodatti

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Andrew Fuller

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Andrew Hebert

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Andrew J. Schmutzer

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Andrew King

Andrew Koetsier

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Andrew Peterson

Andrew Schmutzer

Andrew Spencer

Andrew Spencer

Research Fellow

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Andrew Walker

Andrew Walker

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Andrew Wood

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Andy Crouch

Andy Davis

Andy serves as senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Durham, N.C., where he has been since October of 1998. Andy was born in Boston, Mass.,…

Andy Johnson

Andy Johnson (PhD, Texas A&M) serves as an associate pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., and is the author of Missions: How the Local…

Andy Lewis

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Andy Stanley

Ann Voskamp

Anna Claire Flowers

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Anne O’Connor

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Annie Kratzsch

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April Franklin

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Arielle Del Turco

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Ashlee Garcia

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Ashley Gorman

Ashley Hales

Ashley Hales is a writer, speaker, pastor's wife, and mother to four. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and she…

Ashley Newell

Ashley is the co-founder of Stand for Orphans. She is married to Herbie, and they have three children.

Ashley Smith

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Ashley Unzicker

Ashley Unzicker is a Graduate student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in N.C. She is working on a degree in Ethics, Theology, and Culture. She currently…

Ashli Arbo

Ashli Arbo has been practicing law since 2007 and is a graduate of Union University and Liberty University School of Law. Arbo has represented individuals and…

Ashlyn Portero

Ashlyn Portero serves as one of the Executive Directors at City Church in Tallahassee, FL, where she helps oversee the day-to-day operations and strategic initiatives of…

Ashton Morgan

Aubrey Sequeira

Aubrey Sequeira was born and raised in Chennai, an urban center in Southern India, where he was saved through the faithful witness of a missionary in…

Austin Gravely

Austin Gravley is the producer of Mending Division Academy for American Values Coalition and the Deacon of Social Media for Redeemer Christian Church in Amarillo, Texas.…

Austin Maddox

Austin Maddox is a graduating senior at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, where he is majoring in Public Relations. After graduation, he plans on attending seminary.…

Averri T. LeMalle

Averri T. LeMalle is the Campus Pastor of Champion Forest Baptist Church, Jersey Village. Averri developed a love for Christ at a young age, and his…

B.J. Thompson

Barbara Rainey

Barbara Reaoch

Barbara Reaoch, author of A Jesus Easter, is former director of the Children’s Division of Bible Study Fellowship. She loves God, her husband, their family, and…

Barrett Duke

Barrett Duke is an emeritus fellow at the ERLC. He is the executive director-treasurer for the Montana Southern Baptist Convention and the founding director of the…

Barronelle Stutzman

Barronelle Stutzman is the sole owner of Arlene’s Flowers in Richland, Washington.

Barry Creamer

Barry Creamer serves as president of Criswell College and professor of humanities. A trained philosopher and historian, Barry holds a B.A. in English from Baylor University,…

Barry H. Corey

Barry H. Corey is the eighth president of Biola University, in La Mirada, Calif. He is the author of the recently released book, Love Kindness: Discover…

Barry Hankins

Barry Hankins (PhD, Kansas State University) is professor of history at Baylor University, as well as a resident scholar with the Institute for Studies of Religion.

Bart Barber

Research Fellow

Bart Barber has served as the pastor of First Baptist Church in Farmersville, Texas, since 1999. Bart has a B.A. from Baylor University in their University…

Bart Barber

Bart Barber

Bart Barber has served as the pastor of First Baptist Church in Farmersville, Texas, since 1999. He is married to Tracy (Brady) Barber. Bart has a…

Bart Box

Bart is an Alabama native and has lived in the Birmingham area since 2009. He and his wife Leslie met sometime during kindergarten (they guess), began…

Bartholomew Orr

Bartholomew Orr is the Senior Pastor of Brown Missionary Baptist Church. Pastor Orr has served in this capacity since January 25, 1989. Pastor Orr received his Doctorate…

Barton Gingerich

Barton Gingerich is a Master of Divinity student at Reformed Episcopal Seminary and a fellow at the Institute on Religion and Democracy. He holds a B.…

Beau Hughes

Beau Hughes is the Lead Pastor of TVC Denton. He received his bachelor’s degree from George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, and his M.A. and D.Ed.Min.…

Becky Weichhand

Becky Weichhand has a J.D. from Regent Law, and is a licensed attorney in Virginia. She is currently the Executive Director at the Congressional Coalition on Adoption…

Bekah Stoneking

Bekah Stoneking serves as Content Editor for Explore the Bible: Kids at LifeWay Christian Resources where she focuses on biblical and historical research and develops resources for…

Ben Arbour

Ben Arbour holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bristol and is an adjunct professor at Weatherford College. He is married to Meg, and they have…

Ben Harbaugh

Ben Harbaugh serves as a State Policy Associate for the Washington, D.C., office. He assists with policy work on criminal justice reform, healthcare, religious liberty, and…

Ben Mandrell

Ben Reaoch

Ben Reaoch serves as pastor of Three Rivers Grace Church in Pittsburgh, Penn., where he has been since 2006. He is married to Stacy, and they…

Ben Renshaw

Ben Sasse

Ben Stuart

Benjamin B. Phillips

Benjamin B. Phillips is an associate dean and professor at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Houston campus.

Benjamin Ball

Benjamin Ball is a member of Princeton University’s undergraduate class of 2021, where he studied English, with minors in African American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies,…

Benjamin Mast

Dr. Benjamin Mast is a professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Louisville. He received his bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Calvin College…

Benjamin Phillips

Benjamin Quinn

Benjamin Quinn

Research Fellow

Dr. Benjamin Quinn is an Associate Professor of Theology and History of Ideas at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He also serves as the Director of the…

benjamin watson

Benjamin Watson

Benjamin Watson is a former NFL tight end, as well as a writer, a speaker, and an activist. He is a college football studio analyst with the…

Benjamin Wright

Ben Wright is married to Meredith, and together they’re parents of five (soon-to-be six). He planted and pastors Cedar Pointe Baptist Church in the northwest Austin…

Berny Belvedere

Berny Belvedere has studied philosophy (Florida International University and University of Florida) and theology (Trinity International University and Knox Theological Seminary), and is a professor of…

Beth M. Broom

Beth M. Broom is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (LPC-S) and Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist (CCTS-I). She has a private counseling practice, working primarily with married…

Beth Moore

Beth Moore was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, during what her father describes as the worst thunderstorm the city had seen in five years. He affectionately…

Beth Reid

Beth Reid is a writer for Prison Fellowship. 

Bethany Baird

Bethany Baird is the co-founder of Girl Defined Ministries and author of Girl Defined: God’s Radical Design for Beauty, Femininity and Identity. Her passion is to…

Bethany Jenkins

Bethany L. Jenkins is the Director of The Gospel Coalition’s Every Square Inch, the Director of Vocational & Career Development at The King’s College, and the Founder of The Park…

Beverly Chao Berrus

Beverly Chao Berrus is a contributor to His Testimonies, My Heritage, inspiring collection of devotions on Psalm 119 by a diverse group of women of color—African-American,…

Beverly Robertson

Beverly Robertson is the former president of the National Civil Rights Museum. 

Bill Haslam

Bill Haslam is a businessman and served as the 49th governor of Tennessee.

Bishop Ed Stephens

As senior pastor of Golden Gate Cathedral and CEO of Golden Gate Development Corporation Bishop oversees the efforts to transform our community with Christ. He has…

BJ Thompson

Blake Chilton

Blake Chilton serves as the Lead Pastor of Declaration Church in Bryan-College Station, Texas. He is a graduate of Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and…

Blake Hardcastle

Blake Hardcastle serves as the Spiritual Formation Pastor at Grand Parkway Baptist Church in Richmond, Texas. He is a graduate of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,…

Blake Rogers

Blake Rogers serves as a pastor at Christ Covenant in Atlanta, Georgia. He was born and raised in Georgia before attending Boyce College in Louisville, Kentucky,…

Bob Fu

Bob (Xiqiu) Fu is one of the leading voices in the world for persecuted faith communities in China. Fu was born and raised in mainland China…

Bob Lepine

Bob Lepine is Senior Vice President and Chief Creative Officer of FamilyLife and Co-Host of FamilyLife Today®, FamilyLife’s nationally syndicated radio program. A veteran of Christian…

Bob Terry

Bobby Jamieson

Bobby Jamieson (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) serves as an associate pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. He previously served as assistant editor for…

Bobby Reed

Chief Financial Officer

Bobby Reed serves as chief financial officer. His primary responsibilities are financial oversight, human resources, and administrative business functions. Bobby, a graduate of Louisiana State University,…

Bonnie Pritchett

Bonnie reports on First Amendment freedoms for WORLD Digital.

Boyd Bettis

Boyd Bettis is married to Brittany and they have three children. He serves as the Lead Pastor of The District Church in Jacksonville, Fla.

Boz Tchividjian

Boz Tchividjian is a former child abuse prosecutor who teaches Child Abuse and the Law and several other courses at Liberty Law. He is the Executive Director of…

Brad Hambrick

Brad Hambrick serves as the pastor of counseling at The Summit Church in Durham, NC. He also serves as assistant professor of Biblical counseling at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary,…

Brad Hoefs

Brad Hoefs is a pastor, international speaker, and mental health advocate who is passionate about coaching, inspiring, and empowering others with hope no matter what circumstance…

Brad Leake

Brad Leake is the Director of Staff & Ministries at Grace Community Church in Nashville, Tennessee. His role is to serve as the organizational leader and…

Brad Walker

Brad Walker serves as the senior pastor of FBC Sparta in Sparta, Tenn. Brad attended Tennessee Tech University, where he played basketball and majored in English Literature. It…

Bradley L. Sickler

Bradley L. Sickler (Ph.D., Purdue University) is associate professor of philosophy and the program director for the master of arts in theological studies program at the University…

Brady A. Weller

Brady is a former policy intern at the ERLC and the current president of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA at Loyola University Maryland. He studies writing and philosophy…

Brady Cooper

Brady Cooper is the Senior Pastor at New Vision Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, TN. Brady is responsible for giving overall vision and providing direction to New…

Brandon D. Smith

Brandon D. Smith works with the Holman Christian Standard Bible and teaches theology at California Baptist University. He’s also co-author of Rooted: Theology for Growing Christians…

Brandon Elrod

Brandon Elrod

Brandon Elrod serves as a public relations specialist with the North American Mission Board focusing on internal and external written communication.

Brandon James Smith

Brandt Waggoner

Brandt is the lead pastor of Fairview Church in Lebanon, Tennessee. He is the husband of Jill, and father of Judson, John Martin, and Jackson. He…

Brent Dusing

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Brent Leatherwood

President

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Brent Leatherwood

President

Brent Leatherwood was elected as the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission in 2022, through a unanimous vote by the board of trustees. He…

Brett Aucoin

Dr. Aucoin has been teaching at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary since 2004, and also serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at The College at Southeastern. He…

Brett McCracken

Brett McCracken is a senior editor and director of communications for The Gospel Coalition.

Brett Pitman

Brett Pitman currently serves as the Senior Pastor of Highland Park Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. In addition to serving at Highland Park, he also…

Bri Stensrud

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Brian Auten

Brian Auten serves as an intelligence analyst with the United States government.

Brian Coates

Brian Coates serves as an Associate Executive Pastor at Brentwood Baptist Church, Brentwood, Tennessee. He is a native of Springfield, Virginia. He holds M.Div. and Ph.D.…

Brian Croft

Brian Croft has served in pastoral ministry for over 25 years and is the founder and executive director of Practical Shepherding. He is also the senior…

Brian Dembowczyk

Before becoming the Gospel Project’s Managing Editor, Brian Dembowczyk served in local church ministry for over 16 years. Brian is completing a Ph.D. dissertation on family…

Brian Fikkert

Dr. Brian Fikkert is a professor of Economics and Community Development and the founder and president of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development at Covenant College.…

Brian Fisher

Author, speaker, and business leader Brian Fisher co-founded Human Coalition after years serving in executive management in the for-profit and non-profit arenas.

Brian Grim

Brian J. Grim, Ph. D., is president of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation (RFBF) and a leading expert on international religious demography and the socio-economic…

Brian Hobbs

Brian Hobbs serves as editor of the Baptist Messenger, the statewide newsjournal of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma (BGCO). Hobbs also serves as BGCO Communications…

Brian Howard

Brian Howard is the Executive Director of Context Coaching Inc., a firm that specializes in coaching high-achieving leaders.

Brian Mattson

Dr. Brian Mattson was born, raised, and currently lives in the State of Montana. Educationally, he obtained a B.A. from Montana State University-Billings, an M.A.R. from…

Brian McKenney

Brian McKenney is the communications director at Calvary Chapel Chattanooga, where he lives out his passion for communicating the life-changing truth of God's Word. He lives…

Brian Owen

Brian Seagraves

Brittany Allen

Brittany Allen is a wife to James and a mother to Theo and three babies lost through miscarriage. She’s a writer, occasional speaker, and theology lover.…

Brittany Salmon

Brittany is a wife, mother, and writer living in Abilene, Texas. She is an adjunct professor in Global Studies, a doctoral student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and…

Brooke Kramer

Brooke Kramer serves as the Team Coordinator for the Washington, D.C., office. She assists with scheduling, event planning, office coordination, and project management. Brooke graduated from John…

Brooke Medina

Research Fellow

Brooke Medina is an ERLC research fellow and serves as vice president of Communications for the John Locke Foundation where she manages a team of talented…

Brooke Ritterbush

Brooke Ritterbush

Brooks Kimmey

Brooks has been pastoring at FBC Robinson since July of 2016. Prior to this, he served as a Student Minister in Allen, TX and a Pastoral…

Bruce Frank

Dr. Bruce Frank, Lead Pastor of Biltmore Baptist Church in Arden, NC, is a gifted communicator with a creative teaching style relevant to today’s culture. Bruce…

Bruce Ware

Bruce A. Ware is the T. Rupert and Lucille Coleman Professor of Christian Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Ware is a highly esteemed theologian and author…

Bryan Baise

Bryan Baise served as associate professor of Philosophy and Apologetics and program coordinator of Worldview and Apologetics at Boyce College. He was a college pastor for…

Bryan Loritts

Bryant Millsaps

Bryant Millsaps is the former Tennessee secretary of state and director of the state’s Higher Education Commission and former president/treasurer of Tennessee Baptist Children’s Homes. Millsaps, in…

Bryant Wright

Bryant Wright is the President of Send Relief, a compasson-based ministry that seeks to meet not only physical needs, but also spiritual needs of people all…

Bryne Palmer

Bryne Palmer was born and in Roswell, New Mexico before moving to Albuquerque at the age of 19 to attend the University of New Mexico.He worked…

Buddy Gray

Dr. Buddy Gray is the Senior Pastor of Hunter Street Baptist Church in Hoover, Ala. He has served in this role since 1986 and previously served…

Buster Brown

Buster Brown is the Senior Pastor of East Cooper Baptist Church in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina and a member of The Gospel Coalition Council. He earned…

Byron Day

Byron Day is the Senior Pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Laurel Maryland where he has served for over 26 years. He currently serves as president…

Byron McWilliams

Byron McWilliams is the lead pastor of First Baptist Church in Odessa, Texas.  He serves as a trustee of the International Mission Board of the Southern…

C. Ben Mitchell

Ben Mitchell, Ph.D. served as a research fellow of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and a member of the Ethics Committee of the Christian Medical…

Caleb Morell

Caleb Morell is a pastoral assistant at Capitol Hill Baptist Church and an M.Div. student at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Caleb Turner

Caleb Turner serves as the Equipping Pastor for the Mesquite Friendship Baptist Church in Mesquite, Texas. In addition to ministry, he also serves as an Executive…

Calum Miller

Cam Triggs

Cam Triggs serves as the Lead Pastor of Grace Alive. He began studies at University of Central Florida as a Religious Studies major and continued his education…

Cameron Hayner

Cameron Hayner

Cameron Presson

Cameron Presson is  an ERLC intern and senior at Belmont University pursuing a double major in Religious Studies and Communication Studies. With plans to pursue ministry…

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Candi Cushman

Candi Cushman, education analyst for Focus on the Family, is a leading national expert on education issues affecting public and private education, including school choice and…

Candice Watters

Candice Watters is the Fighter Verses blog editor. She is a wife and mom, and author of Get Married: What Women Can Do to Help it…

Carissa Early

Carissa Early is an editor and counselor with Gospel Care Collective. She focuses on providing a compassionate context for people to explore their stories and encounter God’s tender mercy. Carissa writes…

Carl Ellis

Carl Ellis Jr. currently works as an adjunct professor of theology and philosophy at Reformed Theological Seminary. He also served as an adjunct faculty member at the…

Carl Laferton

Carl Laferton is the author of the bestselling kids’ book The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross. His newest book, The God Contest, shows kids how…

Carl R. Trueman

Carl R. Trueman (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen) is professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College. He is an esteemed church historian and previously…

Carla Arriola

Carla Arriola was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, where her grandparents were missionaries with the IMB. There, she met the love of her life, Julio Arriola. After…

Carlotta White

Carlotta White

Psalm 139 Project Placement Coordinator

Carlotta White served as the ERLC’s Psalm 139 Project placement coordinator organizing ultrasound machine placements for pregnancy resource centers and coordinating dedication services. She has a…

Carmen Fowler LaBerge

Carmen LaBerge is a writer, speaker and host of the daily Christian talk radio show The Reconnect. She is also in her ninth year serving as the…

Carmen LaBerge

Carmen LaBerge is an author, speaker and host of the weekday Chrsitian talk radio show Mornings with Carmen LaBerge, airing live Monday-Friday through across the Faith…

Carol Graham

Carol Graham is the founder & CEO of Liberty Women’s Clinic.

Carol Hogue

Carolina Lumetta

Carolina Lumetta is a senior at Wheaton College (IL), studying English Writing and Political Science. She served as a public policy intern with the ERLC during…

Caroline Saunders

Caroline Saunders is a writer, pastor’s wife, and mother of three who believes in taking Jesus seriously and being un-serious about nearly everything else. She loves serving…

Carolyn McCulley

Carolyn McCulley is the author of three books and a contributor to the ESV Women’s Devotional Bible, as well as a frequent speaker at women’s ministry…

Cary Corley

Cary has experience in group counseling and individual therapy. He has worked at the Dallas Children‘s Advocacy Center and in the private practice sector. He obtained…

Casey B. Hough

Casey B. Hough (Ph.D., New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary) currently serves as director of Partnerships and Curriculum at World Hope Ministries International and assistant professor of…

Casey Hough

Casey B. Hough (Ph.D., New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary) currently serves as director of Partnerships and Curriculum at World Hope Ministries International and assistant professor of…

Casey Mattox

Casey Mattox, Esq., serves as senior counsel and the director of the Center for Academic Freedom with Alliance Defending Freedom. When Mattox first joined ADF in 2009,…

Casey McCall

Casey McCall is lead pastor at Ashland Avenue Baptist Church – Oldham County. He writes frequently for Prince on Preaching and the Oldham Era and has…

Cassie Pattillo

Cassie Pattillo is a student pastor’s wife, mom to two energetic boys, and hopeful adoptive mom to their daughter, growing in their hearts from India. She’s…

Catherine Boyle

Catherine Boyle is Mental Health Ministry Director for Key Ministry.

Catherine Glenn Foster

Catherine Glenn Foster is President & CEO of Americans United for Life, whose mission is advancing the human right to life in culture, law, and policy.

Catherine Hodge

Catherine Hodge is a family medicine physician from the U.S. She has served at Nkhoma Mission Hospital with her husband Dave and their three young daughters…

Catherine Parks

Catherine Parks writes and lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, two children, and a cute dog named Ollie. She's the author of Empowered and Strong, collections…

Cesar Perez

Cesar Y. Perez

Cesar Y. Perez serves as the Director for Hispanic Ministry at FBC Richmond, Ky. Born and raised in Cuba, he received a B.S. in Linguistics from…

Chad Ashby

Chad Ashby is the pastor of College Street Baptist Church in Newberry, South Carolina, where he lives with his wife and three boys. He is a graduate of…

Chad Chambers

Chad Chambers is the Executive Director of C.H.A.R.M. Prison Ministry in Houston, Texas. Chad has previously served as a Youth Pastor, Golf Professional, and regularly teaches as…

Chad Keck

Chad Keck serves as the Senior Pastor of FBC Kettering in Dayton, Ohio. He is married to Candace Keck and they have been blessed with four…

Chad Poe

Chad Poe is originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he received a degree in Secondary Education.…

Champ Thornton

Champ Thornton (Ph.D.) is an acquisitions editor at Crossway. He and his wife, Robben, live in Newark, Delaware, have been married since 1996, and enjoy being parents…

Chap Bettis

Charles Camosy

Charles C. Camosy is associate professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University. His work on ethics and policy moves beyond stale and lazy arguments which…

Charles Fowler

Charles Fowler serves as the Senior Pastor of Germantown Baptist Church in Germantown, TN. He served for sixteen years at Union University in various capacities including…

Charles L. Quarles

Charles L. Quarles (Ph.D., Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary) is professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is coauthor of The Cradle, the…

Charles R. Moore, Jr.

Pastor Charles R. Moore, Jr. serves as the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Paducah, Ky. Beyond Kentucky, Charles has shepherded congregations in California,…

Charles Stone

Charles Stone has been a pastor for 40 years in both the U.S. and Canada,and has authored six books and blogs at www.charlesstone.com. A lifelong learner, he…

Charlie Dates

Dr. Charlie Edward Dates is Senior Pastor at Progressive Baptist Church in Chicago, IL. In 2011, at age 30, he became the youngest Senior Pastor in…

Charmaine Yoest

Charmaine began her career in The White House during the Reagan Administration and served as a Senior Advisor to the 2008 Huckabee for President Campaign. She…

Chase Stevens

Chase Stevens is a law student at the Wake Forest University School of Law and a graduate of Liberty University, where he received his B.S. in…

Chelsea

Chelsea Sobolik

Chelsea Sobolik serves as Director of Government Relations for World Relief, a a global Christian humanitarian organization and the largest Evangelical refugee resettlement in the U.S.…

Chelsea Stanley

Chelsea Stanley is a child of God, wife, and mom of three young boys. She loves encouraging women with the truth of the gospel at her…

Chelsen Vicari

Chelsen Vicari serves as the Evangelical Program Director for the Institute on Religion and Democracy. She earned her Masters of Arts in Government from Regent University…

Chelsey Youman

Chelsey Youman serves the pro-life coalition by advocating for pro-life policies and jurisprudence, mobilizing local grassroots to strengthen the pro-life movement and its footprint.

Chet Harvey

Chet Harvey is the discipleship pastor at Hebron Church in Dacula, Georgia. He has formerly pastored or been on staff at churches in North Carolina, Florida,…

Chip Dean

Chip Hutcheson

Chris Boggus

Chris Boggus has served as the Executive Pastor at Grace Church in Waco, Texas, for three years. Prior to joining this young church plant, Chris served…

Chris Brooks

Chris Brooks is the senior pastor of Evangel Ministries, a thriving 1600-member church in the heart of Detroit. Chris is also a Dean at Moody Theological Seminary…

Chris Castaldo

Chris Castaldo is lead pastor of New Covenant Church, Naperville. He is author of Talking with Catholics About the Gospel and coauthor of The Unfinished Reformation:…

Chris Cipollone

Chris Cipollone is a pastor, speaker, teacher, and author. He currently serves in Sydney, Australia. In addition to this work, Chris is the founding director of Biblical…

Chris Gaynor

Chris Gaynor is a graduate of Wake Forest University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and he serves as pastor of Prayer and Worship at the Summit…

Chris Horst

Since starting in 2006, Chris Horst has served in a variety of roles at HOPE International. As vice president of development, Chris employs his passion for…

Chris Lewis

Chris Lewis is the pastor of Foothill Church in Glendora, California. Foothill Church joined the Southern Baptist Convention in 2017. Chris received a B.A. from Evangel…

Chris Marlink

Chris Martin

Chris Martin, author of “Terms of Service,” is a content marketing editor at Moody Publishers and a social media, marketing and communications consultant. He has led…

Chris Moles

Chris Morphew

Chris Morphew is an author, teacher, and school chaplain living in Sydney, Australia.

Chris Osborne

Chris Smith

Chris H. Smith Jr. is the assistant director of Student Life at Boyce College where he has adjunct taught systematic theology. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D.…

Chris Williamson

Dr. Chris Williamson, also affectionately known as “Pastor Chris,” is the founder and Senior Pastor of Strong Tower Bible Church, a multiracial fellowship in Nashville, Tennessee.…

Christiana Holcomb

Christiana Holcomb, Esq., serves as legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom.

Christiana Kiefer

Christiana Kiefer is senior counsel with the Center for Conscience Initiatives at Alliance Defending Freedom.

Christie Mac Segars

Christie Mac Segars is the vice president of Domestic Programs. She holds a Bachelors from Samford University and a Masters in Social Work from The University…

Christina Edmondson

Christina Fox

Christina Fox writes for a number of websites and ministries such as True Woman and Desiring God Ministries. She is the author of A Heart Set…

Christine Hoover

Christopher Ash

Christopher Ash is writer-in-residence at Tyndale House in Cambridge, England.

Christopher Divietro

Chris was raised in southern New Jersey and attended Allegheny College where he met his wife, Liz. Liz taught middle school science. They have been married…

Christopher Summers

Christopher Summers is managing editor of Open Doors USA, a global ministry dedicated to connecting the Church in the United States with their brothers and sisters…

Christopher Yuan

Dr. Christopher Yuan has taught the Bible at Moody Bible Institute for over eight years and his speaking ministry on faith and sexuality has reached five…

Christy Britton

Christy Britton is a wife and mom to four boys. She has a degree in Finance from Louisiana State University. She writes Bible study curriculum for…

Chuck Johnson

Chuck serves as president and CEO of the National Council For Adoption.  He is responsible for all aspects of NCFA, including management as well as implementing…

Cindi Boston

A long-time leader in the pregnancy help community at the local, state and national levels, Cindi Boston was named Heartbeat International's Vice President in January 2016.…

Cindy Asmussen

Cindy Asmussen is the Ethics & Religious Liberty Advisor for the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention and sits on the Texas Ethics and Religious Liberty Committee.…

Cindy Hopkins

Cindy Hopkins is the Vice President of Center Services and Client Care at Care Net. 

CJ Rhodes

The son of famed civil rights attorney Carroll Rhodes Sr., Rev. Rhodes has traveled to two Latin American countries, ministered nationally, has published columns that have…

Claire Gibson

Claire Gibson is a writer based in Nashville, TN. Her debut novel, Beyond the Point, was a Book of the Month pick in April 2019. Her…

Cliff Lea

Cliff is the lead pastor for both teaching and church leadership at FBC Leesburg in Florida, and has served there since 2007. He is a graduate…

Clint Darst

Clint Darst is currently finishing up his M.Div from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC. He spent 7 years working for Campus Outreach as…

Clint Little

Clint is a graduate of Southeastern Seminary. He is a Pastor of Discipleship at North Wake Church in Wake Forest, NC. Clint also hosts a podcast…

Clint Pressley

Clint Pressley is the pastor at Hickory Grove Baptist Church Charlotte. He and his wife Connie have two sons.

Cody Barnhart

Cody Glen Barnhart is director of music and media at First Baptist Alcoa in Alcoa, Tennessee. He is a graduate of Spurgeon College, previously interned at…

Cody Brumley

Cody Brumley serves as the Pastor of Ministries and Mission at Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock, AR. He and his wife, Breanna, have three children…

Cody Montgomery

Cody Montgomery serves as an elder at Del Ray Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, and is the executive director of Frontlines Ministries, an organization that aims…

Cole Huffman

Cole Huffman and his wife Lynn have five children: Marshall, Helen, Holly, Caley Kate and Colson. Cole is a graduate of the University of North Alabama,…

Cole Mitchell

Cole is currently an undergraduate student at Texas A&M Univerity. Upon graduation, he intends to commission into the Marine Corps and then attend seminary prior to a…

Coleman Ford

Coleman Ford (Ph.D., Th.M.) is founder and editor of Center of Ancient Christian Studies and Fides et Humilitas: The Journal of the Center for Ancient Christian…

Coleman M. Ford

Coleman Philley

Coleman Philley is the Senior Pastor of Katy’s First Baptist Church. Born and raised on the eastside of Houston, he earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering…

Colleen Chao

Colleen Elisabeth Chao is a freelance editor and the author of the children’s book on suffering, Out of the Shadow World. She blogs about God’s kindness to her…

Collin Garbarino

Collin Garbarino is the Director of Graduate Programs in Humanities and Associate Professor of History at Houston Baptist University. He got his PhD and MA in History at Louisiana State…

Collin Hansen

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Connor Bales

Connor Bales has served at New Beginnings Baptist church in Longview, Texas, since August of 2012. He currently serves as Lead Pastor and prior to that…

Conrad Close

Conrad Close formally served as the Digital Marketing Manager. Conrad graduated from Kennesaw State University with a B.A. in Public Relations. He lives in Chicago with…

Cooper Shull

Cooper Shull is from Ringgold, Georgia, and is a senior at Samford University majoring in Finance. He serves on the SGA executive board as treasurer and…

Corey Fawcett

Corey Fawcett will be a Ph.D. finance student at Rice University, and he has worked in venture capital focusing on blockchain technology.

Corey Smith

Corey is married to his high school sweetheart, Hope. They are blessed to have two children, Penny Jo and Conrad. He received his M.Div. and is…

Cory D. Higdon

Cory D. Higdon (Ph.D., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is an adjunct professor of history and humanities at Boyce College. He serves as the director of…

Courtney L. Moore

Courtney L. Moore is a pastor’s wife who blogs to inspire others with fresh hope from God’s word, especially as it relates to motherhood and ministry.…

Courtney Moore

Courtney Moore is the founder and president of Women & Work, an organization that inspires women to step into their God-given calling and view their work…

Courtney Reissig

Courtney Reissig is the Managing Director for Risen Motherhood, as well as the author of three books (most recently, Teach Me to Feel Worshiping Through the…

Crawford Loritts

Crawford was ordained to the ministry in March 1972. He attended Cairn University in Philadelphia, PA graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Bible with…

Curtis Cook

Curtis Cook has served as the Senior Pastor of Hope Fellowship Church in Cambridge, Mass., since the church was planted in 2003. Curtis also serves as…

Curtis Jones

Curtis is the Senior Pastor of Bayou City Fellowship in Houston, TX. In 2011, He, his wife Amanda, and 60 friends joined together with a singular focus:…

D. A. Horton

D.A. Carson

D.A. Carson is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He is a founding member and currently the president of…

D.J. Jenkins

D. J. Jenkins is the pastor of Anthology Church of Studio City in Los Angeles, California.

D.J. Jordan

D.J. Jordan is the Communications Director in the Office of United States Senator James Lankford (Okla.). Prior to coming to Capitol Hill in 2008, D.J. worked…

Dan Dumas

Dan McConchie

Dan McConchie is the State Senator for the 26th District of Illinois. Previously, Dan worked for non-profit groups in states across the country as an advocate for…

Dan Nichols

Dan Nichols is the lead pastor of Grace Christian Fellowship in Cortland, New York. He’s married to his best friend Joy, and they have two boys…

Dan Peterson

Dan Powers

Dan Powers is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer. He has been with Children’s Advocacy Center of Collin County…

Dan Strange

Daniel Strange is college director at Oakhill Theological College in London where he lectures on culture, religion, and public theology. Dan is married to Elly, and…

Dan Szy

Daniel Szy is a researcher and writer at the University of Missouri and holds an MA in church ministries from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Dan Trippie

Dan Trippie has been married to his wife Gina for 24 years and is the father of twin sons. After ministering in the Southern U.S., Dan…

Dana Hall McCain

Dana Hall McCain currently serves as state director for a U.S. senator. For year, she wrote a weekly column centered on the topics of faith, culture,…

Dane Hays

Dane Hays has served in counseling and discipleship ministry for over twenty years. He currently serves in Decatur, AL full time as a pastor at his…

Dani Park

Dani Park was born and raised near Rochester, New York, with her two siblings. God saved Dani in college through an on-campus ministry that primarily served…

Daniel Akin

Daniel Lowell "Danny" Akin (born January 2, 1957) is the sixth president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and the College at Southeastern in Wake Forest, North Carolina. A leader…

Daniel Darling

Daniel Darling

Dan Darling is the director of the Land Center for Cultural Engagement for Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is a columnist for World Magazine and a…

Daniel Hostetter

Daniel Hostetter serves as an intern in the ERLC’s Washington, D.C. office. He is pursuing a degree in Government: Politics & Policy at Liberty University and…

Daniel J. Hurst

Daniel J. Hurst is director of Medical Professionalism, Ethics, and Humanities and assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Rowan University School of Osteopathic…

Daniel K. Williams

Daniel Patterson

Daniel Patterson is former Executive Vice President of the ERLC. He holds a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his…

Daniel Porter

Daniel R. Heimbach

Daniel R. Heimbach, senior professor of Christian ethics at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, is an ordained Southern Baptist minister, fellow of the SBC Ethics and Religious…

Daniel Rentie

Daniel Rentie is College Associate at Frisco First Baptist Church in Frisco, Texas. Paradigm College Ministry was created in September of 2019, with a mission to…

Daniel Suhr

Daniel R. Suhr is an attorney and counselor licensed to practice law in Wisconsin. He holds a J.D., cum laude, from Marquette University Law School and…

Daniel T. Porter

Daniel T. Porter is a Digital Content Manager based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Daniel and his wife, Morgan, are active members of Rio Church, a church…

Danilo Santiago

Danilo Santiago is the founding and lead pastor of the Covenant Christian Church since 2011. Dan migrated to Chicago, Ill., in 1998 and served as church planter/pastor…

Danny Akin

Dr. Daniel L. Akin became the sixth president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary on January 15, 2004, after a unanimous vote of election by the Seminary’s…

Danny Huerta

Dante D. Wright, I

Dr. Dante D. Wright has served as the Senior Pastor of Sweet Home Baptist Church of Round Rock for 13 years. He and his wife Tracy…

Darby Strickland

Darby is a Christian Counselor who works with individuals, families, couples and groups facing a variety of issues.  Darby was trained at Westminster Theological Seminary where she obtained…

Darla Wilkinson

Darla Wilkinson graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and is the wife of a wonderful husband. 

Daryl Crouch

Daryl has served in local pastoral ministry for over 25 years. He has been the Senior Pastor of Green Hill Church in Mt. Juliet, Tenn., since…

Dave Miller

Dave Miller serves as senior pastor of Southern Hills Baptist Church in Sioux City, Iowa. He served as President of the 2017 SBC Pastors’ Conference. He…

Dave Owens

Dave currently serves as the Executive Director of Harbor Network, a network of like-minded churches across the U.S. helping pastors launch, lead, and multiply thriving, gospel-centered…

David “Gunner” Gundersen

David ‘Gunner’ Gundersen is a pastor at BridgePoint Bible Church in Houston. You can connect with Gunner through his blog or Twitter.

David Boudia

David Boudia is an American diver. Boudia was named to the 2008 U.S. Olympic team in the 10-meter platform and in the synchronized 10-meter platform event with former synchro partner Thomas Finchum.…

David Closson

David Closson, M.Div., serves as the Director of Christian Ethics and Biblical Worldview at Family Research Council where he researches and writes on issues related to…

David Crosby

Dr. David Crosby is the Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church, New Orleans, LA. David is a graduate of Baylor University, where he majored in both…

David Daleiden

David Daleiden is a citizen journalist with nearly a decade of experience in conducting investigative research on the abortion industry. In 2013, David started The Center for…

David Dockery

David S. Dockery is distinguished professor of Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and president of the International Alliance for Christian Education.

David Dunham

David serves as pastor of Counseling and Discipleship at Cornerstone Baptist Church in the Detroit metro. He is the author Addictive Habits: Changing for Good (P&R,…

David E. Crosby

David E. Crosby, pastor of First Baptist Church of New Orleans, has often encountered inquiries of faith throughout his long career in ministry. Serving as a…

David E. Prince

David E. Prince is pastor of preaching and vision at Ashland Avenue Baptist Church in Lexington, Ky., and assistant professor of Christian preaching at the Southern Baptist Theological…

David French

David French is a staff writer at National Review, an attorney (concentrating his practice in constitutional law and the law of armed conflict), and a veteran…

David Johnson

David Johnson is the Executive Director of the Arizona Mission Network of Southern Baptists.

David Kinnaman

David Kinnaman is the author of the bestselling books Good Faith, You Lost Me and unChristian. He is president of Barna Group, a leading research and…

David Koyzis

David Koyzis is a Global Scholar with Global Scholars Canada.  He is the author of the award-winning Political Visions and Illusions (InterVarsity Press, 2nd ed., 2019) and We Answer to…

David Lockard

David Murray

David Murray (DMin, Reformation International Theological Seminary) is professor of Old Testament and practical theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary and pastor of Grand Rapids Free…

David Platt

David Platt is president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board. David’s first love in ministry is making disciples, sharing, showing, and teaching God’s Word…

David Powlison

David Powlison (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is a teacher, a counselor, and the executive director of the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation. He is also the senior…

David Roach

David Roach is chief national correspondent for Baptist Press, the Southern Baptist Convention's news service. BP reports on missions, ministry and witness advanced through the Cooperative…

David Uth

David Uth is senior pastor at First Baptist Orlando.

David W. Jones

Professor of Christian Ethics at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Comments on the Bible at redeemedmind.com.

David W. Whitlock

David Whitlock is the president of Oklahoma Baptist University. Active in a variety of professional organizations, Whitlock has served as a consultant-evaluator with the Higher Learning Commission since…

Dean Inserra

Dean Inserra is the lead pastor of City Church in his hometown of Tallahassee, Fla. He has a passion to bring gospel clarity to the under-reached…

Deb Gorton

Dr. Deb Gorton is a clinical psychologist who works as a change agent for individuals, organizations, and emerging leaders, helping them refine, embrace, and thrive in…

Debbie Bethancourt

Deepak Reju

Denise Harle

Denise Harle serves as senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, where she is a member of the Center for Life. In this role, Harle focuses her…

Dennis Greeson

Dennis Greeson is the associate director of the BibleMesh Institute and a Ph.D. candidate in Systematic Theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He lives in Nashville,…

Dennis Kim

Dr. Dennis Manpoong Kim is the senior pastor of Global Mission Church of Greater Washington (GMC). He has been serving faithfully as the senior pastor of…

Dennis Kwok

Dennis Rainey

Denny Burk

Research Fellow

Denny Burk is professor of Biblical Studies at Boyce College, which is the undergraduate school of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He also…

Derek Bekebrede

Derek attended Harvard University where he wrote for the Harvard Crimson.

Derek Rishmawy

Derek Rishmawy is a Ph.D student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School studying Systematic Theology. He's a regular contributor to sites like The Gospel Coalition, Christ and Pop…

Deron Spoo

Deron Spoo is the lead pastor of First Baptist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Since he became pastor in 2000, Deron has helped First Tulsa transition from…

Derrick DeLain

Derrick DeLain is currently planting Proclamation Church in Nashville, Tenn. He has been married to Rachel for ten years and they have two children. The DeLains…

Derrick Morgan

Derrick Morgan was the former Vice President for the Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity and Chief of Staff for Ben Sasse, and he is currently…

Devin Maddox

Devin Maddox is the trade book publisher at B&H Publishing Group. He is also a Ph.D. student in Applied Theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, focusing…

Dhati Lewis

Dhati is the Lead Pastor at Blueprint Church in Atlanta, Georgia. He was born and raised in California and later moved to Texas where he completed his…

Diana Chandler

Chandler has been a freelance writer since 2008 and now works for Baptist Press. Her work for Baptist Press has included coverage of last year's hurricane-related flooding…

Diane Black

As a registered nurse, small businesswoman and former educator, Congressman Diane Black brings a unique and dynamic perspective to her work in Congress. Diane’s faith in…

Diane Langberg

DJ Jenkins

DJ Jenkins grew up east of Los Angeles in Redlands, Calif. During his college years at Cal Poly Pomona, DJ met a great group of students…

Dominique McKay

Don Bosch

 Don Bosch has received Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating (AV). He previously served for six years on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the…

Don Buckley

Emeritus Fellow

Don Buckley is a Family Medicine Specialist and founding member of the ERLC’s Research Institute.

Donald Whitney

Don Whitney has been Professor of Biblical Spirituality and Associate Dean at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky since 2005. Before that, he held a similar position…

Donna Gaines

Donna Gaines is a Pastor’s wife, former educator (M.Ed. from Texas Woman’s University), Bible teacher, author of four books, and editor of A Daily Women’s Devotional.…

Dorena Williamson

Dorena Williamson is a bridge builder, speaker, writer, and worship leader who knows the power and beauty of racial awareness. She and her husband, Dr. Chris…

Doug Carlson

Doug Carlson serves as the Leland House Office Manager. In this role, Doug oversees the administrative and organizational needs of the Washington office. Doug received his…

Doug Hixson

Doug Hixson is the founding Pastor of Connection Church. He has been married to Dana for 22 years and together they are raising two kids. Doug…

Doug Phillips

Doug Phillips serves as the Executive Director of For the City, a national nonprofit helping individuals, churches, nonprofits and businesses bring justice and restoration to their…

Drew Dyck

Drew Dyck (M.A. in Theology) is an editor at Moody Publishers and the former managing editor of Leadership Journal. His work has been featured in USA…

Drew Griffin

Drew Griffin serves as Pastor at Cross Church in New York City. Drew’s family began its American journey 100 years ago on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.…

Dustin Benge

Dustin Bruce

Dustin Bruce

Research Fellow

Dustin Bruce is the dean of Boyce College and assistant professor of Christian Theology and Church History. Formerly, Bruce was associate vice president for spiritual formation…

Dustin Messer

Dustin Messer teaches theology at Legacy Christian Academy in Frisco, Texas. Additionally, Dustin is senior fellow of theology and culture at the Center for Cultural Leadership…

E. Stephen Burnett

E. Stephen Burnett creates sci-fi and fantasy as well as nonfiction, such as The Pop Culture Parent: Helping Kids Engage Their World for Christ (coauthored with…

E.B. Oak

E.B. Oak is an international human rights attorney who worked at a women’s legal center in China with women who were forced to undergo coerced and…

Ed Litton

Ed Litton serves as the 63rd President of the Southern Baptist Convention. Litton was elected on June 15, 2021, at the SBC Annual Meeting in Nashville,…

Ed Seay

Ed Seay is a native of Houston, Texas. He has served in local church ministry since 1967. He holds degrees from Houston Baptist University, Southwestern Baptist Theological…

Edgar Aponte

Edgar Aponte served as director of Hispanic leadership development at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Prior to earning a master of divinity at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,…

Eileen Moore

Eileen Moore graduated with honors from Northeastern University with a B.A. in biology and a certification in respiratory therapy. She attended Wake Forest University School of…

Elaine Sommerville

Elaine Sommerville is a CPA and serves as an editorial advisor for ChurchLawAndTax.com. She is also the author of Church Compensation: From Strategic Plan to Compliance (2018,…

Eli Morris

Dr. Eli Morris received his Master of Divinity with honors from Memphis Theological Seminary and his Doctor of Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.…

Eli Pattat

Eli Pattat is a student at the University of Memphis and a former intern at the ERLC.

Elicia Horton

Elicia Horton is currently serving alongside her husband, D.A. Horton, in Long Beach, California, as a church planter. She is a mother of three, former home…

Elisabeth Doherty-Astle

Elisabeth Doherty-Astle works for the University of Derby where she implemented a specialist Mentor Scheme for the Law students, built the Judicial Shadowing Scheme, and has done…

Elisabeth Elliot

Elisabeth Elliot was one of the most influential Christian women of our time. For a half century, her best selling books, timeless teachings and courageous faith have…

Elise Hilton

Elise is responsible for Acton’s social media, along with researching and writing for Acton’s blog. With a M.A. in world religions, she has a background in…

Eliza Huie

Eliza Huie

Eliza Huie is a licensed counselor and author. She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling and has advanced certificates in biblical counseling from The Christian…

Elizabeth Bristow

Press Secretary

Elizabeth Bristow serves as the press secretary for the ERLC. Elizabeth oversees public relations and media operations for the organization. She received a B.A. in Public…

Elizabeth Brock

Elizabeth Brock moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 2016 to work as a sells rep for a local music label. She enjoys writing in her free time.…

Elizabeth Graham

Elizabeth Graham

Elizabeth Graham serves as CEO for Life Collective, Inc. Elizabeth is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. She and her…

Elizabeth Hyndman

Elizabeth Hyndman reads, writes, and tweets. Officially, she’s a Social Media Strategist at LifeWay. She earned her MA from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and her…

Elizabeth Oates

Elizabeth Oates is an author, blogger, and speaker whose family tree was plagued with generations of divorce, dysfunction, and brokenness. Today she advocates for healthy marriages…

Elizabeth Selle

Elizabeth is a Christ-follower, who desires to help young people walk with Jesus Christ. Elizabeth graduated from Cairn University with her M.S. in Counseling and B.A.…

Ellen Dykas

Ellen oversees the Philadelphia office’s ministry to women. Her ministry is focused on discipleship with women who are struggling with sexual and relational sins in their…

Elli Oswald

Elli Oswald is the executive director of the Faith to Action Initiative, a coalition of organizations focused on promoting best practices in care for orphans and…

Emily Andrews

Emily Chapman Richards

Emily Chapman Richards serves as Show Hope’s executive director. She has enjoyed watching Show Hope grow from a dream in her parents’ hearts to an organization…

Emily Colson

Emily Colson is a popular speaker, and author of the award winning book, Dancing with Max. Emily speaks in churches and organizations nationwide, and has appeared on numerous…

Emily Gehman

Emily Gehman is a storytelling coach from the greater Detroit area. She holds a B.S. in Bible & Counseling from Clarks Summit University and an M.A.…

Emily Greene

Emily Greene graduated with a B.A. from Evangel University. She is a writer for Prison Fellowship. 

Ender Palencia

Ender Palencia is the Multi-Site Pastor and Grand Prairie Campus Pastor at Fielder Church in Arlington, Texas. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Carson-Newman…

Eric Baxter

Eric Baxter is vice president and senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

Eric Brown

Eric Brown is a photographer based in Nashville, Tennessee. 

Eric Costanzo

Eric Costanzo has served as Pastor of South Tulsa Baptist Church since May 2016. South Tulsa has developed a multi-faceted ministry to international and refugee families,…

Eric Mason

Dr. Eric Mason aka “Pastor E” is the founder and pastor of Epiphany Fellowship in Philadelphia, PA. He and his wife, Yvette, have three sons, Immanuel,…

Eric Mayo

Eric Mayo is a research and operations associate. In his role, he assists with administrative and research needs within the Office of the President. He also…

Eric Ortlund

Eric Ortlund lives in London, England, where he teaches Old Testament at Oak Hill Theological College. He and his dear wife, Erin, have two lovely teenagers.…

Eric Ramsey

Eric Teetsel

Eric Weatherbee

Eric Weatherbee is a former health industry administrator who lives in Maryville, Tennessee, with his wife and kids. They have a passion for missions and foster…

Erich Bridges

Erich Bridges earned his B.A. from Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a writer based in Richmond, Va., with over 30 years experience in Baptist journalism.

Erick Erickson

Ericka Andersen

Ericka Andersen is a freelance writer. Her first book, Leaving Cloud 9: The True Story of a Life Resurrected From the Ashes of Poverty, Trauma and…

Erik Cummings

Erik Cummings serves as the lead pastor of the New Life Church of Carol City in Miami, Fla. Additionally, Erik serves as President of the Florida…

Erik Parks

Erik Parks is married to author Catherine Parks and has two children. He is a Nashville filmmaker whose debut feature film, “Why We Breathe” is currently…

Erik Reed

Erik is the founding and lead pastor of The Journey Church in Lebanon, Tennessee. He has a B.A. in Religious Studies from Western Kentucky University and…

Erik Stanley

Erik W. Stanley, Esq., serves with Alliance Defending Freedom as senior counsel and director of the Center for Christian Ministries.

Erin Davis

Erin is a speaker, author and blogger who addresses women of all ages nationwide and is passionately committed to sharing God’s Truth with others. She is the mother of…

Erin Hawley

Erin Hawley is a wife, mom to two small boys, and some-time lawyer. She is also an award-winning law professor at the University of Missouri, Yale-trained…

Erin Roach

Erin is a writer, wife, and mom.

Erin Straza

Erin Straza is a contemplative writer, heartfelt speaker, and redeemed dreamer. She is managing editor of Christ and Pop Culture Magazine and co-host of the Persuasion…

ERLC

ERLC Executive Committee

ERLC Intern

Occassionally, our summer interns contribute to and author articles for our site. 

ERLC Staff

The staff of the ERLC strive to bring hope to the public square through Research, Policy, and Resources concentrated in four areas: life, religious liberty, marriage…

Esther Fleece

Esther Fleece is an international speaker and writer recognized among Christianity Today’s “Top 50 Women Shaping the Church and Culture” and CNN’s “Five Women in Religion…

Esther Smith

Esther Smith, M.A., is a biblical counselor at Life Counseling Center Ministries and is a licensed clinical professional counselor in the state of Maryland. She is…

Ethan Holsteen

Ethan and Michaela Holsteen have been married since 2016. They met in Louisville, Kentucky, when they were both studying Biblical Counseling at Boyce College. Ethan currently…

Ethan Lamb

Ethan Lamb served as an intern for the ERLC. He is studying History and Political Science at The University of Alabama, and is a native of…

Evan Lenow

Evan Lenow

Research Fellow

Evan Lenow serves as director of Church and Minister Relations and associate professor of Christian Studies at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. He is also the…

Evangelical Immigration Table

In June 2012, several national entities representing evangelical Christians, including the ERLC, formed the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT) to encourage a national discussion about immigration rooted…

Executive Committee of the ERLC

Faye Scott

Faye Scott serves as Minister to Children at First Baptist New Orleans. She earned a Master of Christian Education and Doctor of Education degree at New…

Felix L. Sermon, Jr.

Felix L. Sermon, Jr. was born in Negros Occidental, Philippines. He served as a missionary of the North American Mission Board as Chaplain of the United…

Frank Page

Frank Sommerville

Frank Sommerville is a CPA and attorney. He also serves as an editorial advisor for ChurchLawAndTax.com.

Fred Luter

Fred J. Luter Jr. (born 1956 November 11 in New Orleans) is a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). He was elected on 2012…

Freda Bush

Freda McKissic Bush, M.D., FACOG has been deeply involved in women’s health issues for more than four decades. In 1968, she was a clinical instructor in…

Freddy T. Wyatt

Freddy Wyatt currently serves as the pastor of Real Life Church in San Diego. Freddy also was privileged to serve as a contributing author to the…

Gabe Lyons

Gabriel Stovall

Gabriel Stovall writes for the North American Mission Board.

Galen Jones

Assistant Professor of Church Planting, Floyd K. Clark Chair of Christian Leadership at Oklahoma Baptist University. 

Garrett Kell

Garrett Kell has served as Lead Pastor of Del Ray Baptist Church since 2012. Garrett grew up in Berkeley Springs, W.V. He attended Virginia Tech where…

Garrick D. Conner

Garrick D. Conner is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist. He serves as discipleship pastor at Park Hill Baptist Church in North Little…

Gary Frost

For 18 years Gary Frost served as senior pastor of the Rising Star Baptist Church in Youngstown Ohio. He has served two terms as president of the State…

Gary Haugen

Gary L. Shultz Jr.

Gary L. Shultz Jr. is the senior pastor at First Baptist Church Tallahassee. Shultz has a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and received his…

Gary Lancaster

Gary Lancaster serves as the Audio Producer for the ERLC. Gary’s roles include recording, editing and producing all ERLC podcasts and audio content. Gary has a Bachelors of Science…

Gary Shultz

Gary Shultz is the Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church in Tallahassee, Florida. Gary also teaches theology at Baptist Bible Theological Seminary and Liberty University, and…

Gavin Ortlund

Gavin Ortlund is a husband, father, minister, and visiting scholar at Reasons to Believe. He writes regularly at gavinortlund.com

George Wright

George Wright serves as Senior Pastor of Shandon Baptist Church in Columbia, S.C. George is a graduate of the University of South Carolina (Business Administration) and…

Giancarlo Montemayor

Giancarlo Montemayor is one of the pastors at High Pointe Baptist Church in Austin, Texas, where he lives with his wife Marcela. He is an leader…

Gina Trippie

Gina and her husband, Dan, have faithfully raised twins sons. She is the author of Peace for an Anxious Woman’s Heart and co-author of He Said, She Said, God…

Glenn Packiam

Glenn Packiam is one of the associate senior pastors at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the lead pastor of New Life Downtown, a congregation of New…

Glenn Stanton

Glenn T. Stanton is the director of Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family. He debates and lectures extensively on the issues of gender, sexuality,…

Grace Hody

Grace Hody is a Master of Divinity student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Her theological interests include Old Testament Studies, Analytic Theology,…

Grace Liu

Grace serves as Donor Relations and Communications Coordinator at The Field School in Chicago, Illinois. She received a B.S. in Community Leadership & Development and Violin…

Grace Sigmon

Grace Sigmon has served as an intern for 127 Worldwide through high school and now in college. She is currently studying nursing at the University of…

Gracilynn Hanson

Gracilynn Hanson has her Ph.D. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, writes freelance, and is a stay-at-home parent.

Grant Castleberry

Grant Castleberry serves as the Executive Director for CBMW. He is also a Ph.D. student in Church History at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is Marine…

Grant Ethridge

Dr. Grant Ethridge is the Senior Pastor of Liberty Baptist Church in Hampton Roads, Va. He holds six academic degrees, including a Doctor of Ministry and…

Grant Gaines

Grant Gaines is the senior pastor of Belle Aire Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He is married to Melisa and has five children. He is a…

Greg Forster

Greg Forster serves as the director of the Oikonomia Network at the Center for Transformational Churches, and is a visiting assistant professor of faith and culture…

Greg Gilbert

Greg Gilbert earned his BA from Yale University and his MDiv from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of the book "What is…

Greg Glod

Greg Glod is the senior policy analyst for the Center for Effective Justice at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and the manager of state initiatives for Right…

Greg Matte

Gregg Matte is the senior pastor of Houston’s First Baptist Church. Before coming to Houston in 2004, Gregg founded Breakaway Ministries at Texas A&M University —…

Greg Pickering

Greg Pickering is Lead Pastor of Brazos Pointe Fellowship in Lake Jackson, Texas. He supports and coaches church planters through the Houston Church Planting Network and…

Greg Smalley

Greg Thompson

Gregg Allison

Gregg R. Allison

Senior Fellow

Gregg R. Allison serves as senior fellow focused on issues of marriage and family. He received his Doctorate of Philosophy from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and…

Gregory Alan Thornbury

Gregory Love

Gretchen Ronnevik

Gretchen Ronnevik loves writing about rich theology rooted in real life. She is a mom to six kids that range from preschooler to teenager. She works as…

Guest Contributor

H.B. Charles

H.B. Charles, Jr.

H.B. Charles is the Pastor-Teacher at the Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church of Jacksonville and Orange Park, Fla. Prior to joining the Shiloh Church, he led the Mt. Sinai…

Halim Suh

Hanna Welch

Hanna is a public school teacher who is passionate about making disciples for Christ. She and her husband served as IMB missionaries for 3 years in…

Hannah Anderson

Hannah Anderson lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with her husband, Nathan, and their three children, ages 12-17. They have been married for 20…

Hannah Daniel

Director of Public Policy

Hannah Daniel serves as the ERLC’s director of public policy, representing the policy interests of Southern Baptists to government through advocacy and education. Originally from Tennessee,…

Hannah Hall

Hannah C. Hall is a bestselling author and speaker with over one million books in print. Her newest book, Penguin and Moose Brave the Night, releases…

Hannah Hough

Hannah is a registered nurse who resides in Houston, Texas, with her family. Her husband, Casey, serves as the lead pastor at Copperfield Church. She is a…

Harrison Anderson

Hank graduated from the Air Force Academy and currently serves as an Air Force Officer. He lives with his wife and two children and is pursuing…

Heath Lambert

Dr. Heath Lambert is the Executive Director at the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors.

Heather Rice-Minus

Heather Rice-Minus is the vice president of government affairs and church mobilization for Prison Fellowship, the nation’s largest Christian nonprofit serving prisoners, former prisoners, and their…

Heather Thompson

Heather Thompson serves as director of Communications for The Paradox Church in Fort Worth, Texas. She loves country living with her husband, Brad, and their three…

Herbie N

Herbie Newell

Herbie Newell is president & executive director of Lifeline Children’s Services and its ministry arms. He holds a Master’s of Business Administration in Accounting from Samford…

Hershael York

Howard Griffith

Hugh Whelchel

Hunter Baker

Research Fellow

Hunter Baker, J.D., Ph.D., serves as provost and dean of the faculty of North Greenville University. He is the author of three books (The End of…

Hunter Leavine

Hunter Melton

Hunter Melton serves at the Church at Avenue South, a regional campus of Brentwood Baptist Church, as the Discipleship Minister in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee.…

Ian Harber

Ian Harber is a writer and works at Endeavor. He amplifies the messages of digital ministries through social media and building partnerships. He’s been published by The…

Ian K. Smith

Ian K. Smith is the principal of Christ College, Sydney, where he also teaches Greek and New Testament. He has also served in parish ministry and as…

Isaac Whitney

Isaac Whitney is a student at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and serves as a pastoral intern at Christ Church West Chester in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

J. Alan Branch

Research Fellow

James Alan Branch is a professor of Christian Ethics at Midwestern Seminary where he has served since 2001. He earned his undergraduate degree from Kennesaw State…

J. Josh Smith

J. Josh Smith is the lead pastor of MacArthur Boulevard Baptist Church in Irving, Texas. 

J. Lawrence Turner

J. Mark Bowers

J. Mark Bowers writes and trains for the Chalmers Center, a church-equipping organization focused on breaking the spiritual, social, and material bonds of poverty. Having lived…

J. Matthew Pinson

J Matthew Pinson is president at Welch College in Nashville, Tennessee. A native of Pensacola, Florida, he attended Welch College in the 1980s and went on to…

J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear is the pastor of The Summit Church, in Raleigh-Durham, N.C. He completed his Ph.D. in theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he is…

J.R. Vassar

JR Vassar is lead pastor of Church at the Cross in Grapevine, Texas. He and his wife, Ginger, have three children, and he is the author…

J.T. English

JT English is a pastor at The Village Church in Dallas, Texas, where he leads The Village Church Institute. He holds a PhD in systematic theology from The…

Jack Graham

Dr. Jack Graham is the pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church, one of the nation’s largest, most dynamic congregations. Dr. Graham has served two terms as president of…

Jack Klumpenhower

Jack Klumpenhower is the author of Show Them Jesus: Teaching the Gospel to Kids and co-author of the small-group study The Gospel-Centered Parent. He lives in…

Jackie Hill Perry

Jackson McNeece

Jackson McNeece is a Master of Divinity student from Oklahoma City, OK. In May of 2020, Jackson graduated from Baylor University with a degree in Medical…

Jacob Fentress

Jacob Fentress founded Guerilla Labs. He has over a decade of experience on the web – working for small non-profits, large internet retailers, and others. Jacob graduated from…

Jacob Shatzer

Research Fellow

Jacob Shatzer is provost of Union University. He is also an associate professor of Theological Studies and dean of Instruction. He received his Ph.D. from Marquette…

Jake Stone

Jake Stone is currently a Master of Divinity student at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and serves as a junior fellow at the Andrew Fuller Center…

Jamaal Williams

Jamaal Williams is lead pastor of Sojourn Community Church Midtown in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a native of Chicago, Illinois. He received a bachelor’s degree from…

Jamar Andrews

 Jamar Andrews is a native of Jonesboro, Ark. He is married to Stephanie and they have two children. Jamar serves as the Lead Pastor of Word…

James Hart

James K.A. Smith

James Lankford

After serving four years in the U.S. House of Representatives, James was elected to the U.S. Senate to complete an unexpired term on November 4, 2014…

James Merritt

James Merritt is the Lead Pastor of Cross Pointe Church. He was born and raised in Oakwood, Georgia and surrendered his life to Christ as a…

James Mildred

James is the director of Communications and Engagement at Christian Action, Research, and Education (CARE). He is responsible for CARE’s external communications, from social media to websites, and…

James Netters

Dr. James LaVirt Netters, Sr. is the Senior Pastor of Mt. Vernon Baptist Church- Westwood, where he has served for over 56 years. He is the…

James W. Shrimpton

James W. Shrimpton is a chartered accountant, hymnwriter, and children’s author. His first book, The King and the Dragon (Crossway, 2022) traces the biblical narrative in…

James Williams

James Williams has serve as Associate Pastor of First Baptist Church Atlanta, Texas, since 2013. He and his wife, Jenny, have three children and are actively…

Jamie Aten

Jamie Aten is founder and executive director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton. Visit jamieaten.com.

Jamie Dickerson

Jamie Dickerson is the executive director of Care Net of Las Cruces.

Jamie Ivey

Jamie Ivey is a podcaster, writer, and speaker from Austin, Texas. She is the proud mama of four kids and the wife of Aaron, worship pastor…

Jamus Edwards

Jamus Edwards attended Murray State University where he earned a B.S. in Organizational Communication and a minor in Youth and Non-Profit Leadership. It was during his…

Jana Howerton

Jana is a graduate of Western Kentucky University with a Bachelors in Communication Disorders. Her husband Josh is the Lead Pastor of The Bridge Church, and they…

Jana Magruder

Janaye Platt

Janaye Platt lives with her husband, Chris, and two dogs in North Carolina. Janaye loves working with her church’s youth group. After living overseas for two…

Jane Rodgers

Jani Ortlund

Jared C. Wilson

Jared C. Wilson is the Director of Content Strategy for Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Managing Editor of For The Church(and host of the FTC Podcast), and Director of The Pastoral Training…

Jared Cornutt

Jared Cornutt is the senior pastor of Plymouth Park Baptist Church in Irving, Texas.

Jared Crabtree

Jared is the former pastor of families at Redeemer Fellowship Kansas City. He studied at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is married to Michelle, and they…

Jared H. Moore

Jared Moore has served in pastoral ministry in a Southern Baptist context for 13 years. He currently pastors New Salem Baptist Church in Hustonville, KY. He…

Jared Kennedy

Jared is the husband of Megan and father to Rachael, Lucy, and Elisabeth. After serving fifteen years on staff at local churches, Jared now works as…

Jared Musgrove

Dr. Jared Musgrove is the pastor for Leader Development at The Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas, and co-founder and executive director of communityleadership.org. He is…

Jared Poulton

Jared Poulton (M.Div.) is a graduate of Columbia International University and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Biblical Counseling and…

Jared Smith

Jared Smith is currently an intern at the ERLC’s office in Washington, D.C. He is a recent graduate of Rhodes College and will be attending Belmont…

Jared Wellman

Jared Wellman is the pastor of Tate Springs in Arlington, Texas. Jared also serves as an Executive Committee Member of the Southern Baptist Convention. Jared has…

Jared Wilson

Jarvis J. Williams

Jasmine Holmes

Jasmine L. Holmes is the author of Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope. She is also a contributing author for Identity Theft: Reclaiming the…

Jason Cook

Jason Cook is an editor for The Gospel Coalition, focusing on pastoral ministry and integrating faith and work. He is associate pastor of preaching at Fellowship Memphis.…

Jason Dee

Jason Dees

Jason Dees is the pastor of Christ Covenant in Atlanta, Ga. He and his wife Paige have three children. Jason grew up in Alabama and earned…

Jason Duesing

Research Fellow

Jason Duesing serves as the provost, senior vice president for Academic Administration, and professor of Historical Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He served for more…

Jason Goolesby

Jason Goolesby is a writer, realtor, and songwriter. He has been a resident of Lebanon, Tennessee, since 1995 when he moved there to attend college and…

Jason Gray

Jason Gray was born and raised in Tampa. Fla. He serves as the Lead Pastor of Redeemer Church in Abilene, Texas, which he helped plant in…

Jason K. Allen

Dr. Jason Allen is the fifth and youngest president of Midwestern Baptist Seminary. He has served as pastor and interim pastor of Southern Baptist churches in…

Jason Kovacs

Jason has been serving churches and non-profit organizations in the areas of pastoral care, counseling, and orphan advocacy for over 15 years. Along with his role in…

Jason Nichols

Jason Nichols is the worship pastor at Tate Springs in Arlington, Texas. He and his wife are also classical singers who have performed across the U.S.…

Jason Paredes

Jason is the Lead Pastor of Fielder Church in Arlington, Texas, a growing multi-ethnic church in the heart of the DFW area. As a third-generation Latino…

Jason Roach

Jason Roach is a pastor from London and the author of Swipe Up: A better way to do love, sex and relationships. 

Jason Thacker

Jason Thacker

Senior Fellow and Director of the Research Institute

Jason Thacker serves as senior fellow focused on pro-life and other bioethical issues including abortion, reproductive technologies, medical care, euthanasia, and end-of-life decision making. He also…

Jason Vance

Jason Vance serves as the planting pastor of Valley Life Church in Surprise, Ariz. Prior to Valley Life Church, Jason served as the Director of Missions…

Jason Wright

Jason Wright is a Product Graphic Designer for NCAA football at Nike in Portland, Ore.

Javier Peña

Javier Peña is a foreign affairs specialist with a passion for religious freedom. After receiving a B.S. in International Politics from Georgetown University, he worked in…

Jay Adkins

Jay Adkins has served as Pastor of First Baptist Church of Westwego since 2002. He holds a Master of Divinity in Biblical Languages and a Master…

Jay Kim

Jay Kim is an author and serves on staff at Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, California, overseeing teaching and leadership.

Jay Strother

Jay Strother is the Lead Campus Pastor of The Church at Station Hill, a regional campus of Brentwood (TN) Baptist Church. He’s a graduate of New…

JD Thorne

JD Thorne has served as the lead pastor of Point Mallard Parkway Baptist Church in Decatur, Ala., since 2011. He is happily married to Corrie and…

Jeanette Hagen Pifer

JEANETTE HAGEN PIFER (B.A., Biola University, M.A. Talbot School of Theology, Ph.D., University of Durham) is Professor of New Testament at Biola University, where she has…

Jeanne Mancini

Jeanne Mancini was appointed to the role of President of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund in the fall of 2012. In this capacity…

Jeanneane Maxon

With almost 10 years of executive level non-profit leadership, Jeanneane Maxon  is an attorney and nationally recognized speaker and human rights advocate.From 2012 through 2015, she served…

Jeb Bush

Jed Coppenger

Jed Coppenger serves as the lead pastor of Redemption City Church, a church plant in Franklin, Tenn., and Director of Baptist 21. He has served in…

Jedd Medefind

Jedd Medefind serves as president of the Christian Alliance for Orphans.

Jeff Dodge

Having come to Christ as a university student, Jeff Dodge’s passion is to develop leaders to establish local churches in university communities. To that end, Jeff is…

Jeff Haanen

Jeff Haanen is the Executive Director of Denver Institute for Faith & Work. He has writen for Christianity Today, The Review of Faith and International Affairs, Independent School, Comment…

Jeff Harris

Jeff Harris has been the Senior Pastor at Grace Point since 1994 and has had the privilege of seeing the community grow from the very beginning.…

Jeff Iorg

Dr. Jeff Iorg is the president of Gateway Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Jeff Long

Jeff Long serves as Senior Pastor at Parkwood Baptist Church in Gastonia, N.C. Jeff grew up outside of Hickory, N.C. He came to faith in Christ…

Jeff Medders

J.A. Medders is the lead pastor of Redeemer Church in Tomball, Texas, where he lives with his wife Natalie and their two kids. He is the…

Jeff Palmer

Jeff Palmer serves as Executive Director/CEO of Baptist Global Response (BGR). BGR is a Southern Baptist relief and development organization dedicated to seeing people around the world…

Jeff Pickering

Jeff Pickering is the director of the Initiative on Faith & Public Life, a project of the American Enterprise Institute. AEI is a leading public policy…

Jeff Walton

Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright has served as the Pastor of Midway Baptist Church in Cookeville, Tenn., since 2011. He holds an M.A.R. from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. His…

Jeffery J. Ventrella

Jeffrey B. Riley

Research Fellow

Jeffrey B. Riley is a professor of Ethics and associate dean of Graduate Studies at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is also a research fellow…

Jeffrey Bilbro

Jeffrey Bilbro (Ph.D., Baylor University) is the editor-in-chief of Front Porch Republic. He is also the author of Loving God’s Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological…

Jeffrey J. Barrows

Jeffrey J. Barrows, DO, MA (Ethics), serves as senior vice president of Bioethics and Public Policy for Christian Medical & Dental Associations. Dr. Barrows is an…

Jemar Tisby

Jen Oshman

Jen Oshman is a wife and mom to four daughters and has served as a missionary for almost two decades on three continents. She currently resides in Colorado,…

Jen Pollock Michel

Jen Pollock Michel is the award-winning author of Teach Us to Want, Keeping Place, and Surprised by Paradox. She holds a B.A. in French from Wheaton…

Jen Stewart

Jen Stewart is currently leading a team of people from City Church in Tallahassee, Fla., as they love, befriend, and help empower 70 refugee adults and…

Jen Wilkin

Jen Wilkin is an author and Bible teacher from Dallas, Texas. She has organized and led studies for women in home, church, and parachurch contexts. An…

Jena Starke

Jenn Hesse

Jenn Hesse is a writer, editor, and cofounder of a ministry that supports women walking through infertility, infant loss, and adoption. She lives with her husband…

Jenn Kintner

Office Coordinator

Jenn Kintner holds a Doctorate of Education from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Prior to her work at the ERLC she spent 10 years discipling and teaching…

Jenna Fleming

Jenna is a pastor’s wife, mother, educator, and Christ follower. She is a 5th grade ELA/SS teacher at Union Elementary in Tennessee.

Jennifer Case Cortez

Jennifer Case Cortez writes about autism, culture, and women’s issues. Her work has been featured in The Devotional Bible for Dads (Zondervan), The Life Promises Bible (Zondervan), The Mom’s Bible: God’s Wisdom…

Jennifer Lahl

Ms. Lahl is founder and president of The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network. Lahl couples her 25 years of experience as a pediatric critical care…

Jennifer Lyell

Jennifer Lyell serves as Vice President of Book Publishing & Merchandising at LifeWay Christian Resources where she leads the second largest business segment of Lifeway’s ten Ministry…

Jennifer Marshall

Jennifer Michelle Greenberg

Jennifer Nelson

Jennifer Pepito

Jennifer Spencer

Jennifer Spencer lives in Monroe, Michigan, with her husband and three children. She is a home educator and serves women and children in various ministries at…

Jenny Kisner

Jenny Marcelene

Jenny Marcelene spent six years living in conservative Muslim countries and desires to help parents and children catch a glimpse of how God is at work…

Jenny Yang

Jeremiah G. Dys

Jeremiah G. Dys, formerly of the Morgantown C&MA Church, now lives in Charleston, W.Va., with his wife and two children. He is the executive director and…

Jeremy Dys

Jeremy Dys, Esq., is Deputy General Counsel for First Liberty and host of the First Liberty Briefing. Dys earned his law degree from West Virginia University College…

Jeremy Evans

Jeremy Evans earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Texas A&M and taught at both New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Jeremy authored or…

Jeremy Linneman

Jeremy Linneman is lead pastor of Trinity Community Church, a church he planted in Columbia, Missouri. Prior to planting Trinity, he was a staff pastor of Sojourn Community Church…

Jeremy Lloyd

Jeremy Lloyd is a Ph.D. student in ethics at Midwestern Seminary in Kansas City. He and his wife, Erica, live in St. Louis with their five…

Jeremy M. Kimble

Jeremy Kimble is assistant professor of Theology and interim director of the Center for Biblical Integration at Cedarville University, in Ohio. He received his Ph.D. in…

Jeremy Pierre

Jeremy Roberts

Jeremy Roberts is married with two children and serves as the Lead Pastor of Church of the Highlands, Chattanooga, TN. He is an Adjunct Professor at Liberty University and Midwestern…

Jerry Sutton

Jerry Sutton is a professor, retired Southern Baptist pastor, and author.

Jess Rainer

Jess Rainer is the Pastor of The Church at Spring Hill. He has previously served on staff for three churches, two of which were new churches.…

Jessalyn Hutto

Jessalyn Hutto is the author of Inheritance of Tears: Trusting the Lord of Life When Death Visits the Womb, a book that seeks to share the hope of…

Jesse Masson

Jesse Masson has been counseling since 2012 and lives in Kansas City with his wife and three children. In 2020, he started Connected Counseling LLC, a…

Jesse Pawley

Jesse Pawley serves as the Worship and Discipleship Pastor at Ridgecrest Baptist Church in Greenville, Texas. He and his wife, Anna, met while in college at…

Jessica Burke

Jessica Burke is married to her high school sweetheart, and they have four children. The Burkes lived in Skopje, Macedonia as missionaries for 3 years before…

Jessica Prol

Jessica Thompson

Jessie Sandberg

Jessie Sandberg grew up in a ministry family as the fourth of six daughters of Dr. John R. Rice. She holds degrees from Wheaton College and…

Jill Nelson

Jill Nelson has taught Sunday school for more than 30 years and now writes children’s and youth curriculum for Truth78. As well as authoring God’s Gospel…

Jill Waggoner

Jill Waggoner

Strategic Project Manager & Communications Strategist

Jill Waggoner serves as the ERLC’s strategic project manager and communications strategist. She shepherds strategic projects for the organization and assists in providing direction for varied…

Jim Daly

Jim Daly is president of Focus on the Family and host of the daily broadcast, heard by more than 6.3 million listeners a week on more…

Jim Domen

Jim was raised in a God-fearing home and accepted Christ at age seven. But after he graduated from George Fox University, he was so desperate to…

Jim Hartz

Jim Richards

Jim Richards is the executive director of the Southern Baptist of Texas Convention.  He pastored for twenty-one years in Louisiana, later serving as Director of Missions in…

Jim Rodgers

Jim works for Church Building Consultants in Wheaton, IL, a firm that provides churches, Christian schools, and ministries the full spectrum of services to assess, initiate, plan, design,…

Jim Tipton

Jim Tipton is a member of Sojourn Community Church Midtown in Louisville, Kentucky, where he leads a Bible study for members aged 50 and above. A…

Jimmy McNeal

Jimmy Scroggins

Jimmy Scroggins is the Lead Pastor of Family Church, where he has served since July 2008. He and his wife, Kristin, have eight children. Under Jimmy’s leadership,…

Jin Shin

Joanna Kimbrel

Joanna Kimbrel is the Director of Theology for The Daily Grace Co., as well as a staff writer and co-host of the Daily Grace Podcast. She lives in…

Joe Ball

Joe Ball serves as the Director for Discipleship and Ministry at Union University in Jackson, Tenn. An East Tennessee native, he has received a Bachelor of…

Joe Batluck

As president of Teen Challenge International, U.S.A., Joe Batluck provides strategic leadership for eighty-three independent Teen Challenge corporations comprising two hundred and forty centers across the…

Joe Carter

Joe Carter is the author of The Life and Faith Field Guide for Parents, the editor of the NIV Lifehacks Bible, and the co-author of How to Argue Like Jesus: Learning…

Joe Henegan

Joel Dillon

Dr. Dillon received his Masters from Appalachian State University, and his Doctorate from the Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology. In his pre-doctoral training with Northwest…

Joel Gilbert

Joel Gilbert has served in Baptist churches in the D.C. area for over 25 years and currently serves as Pastor at Poolesville Baptist Church in Poolesville,…

Joel Pinckney

Joel Rainey

Joel Rainey has served as Lead Pastor at Covenant Church, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, since 2016. Prior to this he spent 11 years with the Baptist Convention…

Joey Kline

Joey Kline is the director of Christ Community Kids at Christ Community Church in Huntersville, North Carolina. He has served in Kid’s Ministry for over 18…

Joey Shaw

John Aaron Matthew

John Aaron Matthew is the Lead Pastor of Clear Lake Baptist Church in Houston, Texas. He has a passion to see churches revitalized in pursuit of…

John D. Foubert

John D. Foubert, Ph.D., is Dean of the College of Education at Union University and Principal of John D. Foubert, LLC consulting. He also serves at…

John D. Herring

John D. Herring serves as the Senior Pastor of First Baptist Prosper in Prosper, Texas. John is a native Texan and a graduate of Texas A&M…

John Dyer

John Dyer is an author and serves as the dean of Enrollment Services and Distance Education and adjunct professor in Media Arts and Worship at Dallas…

John Erickson

John Erickson has served as the lead pastor of Jubilee Community Church in Minneapolis, Minn., since planting it in 2010. He is happily married to Leslie and…

John Farish

John Farish serves as a policy intern for the ERLC in the Washington, D.C., office, where he assists staff in representing Southern Baptist policy initiatives. He…

John Garland

John Garland

John Garland served as an intern for the ERLC’s Nashville office. He is a junior studying political science and history at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee,…

John Goodrich

JOHN GOODRICH (B.A., Moody Bible Institute; M.Div., Th.M., Talbot School of Theology; Ph.D., University of Durham) is Professor of Bible at Moody Bible Institute, where he…

John Hammett

John Hammett is Senior Professor of Systematic Theology and John Leadley Dagg Chair of Systematic Theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

John Hume

John Hume has served as an Associate Pastor at Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church for over 21 years. John grew up on a farm outside Louisville, Ky.,…

John K. Goodrich

John Kimbell

John Kimbell serves as Pastor of Preaching & Discipleship at Clifton Baptist Church, Louisville, Ky. He received his MDiv (2003) and Ph.D. (2008) from The Southern…

John Lennox

John Lennox is professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Oxford. He lectures on Faith and Science for the Oxford Center for Christian Apologetics. He…

John M. Perkins

Dr. Perkins is president of the John and Vera Mae Perkins Foundation of Jackson, Mississippi. He is one of the leading evangelical voices to come out of the…

John Mark N. Reynolds

Dr. Reynolds is a Senior Fellow of Humanities at The King’s College in New York City, and a Fellow of the Center For Science and Culture at…

John Mark Yeats

John McGee

John Murchison

John serves as the director of The Austin Stone Institute (ASI), a ministry of The Austin Stone dedicated to training leaders through resources, classes, and events.…

John Onwuchekwa

John Onwucheckwu serves as the Lead Pastor of Cornerstone Church in Atlanta, Ga. John is a native of Houston, Texas, who was born into a Nigerian home…

John Partin

John Partin was a former policy intern for the ERLC.  He is currently a legislative correspondent at the United States Senate and Missions Intern at Edward…

John Piper

John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church,…

John Plum

John Plum is the founding and lead pastor of TurningPoint Church in Tulsa, Okla. He holds a Bachelors of Arts from Oral Roberts University and a…

John Powell

John Powell is the senior pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in New Caney, Texas. Previously, he served as senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Hamlin,…

John Stonestreet

John Toone

John Toone is the Associate Pastor of East Shore Baptist Church (Harrisburg, Penn.). He came to salvation, was baptized, and matured in his faith through the…

John Wilsey

Research Fellow

John Wilsey is chair of the Church History Department at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and book review editor of The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology,…

John-Michael Ritchey

 John-Michael Ritchey attended Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA where he earned a Bachelor of Arts. After receiving his degree, he taught Upper School English at North Cobb Christian school,…

Jon C. Nelson

Jon C. Nelson

Jon is the senior pastor of Soma Community Church in Missouri. He is the former and first Black president of the Missouri Baptist Convention. He is…

Jon Kelly

Jon Kelly is the lead pastor of Chicago West Bible Church. He was born in Chicago and raised in Philadelphia. Growing up, he spent most of…

Jon Ward

Jonathan Akin

Jonathan Akin is the pastor of Fairview Church in Lebanon, Tenn. He is a founding member of a young leader movement called Baptist21 and an adjunct…

Jonathan Andrews

Jonathan Andrews has been researching and writing on Middle East affairs since 2003. He is the UK representative of the International Institute for Religious Freedom and…

Jonathan Brooks

Jonathan Brooks serves as the Lead Pastor of Restoration Church Bryan. Jonathan and his wife, Stephani, moved to Bryan in the fall of 2013 to plant…

Jonathan C. Edwards

Jonathan C. Edwards (M.Div, Th.M) is the Director of Curriculum for Docent Research Group where he also serves as a lead writer. He is the author…

Jonathan Cone

Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Holmes

Jonathan Holmes is the Founder and Executive Director of Fieldstone Counseling. He previously served for fifteen years on the pastoral teams of Parkside Church and Parkside…

Jonathan Leeman

Jonathan Leeman (PhD, University of Wales) is the editorial director for 9Marks and an elder at Capitol Hill Baptist in Washington, DC. He has written for…

Jonathan Threlfall

Jonathan Threlfall serves as assistant pastor at Hanover Baptist Church in Glen Allen, VA. He and his wife Christa have four young children. Jonathan holds a…

Joni Eareckson Tada

Joni Eareckson Tada, the Founder and CEO of Joni and Friends International Disability Center, is an international advocate for people with disabilities. Mrs. Tada has served on…

Jordan Ballor

Jordan J. Ballor (Dr. theol., University of Zurich; Ph.D., Calvin Theological Seminary) is a senior research fellow and director of publishing at the Acton Institute for the…

Jordan Wootten

Jordan Wootten serves as a News and Culture Channel Editor at the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and a writer/editor at RightNow Media. He’s a board…

Jose Abella

Jose Abella serves as the Lead Pastor of Providence Road Church in Miami, Fla. Additionally, Jose serves as the 2nd Vice President of the Southern Baptist…

Joseph Rossell

Joseph Rossell serves as research analyst at IRD. He received a master's degree in International Commerce & Policy in July 2014, from George Mason University's School…

Joseph Stegall

Joseph Stegall is lead pastor of Providence Baptist Fellowship in Nolensville, Tenn. In May of 2008 he graduated from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary with the Master…

Joseph Thigpen

Joseph Thigpen serves as Discipleship Pastor of City Church in Tallahassee, Fla. He is married to Laura, and they have one daughter. Joseph has earned an…

Joseph Williams

Josh Branum

Josh Branum is the Family Pastor at Faithbridge Church in Jacksonville, Fla. He has held a passion for the gospel and missions ever since he felt…

Josh Herring

Josh Herring is a Humanities Instructor at Thales Academy, a graduate of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and Hillsdale College, and a doctoral student in Faulkner University's Great…

Josh Holler

Josh Holler is an associate pastor at First Baptist Church Duncan in Duncan, Oklahoma. He is a husband, father, and author of Redeeming Warriors: Veteran Suicide,…

Josh Howerton

Josh has been with The Bridge since 2008. He graduated from Union University with an undergrad in Biblical Theology and is currently engaged in continued theological…

Josh Hussung

Josh Hussung is pastor of youth & families at Grace Community Church in Nashville, Tennessee.

Josh Patterson

Josh Powell

Josh Powell is a third generation Southern Baptist pastor. He is a graduate of North Greenville University and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Josh has served…

Josh Smith

Josh Vaughn

Josh Vaughn is the senior pastor of Columbus Avenue Baptist Church in Waco, Texas. Before coming to Waco, Josh served as Associate Pastor for Young Marrieds…

Josh Wester

Joshua B. Wester is the lead pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Joshua B. Wester

Joshua B. Wester serves as Director of Content and Chair of Research in Christian Ethics. In this role, he provides analysis, content, and counsel on ethical issues…

Joshua Cooley

Joshua Cooley is a New York Times bestselling author and a full-time children’s minister. His latest book is a 365-day youth devotional entitled, Creator, Father, King:…

Joshua Hutchens

Josh Hutchens is the Founder and President of Gospel Life Global Missions. Previously, Josh pastored two churches in Kentucky and served for two years as a missionary in Moldova. He…

Joshua K. Smith

Joshua Martin

Joshua Martin is a recent graduate of Charleston Southern University. He is currently serving as a pastoral resident at Northwood Baptist Church in North Charleston, South…

Joy Allmond

Joy Allmond is the managing editor of Facts & Trends, and has also written for Crosswalk.com, LifeWay, WORLD magazine, and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. She lives in Nashville with her husband,…

Joy Pittman

Joy Riley

Dr. Joy Riley is executive director of The Tennessee Center for Bioethics & Culture and serves on the ethics committee of a Nashville-area hospital. Board-certified in…

JR Vassar

JR Vassar is the Lead Pastor at Church at the Cross in Grapevine, TX. JR has a passion to help the local church grow in maturity…

JT English

JT English is the Lead Pastor at Storyline Fellowship in Arvada, Colorado. Before joining Storyline, JT served as a Pastor at The Village Church, where he…

JT Riley

JT Riley is a church planter in North Texas. He and his wife Allison have three children. 

Juan Sanchez

Juan Sanchez was converted to Christ in 1983 at the age of 17. In 2005, Juan joined the staff of High Pointe Baptist Church to serve…

Judi H. Prince

Judi H. Prince is married to pastor David E. Prince, an active member of Ashland Avenue Baptist Church, and is a stay-at-home mom of eight children. Her husband,…

Juliana Wootten

Juliana Wootten is a special education teacher in the Dallas/Fort-Worth area.

Julie Lowe

Julie Lowe is a faculty member at CCEF. She holds an M.A. in counseling from Biblical Theological Seminary. She is a licensed professional counselor with over…

Julie Masson

Julie Masson previously served on staff with the ERLC. She has over fifteen years of marketing and communications experience from working for SBC entities and other…

Julie Warren

Julie Wilding

Justin Camblin

Justin Camblin is a pastoral assistant and staff nerd at Ashland Avenue Baptist Church in Lexington, Ky.

Justin Giboney

Justin Giboney is an attorney and political strategist in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also the co-founder and president of the AND Campaign.

Justin Holcomb

Justin Lonas

Justin Lonas serves as editorial and content specialist for the Chalmers Center at Covenant College. He is also an M.Div. student at Reformed Theological Seminary, Atlanta.

Justin Miller

In 2007, Justin co-founded CARE for AIDS as a junior at Vanderbilt University. CARE for AIDS exists to empower people to live a life beyond AIDS.…

Justin Mullins

Justin Mullins is the Young Families pastor at Collierville First Baptist Church in the Memphis, Tennessee area and serves as an adjunct professor of Christian Education at…

Justin Perry

Justin Perry was graciously saved by God during the summer before he was a high school senior when a student pastor shared the gospel with him.…

Justin Reimer

Justin Reimer, along with his wife, Tamara, are the co-founders of the Elisha Foundation, an organization dedicated to Christ-centered transformation in the lives of those impacted by…

Justin Sampler

Justin Sampler is pastor of First Baptist Church in Inola, Okla. He also currently serves as a chaplain in the Oklahoma Army National Guard. He received…

Justin Smith

Justin is the College Minister at Columbus Avenue Baptist Church in Waco, Texas. He lives there with his wife, Rebecca, and son. He is passionate about…

Justin Taylor

Justin Taylor is the executive vice president of book publishing and book publisher at Crossway, a not-for-profit Christian ministry that publishes the ESV Bible and gospel-centered…

K. Marshall Williams

Keith Marshall Williams, Sr. is the pastor of Nazarene Baptist Church of Philadelphia since 1984.  He received his Masters of Divinity Degree from the Palmer Theological…

K.A. Ellis

K.A. Ellis is Director of the Center for the Study of the Bible & Ethnicity (CSBE), Reformed Theological Seminary.

Kadin Christian

Kadin served on the ERLC staff in the office of the president. An Alabama native, Kadin previously served as an intern with the ERLC, and then…

Kara Bettis

Kara Bettis is a Boston-based reporter on topics of faith, politics and culture

Karen Cole

Karen Cole previously served the ERLC in the communications area, editing print pieces and proposing and producing audio and video content.

Karen Ellis

Karen Roseberry

Karen was raised in the South Bay Area of California and earned her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree in Political Science at California…

Karen Swallow Prior

Karla Siu

Karla Siu is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 18+ years of experience serving families and children recovering from trauma. Karla currently provides consultation to the North…

Kate Hox

Kate Hox has a deep desire to see her four children know and love Jesus Christ. She has always enjoyed finding gospel-centered resources, and now she…

Kate Shellnut

Kate Shellnut is an associate editor at Christianity Today.

Kate Trammell

Kate Trammell is the director of state policy at Prison Fellowship, the nation’s largest Christian nonprofit serving prisoners, former prisoners, and their families, and a leading…

Katelyn Walls Shelton

Katelyn Walls Shelton is the senior policy adviser at the Institute for Women’s Health.

Katherine Forster

Katherine Forster is a teenager who serves as lead writer and managing editor for TheRebelution.com, an online platform that reaches hundreds of thousands of Christian teens, parents,…

Katherine Leary Alsdorf

Kathryn Butler

Kathryn Butler (MD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons) is a trauma surgeon who is board certified in surgical critical care and served on the faculty…

Kathryn Jean Lopez

Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute where she directs the Center for Religion, Culture, and Civil Society, and editor-at-large of National Review.  She…

Kathryn Reid

Kathryn Reid is on staff with World Vision. 

Katie Blackburn

Katie Blackburn is a wife, mother of five, writer, and a teacher. She is saved by grace, and sustained by cold brew coffee and quiet, early mornings…

Katie Faris

Katie Faris (B.A., Grove City College) is the author of God Is Still Good: Gospel Hope and Comfort for the Unexpected Sorrows of Motherhood and a…

Katie Fruge

Katie Frugé is a stomach cancer survivor, special needs parent, amateur baker, professional theologian, and human rights advocate.  She has a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology, her…

Katie McCoy

Research Fellow

Katie McCoy serves as the director of Women’s Ministry for Baptist General Convention of Texas. She holds a Ph.D. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where she…

Katie Wussow

Kay Bennett

Kay Bennett serves as a Send Relief Missionary as executive director of Baptist Friendship House, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Kay received a B.S. degree in Counseling…

Kay Warren

Kay Warren cofounded Saddleback Church with her husband, Rick Warren, in Lake Forest, California in 1980. She is a passionate Bible teacher and tireless advocate for those…

Kayla Toney

Kayla Toney is Associate Counsel with First Liberty Institute, concentrating on religious liberty matters and First Amendment rights for clients of all faiths. Prior to joining…

Keith and Kristyn Getty

Keith Collier

Keith Collier pastors at First Baptist Groesbeck Church in in Groesbeck, Texas and was the communications associate and editor of the SBTC's Southern Baptist TEXAN newsjournal. Collier has served since 2007…

Keith Warden

Keith Warden is Senior Pastor of Picayune’s First Baptist Church in Picayune, Miss., where he has served since 2004. He holds a B.M. from Samford University,…

Kelly Needham

Kelly Needham writes a blog at kellyneedham.com. Kelly met her husband, Jimmy, at Texas A&M University in 2005. At the time, he wanted to be history…

Kelly Rosati

Kelly Rosati is the vice president of Community Outreach at Focus on the Family where she serves as the ministry spokesperson on child advocacy issues. Rosati…

Kelsa Batig

Kelsey Hency

Kelsey Hency is the founder and editor-in-chief of Fathom Magazine, a media company set out to compel people to seek out the depths of Christian faith.…

Kelvin Cochran

Kelvin J. Cochran is an author, public speaker, former Administrator of the United States Fire Administration, and former Fire Chief of Atlanta Fire Department.

Ken Connelly

Ken Connelly is legal counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates and others opposing government efforts to force…

Ken Holland

Ken Holland most recently served as Executive Pastor at University Heights Baptist Church in Huntsville, Texas. He is currently transitioning back into the marketplace as a…

Kendal Conner

After spending 10 years working in youth ministry, Kendal currently serves as a Groups Minister at Redeemer Fellowship in Kansas City, Missouri. Kendal received her B.A.…

Kenneth Bae

Kenneth Magnuson

Research Fellow

Ken Magnuson serves as the executive director of the Evangelical Theological Society. He also serves as professor of Christian ethics at Southwestern Seminary. He previously taught…

Kent Annan

Kent Annan is director of Humanitarian & Disaster Leadership at Wheaton College. Visit kentannan.com.

Kevin DeYoung

Kevin Ezell

Dr. Kevin Ezell serves as the President of the North American Mission Board, providing strategic vision, direction, and leadership as NAMB works to reach North America…

Kevin Miller

Videography and Video Editor

Kevin Miller serves as videographer and video editor for the ERLC. He has a BS in Electronic Media Communication Production from Middle Tennessee State University. In…

Kevin Shrum

Kevin Shrum is the Lead Pastor at Inglewood since 1995.  He recieved his B.A. in Theology from Missouri Baptist University and studied at The Southern Baptist Theological…

Kevin Smith

Kevin L. Smith is Executive Director of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware and Assistant Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Kevin Ueckert

Kevin Ueckert serves as the Lead Pastor of First Baptist in Georgetown, TX. He received a BBA from Texas A&M, a M.Div. at Southwestern Baptist Theological…

Kevin Webb

Kevin Webb is an Associate Pastor at Lakeview Baptist Church in Auburn, Ala. He and his family live in Opelika, Ala.

Kimber Graves

Kimber Graves is the supervisor for the Louisville office of Bethany Christian Services, where she has worked for 9 years, serving children and families throughout Indiana and…

Kimberlee Norris

Kimberly Whitten

Kimberly Whitten is a recent student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary pursing a Masters of Divinity in Women’s Studies. Kimberly has a background in ministry, serving on staff…

Knox Thames

Knox Thames currently serves as the Special Advisor for Religious Minorities in the Near East and South / Central Asia at the U.S. Department of State…

Kody Gibson

Kody Gibson (M.Div., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife and three children. He serves as Director of Enrollment and Communications…

Kody Kness

Kody Kness acted as the vice president of ChinaAid, an organization that seeks to expose human rights abuses and promote truth, justice and freedom by advocating for religious freedom and…

Kris Towers

Kris Towers serves on the Events Team for the ERLC. His responsibilities include assisting with planning events, working with sponsors and exhibitors, and overseeing conference apps.…

Krissie Inserra

Krissie is a pastor’s wife, mom, and active member in her local church and community. She has served in pregnancy resource centers and has authored numerous…

Kristen Clark

Kristen Clark is married to her high school sweetheart, Zack, and has a background in Biblical counseling, young women's ministry, teen mentoring, online blogging, and is…

Kristen Ferguson

Research Fellow

Kristen Ferguson is associate dean of Education Effectiveness, director of Online Education, and associate professor of Educational Leadership at Gateway Seminary. She received her Ed.D. and…

kristen kansiewicz

Kristen Kansiewicz

Kristen Kansiewicz is an assistant professor and Program Director of the graduate counseling program at Evangel University. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a PhD…

Kristen Lowry

Kristen Lowry serves as an IMB missionary and as the international orphan care consultant for Send Relief, where she advises Southern Baptist missionaries, churches, and international…

Kristen Waggoner

Kristen K. Waggoner serves as General Counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom. Her role includes oversight of the U.S. Legal Division and Communications, which includes over 100…

Kristen Wetherell

Kristen Wetherell is a wife, mother, and writer. She is the author of “Fight Your Fears,” co-author of the award-winning book “Hope When it Hurts,” editor…

Kristie Anyabwile

Kristie Anyabwile is a wife, mother, and homemaker who loves leading Bible studies, discipling women, cooking, hospitality, and reading. She lives in Washington DC with her husband…

Kristin Schmucker

Kristin Schmucker is the founder and CEO of The Daily Grace Co,

Kyle Bryant

Mr. Kyle Bryant serves as the Campus Director for TCS Heights. Although raised in the public school system, Kyle is passionate about seeing a revival of…

Lainey Greer

Lainey Greer, Ph.D., is a speaker and author whose passion revolves around theology and the physical body. Years of theological education, personal training, and church ministry…

Lane Wakefield

Lane Wakefield

Lane Wakefield is the director of the Center for Sales Strategy in Sports and Entertainment (S3E) and clinical assistant professor of Marketing at the Hankamer School…

Larry Riley

Larry Riley has served as the senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Clarksville, Tenn., since October, 2012. Larry brings over 25 years of experience in full-time…

Latifah Phillips

Latifah Phillips is an artist, writer, producer and engineer. She is a member of the band Page CXVI.

Laura Campbell

Laura Campbell is a master’s student at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a member of Emmaus Church in Kansas City, Missouri, along with her husband, Collin.…

Laura DeClercq

Laura Messick

Laura Messick is the executive director of Portico, a pregnancy resource center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Laura Thigpen

Laura Thigpen is a pastor’s wife, adoptive mom, freelance writer, and an administrative assistant at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. She and her husband, Joseph, serve Imago Dei…

Laurel Shaler

Dr. Laurel Shaler is a licensed social worker and professional counselor. She holds master's degrees in Social Work and Theology, and a Ph.D. in Counselor Education…

Laurelen Muller

Laurelen Müller serves as the executive director of Speak for the Unborn. She helps to implement the big picture vision and mission of the ministry in…

Lauren Ashford

Lauren Ashford has three children and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Lauren Brown

Lauren Brown

Lauren Brown serves as Stand for Life Logistics and Operations Administrator. Lauren is originally from Mississippi and graduated from Delta State University. She and her husband…

Lauren Chandler

God has always spoken to me through birds and creatures of flight—there’s something worshipful about the way they move, something I admire and am jealous of,…

Lauren Green McAfee

Lauren Green McAfee is a speaker, writer, connector and coffee enthusiast with a heart to engage others in the Bible. While pursuing her graduate degrees in…

Lauren L. Moy

Lauren L Moy is a Certified Career Coach with over 20 years of human resources management and coaching experience in the private, public and non-profit sectors (financial…

Lauren McAfee

Research Fellow

Lauren McAfee serves as corporate ambassador for Hobby Lobby, the country’s largest arts and crafts retailer. She also works on special projects for Museum of the…

Lauren Rae Konkol

Lauren Rae Konkol serves as the Team Coordinator. She assists the Washington, D.C. office with scheduling, event planning, office coordination, and project management. Before joining the…

Laurie Chapman

Laurie is a Jesus-loving discipler, mother to seven wonderful people and three grandsons, who currently lives in Wilmington, Delaware. She enjoys almost anything as long as…

Leeann Poarch

Leeann Poarch

Leeann Poarch serves as an ERLC intern in the Nashville office. She is a senior at the University of Oklahoma pursuing degrees in economics and history,…

Leeann Stiles

Leeann Stiles is an educational consultant in Dubai, UAE. She holds a B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of Kentucky. She grew up in Louisville, KY.…

Leigh Ann Marshall

Leigh Ann Marshall is a mother of two adult young ladies and grandmother of one granddaughter. Leigh Ann lives in Lebanon, Tennessee. She is an accomplished…

Leigh Gust

Leigh Gust is a graduate of Grove City College, a veteran, an Army spouse, and home-educates her five children, ages 2-13.  She spends her free time…

Lemanuel Williams

Lemanuel Williams is the director of discipleship at Redemption City Church in Franklin, Tennessee. He is a Hunt Scholar completing his Master of Divinity at Southeastern…

Leo Endel

Leo Endel is the executive director of the Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention.

Lesley Hildreth

Lesley Hildreth is the Women’s Discipleship Director for The Summit Church in Durham, North Carolina.

Leslie Peacock Caldwell

Leslie Peacock Caldwell is the managing editor at the IMB.

Leslie Vernick

Lieryn Barnett

Lieryn Barnett is a covenant member of Two Cities Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is passionate about mental illness and biblical literacy. Lieryn has contributed…

Ligon Duncan

Ligon Duncan is the Chancellor/CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary and the John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology. Ligon was born in Greenville, SC,…

Lilly Park

Lilly Park serves as Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Since 2011, she has taught undergraduate and graduate students in the…

Lilly Park

Research Fellow

Lilly Park serves as the associate professor of Biblical Counseling at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. She has contributed to Trained in the…

Linda Lowry

Lindy Lowry is a writer and editor on staff with Open Doors USA.

Lindsay McDonald

Lindsay Nicolet

Lindsay Nicolet

Editorial Director

Lindsay Nicolet serves as the editorial director for the ERLC. She oversees the day-to-day management of all content and resources from the Nashville office. Lindsay completed…

Lindsay Nicolet

Lindsay Swartz

Lindsey Carlson

Lindsey Carlson is a church planter’s wife, the mother of five children, and has served alongside her husband in pastoral ministry for 16 years. She enjoys…

Lindsey Holcomb

Lindsey A. Holcomb, MPH, works at Samaritan Village, a safe home and therapeutic program for adult survivors of sex trafficking. She is a former case manager…

Lindsey Teat

Lindsey is an Alabama native, pastor's wife and mom of four awesome kiddos. She loves encouraging others in their walk with Christ and is passionate about serving those…

Lisa Hamel

Lisa Misner

Lisa Misner is the social media/public policy manager for the communications team of the Illinois Baptist State Association. She is also a contributing editor for the…

Lisa Spence

Lisa lives in Auburn, Alabama, where she teaches a ladies’ Bible study at her church and volunteers as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for children in…

Liz Wann

Liz Wann lives in Philadelphia with her husband and three children. She is the author of a book for weary moms, The End of Me: Finding Resurrection…

Lizette Beard

Lizette Beard coordinates research projects for LifeWay Research on topics such as multi-site churches, mega church growth, church planting, small groups, discipleship, outreach to first generation…

Lizzy Taylor

Project Manager and Administrative Assistant

Lizzy Taylor serves as the project manager and administrative assistant, helping to manage the ERLC’s online presence and assisting with projects and initiatives. Lizzy previously served…

Lore Ferguson Wilbert

Lore Ferguson Wilbert is a writer, thinker, and learner. She blogs at sayable.net. She and her husband Nathan live in Flower Mound, Texas.

Lori Bova

Lori Bova is the founder and administrator of Veritas Classical Christian Academy in Hobbs, New Mexico. More importantly, she is a follower Jesus Christ, wife, mother,…

Louise Reed

Lourdes Anita Branch

Lourdes Anita Branch is an educator and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. As a lover and follower of Jesus, she seeks to see him reflected…

Luke Mintz

Luke I. Mintz is a policy intern in the ERLC’s Washington, D.C., office. Originally from Tennessee, he is currently pursuing his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science…

Luke Stamps

Research Fellow

Lucas Stamps serves as professor of Christian Theology at Anderson University and the Clamp Divinity School. Stamps is a graduate of Auburn University (B.S. in history)…

Luma Sims

Luma Simms is an associate fellow of the Philos Project, whose mission is to promote positive Christian engagement in the Middle East. Her work has appeared in…

Lyman Stone

Lyman Stone is the Chief Information Office of Demographic Intelligence, a population consulting firm. He is also a research fellow at the Institute for Family Studies,…

Lynette Ezell

Lynnette Ezell

Maddie Steele

Maddie Steele graduated with a degree in Journalism from Union University and works in Marketing and PR in Jackson, Tennessee. She is also a wedding and…

Maegan Clark

Maegan Clark is from Fort Smith, Arkansas, lives in Franklin, Tennessee, but is an avid Oklahoma Sooner fan. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Educational…

Maina Mwaura

Maina Mwaura resides in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife, Tiffany, and daughter, Zyan. He is a graduate of Liberty University and New Orleans Theological Seminary and has…

Malcolm Yarnell

Research Fellow

Malcolm B. Yarnell III is research professor of Systematic Theology in Fort Worth, Texas, where he enjoys exploring theology with his students. He is the author…

Malia Sandberg

Malia Sandberg is an elementary school teacher and lives with her husband and three children in South Muncie, Indiana. They are committed to loving Jesus, their…

Marco Rubio

Marco Rubio is an American politician and attorney, and a United States Senator of Florida. Rubio previously served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. Rubioa native of…

Marcus Allen

Marcus Allen serves as lead pastor of Faith Family Baptist Church in Kingwood, Texas. He was born and raised in Jacksonville, Fla. He married his high…

Margaret Kostenberger

Marie Delph

Marie Delph

Marie Delph serves both the Marketing and Communications teams at the ERLC. Her primary duties are web and project management, and editing. Marie came to the ERLC in 2010, having…

Mario Díaz

Mario Díaz, Esq., serves as Concerned Women for America’s (CWA) Legal Counsel and leads CWA’s Legal Studies Department. Mr. Diaz is a Constitutional Law scholar who…

Marissa Postell

Marissa Postell serves as the managing editor of LifewayResearch.com. As a writer, she hopes to tell compelling narratives to equip the church to live on mission…

Mark Carrington

Mark Carrington has been serving as Lead Pastor of Wornall Road Baptist Church in Kansas City, Mo., since 2017. Mark has degrees from N.C. State University (BA)…

Mark Coppenger

In addition to teaching at Southern Seminary, Coppenger is managing editor of the online Kairos Journal. Before attending seminary, he taught at Wheaton and Vanderbilt, where…

Mark Dance

Mark Dance

Mark Dance (D.Min.) leads Pastoral Wellness for Guidestone as well as the Care4Pastors Network. Prior to that he served as a lead pastor for 30 years…

Mark Dever

Mark serves as the senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC. A Duke graduate, Dr. Dever holds a M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary,…

Mark Hearn

Mark Hearn is the senior pastor of First Baptist Duluth, Georgia. Previously, he was the Senior Pastor of Northside Baptist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has been…

Mark Kelly

Mark Kelly is a career Southern Baptist journalist and host of a podcast at godsrevolution.org. He has written several brief books, including Journey into Justice and Proof…

Mark Liederbach

Mark Liederbach

Research Fellow

Mark Liederbach is the senior professor of Ethics, Theology, and Culture, Dean of Students, & vice president for Student Services at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He…

Mark Mellinger

Mark Mellinger is the marketing and development director for the National Embryo Donation Center, a life-affirming Christian non-profit in Knoxville, Tennessee. He also continues a long…

Mark Owens

Mark Owens

Mark Satterfield

Mark Satterfield serves as the senior pastor of The Glade Church in Mount Juliet, Tenn. He also serves as a church consultant with LifeWay Leadership. Mark…

Mark Smith

Mark Smith serves as a pastor at The Hallows Church in Seattle, Washington. Before serving as a pastor, Smith taught children’s dramatic arts for over 10…

Mark Tooley

Mark Tooley is the president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy and editor of IRD's foreign policy and national security journal, Providence. Prior to joining the IRD…

Marshal Ausberry

Marshal Ausberry is married to the former Robyn Duke, they have three adult children and two grandchildren. Marshal serves as the Sr. Pastor of Antioch Baptist Church,…

Marshall Griffin

Martin Cothran

Martin Cothran, the author of Memoria Press’ Traditional Logic, Material Logic and Classical Rhetoric programs, is an instructor of Latin, Logic, Rhetoric, and Classical Studies at…

Marty Hogue

Marty Hogue is pastor of First Baptist Church of Ravenel, South Carolina.

Marty Machowski

Marty Machowski is a Family Life pastor at Covenant Fellowship Church in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, where he has served on the pastoral staff for over 30…

Mary

Mary is a volunteer pregnancy counselor at Lifeline Children’s Services.

Mary A. Chapman

Mary Bales

Mary Bales has been married to Connor for 20 years. They have five children: Kathryn, 16; Coleman, 14; Libby, 12; Hannah, 8; Campbell, 7. Two of…

Mary Beth Chapman

Mary Beth Chapman is a New York Times’ best-selling author, speaker, and the wife of GRAMMY® and Dove Award-winning recording artist, Steven Curtis Chapman. She is…

Mary C. Wiley

Mary Demuth

Mary Holloman

Mary Holloman is the Communications Coordinator at The Pregnancy Network in North Carolina. She has written for many online publications, including Lifeway Research, the Christian Broadcasting…

Mary Mohler

Mary Mohler is the founder and director of the Seminary Wives Institute, an academic program for student wives at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Boyce College…

Mary Wiley

Mary Wiley is the author of Everyday Theology, an eight-week Bible study exploring essential doctrines and why they matter in our everyday lives. She holds an…

Mary Wurster

Mary Wurster grew up in Sylvania, Ohio, and currently attends Taylor University in Upland, Indiana. She will graduate with a degree in Political Science, Philosophy, and…

Mason Ballard

Mat Alexander

Mat Alexander is the pastor of First Baptist Church in Gadsden, AL. He’s a graduate of the University of Mobile and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.…

Matt Arbo

Matt Beasley

Matt Beasley serves as Pastor of Ridgecrest Baptist Church in Greenville, Texas. Prior to coming to Ridgecrest in 2012 he and his wife served with the…

Matt Boswell

Matt Boswell is the pastor of The Trails Church. Matt is a Native Texan who grew up the son of a Baptist pastor, and also grew…

Matt Bowman

Matt Capps

Matt Capps came to Fairview as the Senior Pastor in June of 2015. Matt earned his M.Div. with Biblical Languages at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and…

Matt Carter

Matt Chandler

Matt Chandler serves as Lead Pastor of Teaching at The Village Church in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. He came to The Village in December 2002 and…

Matt Chewning

Matt is the Lead Pastor of Netcast Church. He grew up in New Jersey and became a Christian at a college just outside Boston, Mass. After…

Matt Crawford

Matt Crawford serves on the staff of City Church Tallahassee as the pastor for the church’s East Campus, which is launching Spring 2018. Matt also works…

Matt Henslee

Matt Henslee is the pastor of Mayhill Baptist Church in Mayhill, New Mexico. In addition to his ministry at MBC, Matt co-hosts Not Another Baptist and…

Matt Kendrick

Matt Kendrick is the Next Generation Pastor of Biltmore Church in Asheville, N.C. He and his wife Courtney have two children. Matt received his undergraduate degree at…

Matt Lewis

Matt McCauley

Matt McCullough

Matt McCullough

Matt McCullough serves as a pastor of Edgefield Church. Before joining with Edgefield, he helped to plant Trinity Church near Vanderbilt University and served as pastor…

Matt Moore

Matt has spent the last seven years in New Orleans, Louisiana serving a church plant that he helped start in 2012. He and his wife, Talitha,…

Matt Peek

Matt Peek began serving as Pastor at First Baptist Church Pelham in June 2014. He is married to Leigh Anna, and they have four children. Matt…

Matt Sharp

Matt Sharp serves as senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he is the director of the Center for Public Policy. In this role, he leads…

Matt Sliger

Matt Sliger

Matt Sliger serves as Co–Pastor at South Woods Baptist Church in Memphis, Tenn. He earned a PhD in Applied Theology from Southeastern Seminary and currently serves…

Matt Surber

Matt Surber is the lead pastor at Mission City Church. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Biblical Studies and Communications from East Texas Baptist University. He then…

Matthew Arbo

Matthew Arbo has a Ph.D. in ethics from the University of Edinburgh, currently serves as a research fellow in Christian Ethics at the ERLC, and has…

Matthew Bennett

Matthew Bennett is assistant professor of missions and theology at Cedarville University. He joined the faculty at Cedarville in 2017 after serving as a missionary in…

Matthew Blankenship

Research Assistant

Matthew Blankenship serves as a research assistant at the ERLC, assisting in the drafting and review of Research Team assets and resources. He previously worked as…

Matthew Clough

Matthew Clough serves as the Lead Pastor at Fellowship West, a multi-campus replant church located in the Kansas City metro area. Matthew is also an active…

Matthew D. Hamilton

Matthew D. Hamilton earned his B.A. in Pastoral Ministry from the Moody Bible Institute and more recently completed his M.A. in Theological Studies from Princeton Theological…

Matthew Hall

Matthew Hawkins

Matthew Hawkins is the former Policy Director for the ERLC. He holds a Master of Arts in Ethics and Public Affairs from George Mason University. He and…

Matthew Herriman

Matthew Herriman is Executive Assistant to the President. He coordinates and manages all the logistics related to the president’s calendar and travel. Matthew is a graduate of…

Matthew J. Franck

Matthew J. Franck is the Director of the William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution.  He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at…

Matthew J. Hall

Matthew J. Hall was appointed as provost and senior vice president for academic administration of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in April 2019. Previously, Hall served…

Matthew J. Tuininga

Matthew J. Tuininga is the assistant professor of moral theology at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of Calvin’s Political Theology and the…

Matthew Jackson

Matthew Jackson is a current intern at the Nashville office. Being from Belfast, Northern Ireland; he will be completing his final year this coming academic year…

Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Loftus

Matthew is a family physician who works more or less full-time as a family doctor at Bet Eman (His House of Hope) Hospital in Yei, South…

Matt McCullough

Matthew McCullough

Matt McCullough serves as a pastor of Edgefield Church. Before joining with Edgefield, he helped to plant Trinity Church near Vanderbilt University and served as pastor…

Matthew Mihelic

Matthew Mihelic is an International Policy Resident with the ERLC. He has served as a missionary to sub-Saharan Africa and is currently a student at the Southern…

Matthew Richardson

Matthew Richardson served as student pastor at Emmanuel International Church in Paris, France. He is an avid reader of theology. Matthew is currently studying to get…

Matthew Soerens

Matthew Soerens serves as the U.S. Director of Church Mobilization for World Relief and the National Coordinator for the Evangelical Immigration Table, a coalition of evangelical…

Matthew T. Hawkins

Matthew T. Hawkins is a former policy director of the  ERLC. He is presently pursuing a Ph.D. in public theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and…

Matthew T. Martens

Research Fellow

Matthew T. Martens (J.D., University of North Carolina School of Law; M.A.B.S., Dallas Theological Seminary) is an author, trial lawyer, a former federal prosecutor, and a…

Matthew Y. Emerson

Matthew Y. Emerson is a Dickinson Associate Professor of Religion at Oklahoma Baptist University and an ERLC Research Fellow. 

Maxie Dunnam

Dr. Maxie Dunnam became the fifth president of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, in 1994, and he served as chancellor of the seminary for 4…

Meagan Mayo

Meagan Mayo is the Senior Project Manager for the Operations Team. Meagan helps lead the operations team, manages operations projects day to day, and takes the…

Megan Dickerson

Megan Dickerson

Megan Dickerson works for the Center for Faith and Culture at SEBTS where she is also a PhD student. She and her husband Drew have served…

Megan Lively

Megan Shelburne

Megan Shelburne

Megan serves on the Operations and Events team and provides administrative support to the Vice President of Operations. She also manages the Stand for Life social…

Melissa Affolter

Melissa Affolter is a counselor with Fieldstone Counseling, and research editor with Truth For Life Ministries. She is passionate about leading women’s discipleship at her home…

Melissa Kruger

Melissa Kruger is the author of Wherever You Go, I Want You to Know as well as several books for adults. She is the director of…

Melvin C. Smith

Reverend Doctor Melvin Charles Smith has been the Senior Pastor of Mount Moriah-East Baptist Church since 1967. He is a nationally and internationally recognized evangelist. He…

Meredith Flynn

Meredith Flynn is a writer in Springfield, Ill.

Meredith Leatherwood

Meredith is the wife of Brent Leatherwood who is the ERLC president.

Micah Carter

Micah is the Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church, Ripley, MS. Micah was formerly part of the B&H Publishing Group of LifeWay. He enjoys writing about topics…

Micah Fries

Micah Gaston

Micah serves as the campus pastor at the Midtown Campus of 3Circle Church on the Gulf Coast of Alabama. He is the president of Shrink the…

Micah Watson

Professor Watson is a native of the great golden state of California where he completed his undergraduate degree at U.C. Davis. He earned his M.A. degree…

Michael Cherenkov

Michael Cooper

Michael Cooper was captured by Jesus at the age of 17. He and his wife Kailie have been married since June 2012, and they are the proud…

Michael Gerson

Michael Gerson is a conservative op-ed columnist for the Washington Post, a Policy Fellow with the ONE Campaign, a visiting fellow with the Center for Public Justice,…

Michael Guyer

Michael Hendrix

Michael Hendrix is director of state and local policy at the Manhattan Institute. Previously, he served as senior director for research and emerging issues at the U.S. Chamber…

Michael Herrington

Michael Herrington is married to Dana, and they are raising three girls in the mountains of North Carolina, where he serves as pastor at Christ Community Church…

Michael J. DeBoer

Michael J. DeBoer is an Associate Professor of Law at Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law. He holds degrees from Liberty University, Southeastern Baptist…

Michael J. Kruger

Michael J. Kruger is the president and professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, and a leading scholar…

Michael Kelley

Michael Kelley is the Lifeway Director of Discipleship.

Michael McAfee

Michael McAfee is the President and Co-Founder of Inspire Experiences. Michael also serves part-time as the Teaching Pastor at Council Road Baptist Church, where he met his…

Michael Natelli

Michael Natelli is a senior at the University of Missouri, pursuing his B.A. in Geography. He is also an intern at Trinity Community Church in Columbia,…

Michael Sobolik

Michael Sobolik is a policy analyst and former congressional staffer working in Washington, D.C., where he lives with his wife Chelsea.

Michael T. Hamilton

Michael Hamilton writes and edits for Good Comma Editing, LLC. Hamilton writes and edits at the intersection of liberty, language, and learning. His efforts to reform…

Michael Wear

Michael Wood

Michael Wood has served as the Lead Pastor of First West in West Monroe, La., since 2014. He is a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary…

Michaela Holsteen

Ethan and Michaela Holsteen have been married since 2016. They met in Louisville, Kentucky, when they were both studying Biblical Counseling at Boyce College. Ethan currently…

Michelle Bates

Michelle lives in Humansville, Missouri, with her husband and children. They are owners of a small inn and a tool rental company. Michelle and her family…

Michelle Reyes

Michelle Ami Reyes, Ph.D., is the co-author of The Race-Wise Family, vice president of Asian American Christian Collaborative and scholar in residence at Hope Community Church…

Miguel Echevarria

Miguel Echevarria is the Assistant Professor of New Testament and Greek Director of Hispanic Leadership Development at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. 

Mika Edmondson

Mika Edmondson is the pastor of New City Fellowship OPC, a Presbyterian church in Southeast Grand Rapids. He earned a Ph.D. in systematic theology from Calvin Seminary and…

Mikayla Simpson

Mike Cosper

Mike Glenn

Mike Glenn serves as Lead Pastor of Brentwood Baptist Church in Brentwood, Tenn., where he has served since 1991. Mike graduated from Samford University in Birmingham…

Mike Harder

Mike Harder serves as Lead Pastor at Green Hills Church in Nashville, Tenn. Mike was born and raised as a missionary kid in Bogota, Colombia. After…

Mike Keahbone

Mike currently serves as the Lead Pastor at Cherokee Hills Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, Okla. Mike grew up in the small town of Elgin, Okla.…

Mike Law Jr.

Prior to serving as the Senior Pastor of Arlington Baptist Church, Mike Law Jr. served as the planting pastor of a local church in Northern Virginia,…

Mike Mccarty

As a former police officer and domestic violence/sexual assault detective with the Metro Nashville Police Department, Mike has spent 25 years in violence prevention programs. He…

Mike McGarry

Mike McGarry is the youth pastor at South Shore Baptist Church and author of Lead Them to Jesus: A Handbook for Youth Workers (New Growth Press, 2021); A Biblical Theology of…

Mike Pence

Mike Pence

Mike Pence served as the 48th Vice President of the United States and the 50th Governor of the State of Indiana.

Mike Wittmer

Michael Wittmer is Professor of Systematic Theology at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary and author of Becoming Worldly Saints: Can You Serve Jesus and Still Enjoy Your Life?.

Miles Mullin

Vice President and Chief of Staff, Director of Research

Miles S. Mullin II, Ph.D., serves as vice president and chief of staff for the ERLC, having previously served at the Missouri Baptist Convention, Hannibal-LaGrange University,…

Mindy Belz

Missie Branch

Missie Branch is the Vice President for Community Engagement at Stand for Life and former Asst. Dean of Students to Women and the Director of Graduate…

Mollie Hemingway

Mollie Ziegler Hemingway is a senior editor at The Federalist. A longtime journalist, her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Los…

Montse Alvarado

Montse Alvarado is the VP & Executive Director of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

Muche Ukegbu

Though born and raised in Houston, Texas, for most of his adult life, Muche Ukegbu called Atlanta home as he served alongside his closest friends to help…

Mykhailo Cherenkov

Mykhailo Cherenkov is the vice president for strategy and education at the Association for Spiritual Renewal, Mission Eurasia’s (formerly Russian Ministries) national affiliate in Ukraine, as…

Myriah Snyder

Myriah Snyder is a senior writer/editor for the IMB.

Naghmeh Abedini

Naghmeh Abedini is a U.S. Citizen who was born in Tehran, Iran and moved to the United States with her family when she was nine. Naghmeh’s…

Nancy Guthrie

Naomi Cramer Overton

Naomi Overton

Naomi Overton serves as USA Child Advocacy Director for Compassion International. She is also the former CEO of MOPs International. 

Natalie Sarrett

Natalie Sarrett writes for Send Relief.

Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Natasha Sistrunk Robinson is an international speaker, leadership consultant, diversity and mentoring coach with nearly 20 years of leadership experience in the military, federal government, church,…

Nate Elgin

Nate Elgin is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary, where he earned his Master’s Degree in Theology. He is married to Jennifer, and they have a…

Nathan Berkeley

Nathan Berkeley entered on duty as the outreach director in the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs, Executive Office for Immigration Review, in May 2015. Mr.…

Nathan Carter

Nathan Carter grew up in rural Indiana, but since 2004 he has been a pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church in the city of Chicago. He went…

Nathan Finn

Nathan Finn

Senior Fellow

Nathan A. Finn serves as senior fellow focused on issues of religious liberty. He is an professor of faith and culture at North Greenville University, where…

Nathan Knight

Nathan Knight is a pastor in Washington, D. C. He and his wife are parents to two boys. He is a graduate of Southeastern Theological Seminary. 

Nathan Lino

Nathan Lino founded Northeast Houston Baptist Church in 2002 and has served as the Senior Pastor since that time. He earned degrees from Texas A&M University…

Nathan Lorick

Dr. Nathan Lorick is the Director of Evangelism for the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention. He works directly with churches across Texas to engage their communities…

Nathan Millican

Nathan Millican serves as the Lead Pastor at Foothills Baptist Church in Phoenix, Ariz. He is married to Lauren and they have four kids. Nathan earned…

Nathaniel Bishop Jr.

Nathaniel Bishop Jr. serves as Lead Pastor of Forest Baptist Church, a historic African-American church in the Newburg/Petersburg area of Louisville, Ky. He is a graduate of…

Nathaniel T. Brooks

Nathaniel T. Brooks serves as the Senior Pastor of The Greater St. John Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. Nathaniel is a graduate of The Samuel DeWitt…

Nathaniel Williams

Nathaniel Williams (M.Div, Southeastern Seminary) is the Editor of IntersectProject.org at Southeastern Seminary and the pastor of Cedar Rock First Baptist Church. His work has appeared…

Neal Hardin

Neal Hardin grew up in Murrieta, CA before getting his BS in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Utah in 2012. Following that, he worked as…

Nic Seaborn

Nic Seaborn received his bachelor’s degree in Christian Studies from Union University in Jackson, Tenn. He then earned his M.Div. degree from Beeson Divinity School. He…

Nicholas Maricle

Nicholas is the pastor of Hessmer Baptist Church in Hessmer, Louisiana. He is also a Ph.D. student studying Theology at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Nicholas…

Nicholas Raineri

Nicholas Raineri is a Chicago-land native who, after spending nine years as a missionary kid in Honduras, Germany, Greece, and France, has spent two years working in politics…

Nick Esch

Nick Esch serves as the Lead Pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Terrell, Texas. Nick has been a part of Cornerstone since 2008, serving in many…

Nick Nye

Nick Nye is the Lead Pastor for Apostles Church in New York City’s Union Square. Nick is married to Brittany and has four kids.

Nick Tidwell

Nick Tidwell serves as the executive pastor of First Baptist Church of Gallatin, Tennessee, an attorney, and president of Compassionate Counsel, a Christian legal aid ministry. …

Nicole Lino

Nicole Lino has been married for 18 years and is mother to four children. In 2002, she and her husband, Nathan, planted Northeast Houston Baptist Church…

Nikki Daniel

Nikki Daniel is a pastor’s wife from Augusta, Georgia. She has two sons and a daughter. She enjoys homeschooling, writing, and playing intense games of Settlers of Catan.…

Noah Breyman

Noah Oldham

Noah Oldham is the lead and planting pastor of August Gate Church, a multi-gathering church-planting church in the city and suburbs of St. Louis, Mo. Noah…

Noe Garcia

Noe Garcia is the Senior Pastor at North Phoenix Baptist Church in Phoenix, Az. He and his wife have four children. He holds a Doctorate of…

Noel Lozano

Noel Lozano serves as Senior Pastor at Turning Point  in Miami, Fla. Noel came to the Lord when he was nine years old and was called…

O.S. Hawkins

O.S. Hawkins

O. S. Hawkins (PhD, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the former pastor of the historic First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. Since 1997 he has served…

Obbie Todd

Obbie Tyler Todd is pastor of the Church at Haynes Creek in Oxford, Georgia, and a Ph.D. candidate at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He also…

Olivia Enos

Owen Strachan

Owen Strachan is Associate Professor of Christian Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. He is also Senior Fellow for the Council of…

P.J. Tibayan

P. J. Tibayan is a member and pastor-theologian of Bethany Baptist Church in Bellflower, California, shepherding the church to share their lives so neighbors know God…

Paige Cunningham

Paige Comstock Cunningham, JD, PhD is the executive director of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity. She is a Trustee of Taylor University. Cunningham is…

Paige Patterson

As the eighth president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Paige Patterson carries more than four decades of experience in educating pastors and missionaries. After almost 18…

Palmer Williams

Palmer Williams

General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor

Palmer specializes in legal and policy analysis related to international human rights, sanctity of life, and government affairs. As a licensed attorney specializing in international law,…

Pat Aldridge

Pat is husband to Cheryl and father to Kate and Tom. He is the Community Life Pastor at Redeemer Fellowship in St. Charles, Illinois. He has…

Pat Hood

Pat is the Senior Pastor of LifePointe Church in Smyrna, TN. LifePointe has five campuses including ones in Bangkok, Thailand as well as Brussels, Belgium. Pat…

Patricia de Saladin

Patricia Saladin has a passion to teach the Word of God to women. She lives in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and serves as women’s ministry leader in…

Patrick McGinty

Patrick McGinty serves as the Coordinator of Strategic Partnerships. Prior to serving in this capacity he served as Office Coordinator/Executive Assistant in the Nashville Office. Patrick…

Patrick Schreiner

Patrick Schreiner is associate professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Patrick Weikle

Patrick currently serves as the lead youth pastor for United City Church. Patrick received his bachelor’s in Youth Ministry and Preaching with a minor in Biblical…

Paul Akin

Paul Akin, son of Danny Akin, currently serves as the Senior Aide to the President of the International Mission Board and is a PhD Candidate in…

Paul Chitwood

Paul Chitwood is the Executive Director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. The Kentucky Baptist Convention is a cooperative missions and ministry organization made up of nearly 2,400 autonomous Baptist…

Paul D. Miller

Research Fellow

Paul D. Miller is a professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Georgetown University and a research fellow with the ERLC. He is also a…

Paul David Tripp

Dr. Paul David Tripp is a pastor, event speaker, and a best-selling and award-winning author. With more than 30 books and video series on Christian living,…

Paul Gotthardt

Paul is the Lead Pastor of Life Baptist Church in Las Vegas, NV. He grew up in Savannah, Georgia where he met his wife, Brea, in…

Paul Jimenez

Paul Jimenez serves as Pastor at Taylor’s First Baptist Church in Taylors, S.C. Paul was born in Greenville, S.C., and is married to the former Cheri…

Paul Martin

Paul Martin is the senior pastor of Grace Fellowship Church in Toronto, Ontario. After leading the plant in 2000, he was involved in helping three other…

Paul Wilkinson

Paul was ordained at Millbrook Baptist Church in Aiken, SC on May 31, 2015. He graduated from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY with a…

Peggy Osborne

Peggy Osborne has been an Educator for 30+ years serving as a teacher and an administrator in the public school system. She is currently an independent…

Peter Bargas

Peter Bargas was born and raised in Southern California. He received his B.A. from The Master’s University and J.D. and M.L.S from Trinity Law School. Peter runs…

Peter Leithart

Peter J. Leithart is an American author, minister, theologian and president of Theopolis Institute for Biblical, Liturgical, & Cultural Studies in Birmingham, Alabama. Leithart blogs at…

Peter Sensenig

Peter Sensenig is a graduate of Palmer Theological Seminary and served as associate pastor at Oxford Circle Mennonite Church in Philadelphia.

Peyton Hill

Peyton Hill is the Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church in Prattville, Ala. He is passionate about preaching Christ from the entire Bible and motivating believers…

Phil Vischer

Philip Pinckney

Philip Pinckney is the Lead Pastor or Radiant Church in North Charleston, S.C. Philip received his Bachelor’s Degree from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina…

Phillip Bethancourt

Phillip Bethancourt is Lead Pastor at Central Church in Bryan-College Station, Texas. After serving as the Executive Vice President at the ERLC for seven years, Bethancourt…

Phoebe Cates

Phoebe Cates has interned with the ERLC Nashville office. She is from the Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati Metro area and is a senior at Northern Kentucky University. She…

Policy Staff

Prison Fellowship

Quina Aragon

Quina Aragon is an assistant editor and administrative assistant for women’s initiatives for The Gospel Coalition. She’s also an author and spoken-word artist residing in Tampa,…

R. Albert Mohler

Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr. serves as president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary – the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of…

R. Albert Mohler, Jr.

R. Lucas Stamps

R. Lucas Stamps is a Faculty Lead and Associate Professor of Christian Studies at California Baptist University. His areas of focus include Christology, Trinity, historical theology, and Baptist theology. 

Rachael Denhollander

Rachael Denhollander is an attorney, advocate, and educator who became known internationally as the first woman to file a police report and speak publicly against USA…

Rachel Hickle

Rachel Hickle serves as the funding and accreditation coordinator for Prison Programs at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. She holds a B.S. in Biology from Union University…

Rachel Lonas

Rachel Lonas is a teacher in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She and her husband Justin have four daughters. She has a B.S. in English: Secondary Licensure from Bryan…

Rachel Metzger

Rachel White

Rachel White is a licensed counselor, an advocate for human trafficking survivors, and founder of Her Song Jacksonville. Rachel has led her team to address a great…

Rachel Wiles

Deputy Chief of Staff

Rachel Wiles serves as deputy chief of staff and director of the Psalm 139 Project for the ERLC. In her role, she coordinates the activity in…

Rachel Wilson

Rachel Wilson is wife to Andrew and mom to three great kids (two of whom have autism). She is co-author of The Life We Never Expected…

Rafa Albolote

Rafa is an ERLC policy intern and a rising senior at the College of William & Mary double majoring in Business Analytics with Data Science and…

Rafael Bello

Research Fellow

Rafael Bello is an assistant professor of Religious Studies and the Ida Elizabeth and J.W. Hollums Chair of Bible at Oklahoma Baptist University. Bello earned his…

Raleigh Sadler

Raleigh Sadler speaks and writes on the topics of vulnerability and human trafficking. He has been published at The Gospel Coalition, The Huffington Post, and The Ethics…

Randall Goodgame

Randy Alcorn

Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries (EPM), a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching biblical truth and drawing attention to the needy…

Randy C. Davis

Dr. Randy C. Davis became the executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board in 2010 (formerly Executive Board of the Tennessee Baptist Convention) after 34…

Randy Stinson

RaShan Frost

RaShan Frost

Senior Fellow

RaShan Frost serves as senior fellow focused on issues of human dignity. He is the lead pastor of The Bridge Church in North Charleston, South Carolina,…

Ray Ortlund

Ray graduated from Wheaton College as a Bachelor of Arts, from Dallas Theological Seminary as a Master of Theology, from The University of California at Berkeley…

Raymond Johnson

Raymond Johnson serves as Senior Pastor at Christ Church West Chester in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Southern Seminary. Raymond…

Rebecca Fried

Rebecca Fried serves as an intern in the ERLC’s Washington, D.C., office. She is a rising senior at the University of Notre Dame majoring in Theology…

Rebecca McLaughlin

Rebecca McLaughlin holds a Ph.D. in renaissance literature from Cambridge University and a theology degree from Oak Hill College in London. She is the cofounder of…

Rebekah Hannah

Rebekah Hannah is a biblical counselor at The Grace Center for Biblical Counseling at First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida. She is the editorial director and regularly contributes at Gospel Taboo. She…

Rechab Gray

Rechab Gray serves as Teaching Pastor at Cottage Grove Church in Des Moines, Iowa. Gray grew up as a military brat and has moved all over the…

Rene Bates

Renee Rizzo

Renée Rizzo spent the first part of her career in the corporate world of finance, marketing and strategic planning before entering church ministry in her home…

Research Staff

Rhyne Putman

Rhyne Putman is associate vice president for Academic Affairs, director of Worldview Formation, and professor of Christian Ministries at Williams Baptist University.

Rich Perez

Rich is the Pastor of Vision and Teaching at Christ Crucified Fellowship in New York City. Accepting the call of Jesus at a young age, Rich…

Richard Greene

Richard J. Mouw

Richard Land

Emeritus Fellow

Richard Land, D. Phil, is the executive editor of the Christian Post, having previously served as president of the ERLC (1988-2013) and president of Southern Evangelical…

Richard Stearns

Richard Stearns is president of World Vision U.S. and author of The Hole in our Gospel and Unfinished.

Rick Lance

Rick Lance is the state missionary and executive director of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions.

Rick Morton

Rick Warren

Rob Boyd

Rob Boyd has served as the Senior Pastor of Green Valley Baptist Church since 2003. Green Valley is a multicultural family of faith located in the…

Rob Collingsworth

Rob Collingsworth is the Director of External Relations at Criswell College in Dallas. He previously worked at Criswell as the Director of Communications and as the…

Rob McCutcheon

Rob McCutcheon is a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State focusing on the Middle East. He currently serves as the Deputy Director of…

Rob Schwarzwalder

Rob Schwarzwalder is a senior lecturer at Regent University.  His op-eds have been published in numerous national publications, ranging from TIME and U.S. News and World Report to Christianity Today, The Federalist, and The…

Rob Wilton

Rob Wilton serves as the lead and founding pastor of Vintage Church in New Orleans, La. He also serves as a chaplain for the New Orleans…

Robbie Seay

Robbie Seay lives in Houston with his wife, Liz, and their five children. He serves as a worship pastor at Bayou City Fellowship, and is also…

Robby Gallaty

Robby has served as Long Hollow’s Senior Pastor since October of 2015. His radical salvation in 2002 and a powerful journey since has led him to a passionate…

Robert Anderson

Dr. Robert J. Anderson, Jr. is in his 17th year of ministry at Colonial Baptist Church in Randallstown, MD. Dr. Anderson is originally from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.…

Robert J. Delahunty

Robert Delahunty grew up in New York City. He was educated by the Jesuit order at Regis High School in Manhattan and graduated summa cum laude…

Robert Nicolson

Robert P. George

Professor George holds Princeton's celebrated McCormick Chair in Jurisprudence and is the founding director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He served…

Robert Sloan

Dr. Robert B. Sloan is president of Houston Baptist University in Houston, Texas. Dr. Sloan and his wife Sue have seven adult children and more than…

Robert Welch

Robert Welch is the Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Charlotte, N.C. Prior to coming to Charlotte, he served as Senior Pastor of churches…

Robyn Chambers

Robyn Chambers is the program director for Option Ultrasound at Focus on the Family. In this role, she oversees all aspects of the program that provides…

Rod Dreher

Rod Dreher is a senior editor at The American Conservative.

Roland Warren

A graduate of Princeton University and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, Roland is an inspirational servant leader with a heart for…

Ron Edmondson

Ron is the Senior Pastor of Immanuel Baptist in Lexington, KY. Ron is passionate about planting churches, but also helping established churches thrive. He thrives on…

Ronald J. Sider

Ronald J. Sider, whose book Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger has been called one of the top 100 books in religion in the twentieth century, is a…

Ronni Kurtz

Ronni Kurtz (Ph.D., Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Cedarville University. Before moving to Ohio, Ronni was a pastor in Kansas…

Ronnie Floyd

Dr. Ronnie Floyd is president and CEO of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Ronnie Martin

Ronnie is lead pastor of Substance Church in Ashland, Ohio, and is co-host of The Art of Pastoring Podcast (w/Jared C. Wilson) and The Happy Rant…

Ronnie Parrott

Dr. Ronnie Parrott is the Lead Pastor at Christ Community Church in Huntersville, N.C., a suburb of Charlotte. He and his wife have six children. Ronnie’s…

Rosaria Butterfield

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, a former tenured professor of English and women’s studies at Syracuse University, converted to Christ in 1999 in what she describes as a…

Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat joined The New York Times as an Op-Ed columnist in April 2009. His column appears every Wednesday and Sunday. Previously, he was a senior editor at…

Roy Hayhurst

Rufus Smith

Rev. Rufus Smith, IV is the Senior Pastor of Hope Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the largest 100 congregations in America. He…

Rushan Abbas

Rushan Abbas is Founder and Executive Director of Campaign for Uyghurs.

Russell L. Meek

Russell L. Meek (Ph.D., Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is a speaker, writer, and professor who specializes in the Old Testament and its intersection with the Christian…

Russell Moore

Russell Moore is former President of the ERLC. He holds a Ph.D. in systematic theology from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. His latest book is The Courage to…

Ruth Brown

Ruth Brown is a wife and mother.

Ruth Chou Simons

Ruth Chou Simons is a bestselling author of several books, including ​GraceLaced​, Beholding and Becoming​, and ​Foundations.

Ruth Malhotra

Ruth Malhotra is Public Relations Manager for Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in Alpharetta, Georgia. She is a member of First Baptist Church Atlanta, and her areas…

Ryan Lintelman

Ryan Lintelman is the pastor of First Baptist Church in West Columbia, Texas. He is a pastor’s kid who grew up in the greater Houston Area.…

Ryan Rice

Ryan Rice Sr. is a native of New Orleans. He received his Bachelors of Arts Degree from Dillard University, where he studied Mass Communications graduating Magna…

Ryan T. Anderson

Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D., is the William E. Simon senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, where he researches and writes about marriage, bioethics, religious liberty…

Ryan Tucker

Research Fellow

Ryan Tucker serves as senior counsel and director of the Center for Christian Ministries with Alliance Defending Freedom. He oversees all litigation efforts to maintain and…

Ryan Welsh

Ryan Welsh serves as lead pastor of teaching for The Village Church (Southlake) in Southlake, Texas. He also teaches as an adjunct instructor at Southwestern Baptist…

Ryan West

Ryan West is the LoveLoud National Coordinator at the North American Mission Board. He helps churches throughout the United States and Canada establish and conduct gospel-centered…

Sally Lloyd-Jones

Sally is a New York Times bestselling children’s book writer. Her books include the critically acclaimed, ‘How To Be A Baby… By Me, the Big Sister’, Gold…

Sally Michael

Sally Michael is a co-founder of Truth:78 and has authored curricula and books that are all marked by a passion for developing God-centered resources for the…

Sam Allberry

Sam Allberry speaks around the world as a pastor, preacher and apologist. He is the author of Seven Myths About Singleness, Why Does God Care Who I Sleep…

Sam Dahl

Sam Dahl is the Executive Assistant to the President. He coordinates and manages all the logistics related to the president’s calendar and travel. Sam is currently…

Sam Haymore

Sam serves as an intern in the ERLC’s Washington, D.C., office. He is pursuing an MA in Political Communication through Regent University. He attends Imago Dei…

Sam O’Neil

Sam O’Neil lives with his wife Stephanie and their dog in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated from Texas A&M in 2012 and worked for two years at…

Sam Rainer

Sam Rainer serves as president of Church Answers and is a cofounder of Rainer Publishing. He is also lead pastor at West Bradenton Baptist Church in…

Sam Webb

Samantha Kilpatrick

Samuel “Dub” Oliver

Samuel W. “Dub” Oliver has been serving as Union’s 16th president since 2014. A native of San Antonio, he holds degrees from Baylor University and Texas…

Samuel D. Brownback

Ambassador Samuel D. Brownback, US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom at the State Department.

Samuel James

Samuel James serves as Communications Specialist in the Office of the President. He received his B.A. from Boyce College in Louisville, Ky. He and his wife,…

Samuel Rodriguez

Rev. Dr. Samuel Rodriguez is the President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC)/CONEL, the world’s largest Hispanic Christian organization serving as a representative voice…

Sandra Peoples

Sandra Peoples (M.Div.) is a special needs mom and sibling. She and her family live outside of Houston, Texas, where she serves her church as the…

Sandy Wisdom-Martin

Sandy Wisdom-Martin is executive director/treasurer of national Women’s Missionary Union.

Sara Barratt

Sara Barratt is the 22-year-old editor-in-chief for TheRebelution.com. She’s the author of Stand Up, Stand Strong: A Call to Bold Faith in a Confused Culture. She’s the…

Sara Beth Fentress

Sara Beth Fentress is the Founder and Executive Director of 127 Worldwide, a non profit that helps Christians tangibly live out James 1:27. God has grown…

Sara Stegall

Sara is a wife and a mom of four daughters. She enjoys being a part-time fitness instructor, reading, writing, hiking, going on dates with her husband,…

Sara Wallace

Sara Wallace graduated from The Master's University where she met her husband Dave. Within a few years she moved from classroom teacher to homeschool teacher. She…

Sarah Bradshaw

Sarah Bradshaw is a wedding photographer and business coach for creative entrepreneurs. Sarah and her husband Buck currently reside in South Carolina with their two children.…

Sarah Clift Allen

Sarah Allen is a freelance business consultant and an adjunct professor at Grand Canyon University. She and her husband have had the honor of having 20 delightful children…

Sarah Igleheart

Policy Associate

Sarah Igleheart serves as a policy associate in our Washington, D.C., office, advocating for the public policy interests of the Southern Baptist Convention. Prior to coming to…

Sarah Rainer

Sarah Rainer obtained both her master’s and doctorate degrees in Clinical Psychology. She specializes in working with children and families. Sarah and her husband, Art, have…

Sarah Rice

Sarah Rice is a pastor’s wife and mother of four. She holds a Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and…

Sarah Short

Sarah Short is a freelance writer and photographer from Raleigh, N.C. She is currently a regular contributor to jdgreear.com and has been published in Christianity Today,…

Sarah Torre

Sarah Torre focuses on policy issues related to life, religious liberty, and family as a visiting fellow in the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society…

Sarah Walton

Sarah Walton is the co-author of Hope When It Hurts and Together Through the Storms, and the author of Tears and Tossings: Hope in the Waves…

Sarah Welch

Sarah Welch is a pastor's wife with a background in education. She resides in Raleigh-Durham, NC, where she's raising her four young kids for Jesus. 

Scott Bertrand

Scott Bertrand serves as the Executive Assistant to the Provost at Houston Baptist University. He and his wife, Abby, have a daughter and a son. They…

Scott Foshie

Scott Foshie has been married to Audra since 2001, and they have enjoyed serving three churches in Tennessee over fifteen years where Scott served as an…

Scott Gilbert

Scott Gilbert serves as the senior pastor of Frederick Boulevard Baptist Church in St. Joseph, Missouri. Originally from Somerset, Kentucky, he served two churches in his…

Scott Hildreth

Scott Hildreth is Assistant Professor of Global Studies and George Liele director of the Center for Great Commission Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Scott James

Scott James

Research Fellow

Scott James is an associate professor & program director of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program for the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an author. He…

Scott Kedersha

Scott Klusendorf

Scott Klusendorf travels throughout the United States and Canada training pro-life advocates to persuasively defend their views in the public square. He contends that the pro-life…

Scott Patty

Scott Patty is the founding pastor of Grace Community Church. Before he began Grace in 1993, he served as a youth pastor for ten years. He…

Scott Redd

Dr. Scott Redd is the president and an associate professor of Old Testament at the Washington, D.C., campus of Reformed Theological Seminary. He cares deeply about the…

Scott Reger

Scott Sauls

Scott Sauls is senior pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee.  A graduate of Furman University and Covenant Seminary, Scott is married to Patti and is…

Sean DeMars

Sean Demars is one of the pastors of 6th Avenue Church of God in Decatur, Al. He has a wife and two daughters, two dogs, and about thirty…

Sean Martin

Sean Martin lives in Jacksonville, Florida, with his wife, Abby, and son, John. Sean has worked in golf media for the past 11 years, and currently…

Sean McDowell

Sean McDowell, Ph.D., is a Biola University professor, internationally recognized speaker, popular blogger, and the co-author of the new book So The Next Generation Will Know…

Sebastian Traeger

Sebastian grew up outside of Philadelphia and graduated from Princeton University in 1996 with a degree in Politics. He moved to Washington, DC to work in…

Seth Brown

Seth Brown is content editor for the Biblical Recorder, news journal of North Carolina Baptists, and lay pastor at Imago Dei Church in Raleigh, N.C. He…

Seth Woodley

Seth Woodley is the principal Faith Christian School in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. He completed a B.A. in English at the College of Charleston and an…

Shaka Mitchell

Shaka Mitchell serves as a Senior fellow for the American Federation for Children. He brings experience from several high-performing charter school networks, including Rocketship Education and…

Shane Idleman

Shane Idleman is the founder and lead pastor of Westside Christian Fellowship in Lancaster, California, just North of Los Angeles.

Shane Russell

Shane is the Lead Pastor of Shoal Creek Baptist Church in Deatsville, AL. After graduating from Auburn University with a degree in Forestry, Shane began working…

Shannon Royce

Shannon Royce is the president of the Christian Employers Alliance. She worked on Capitol Hill, serving as legislative assistant and then counsel for two U.S. Senators.…

Sharen Ford

Dr. Sharen Ford is the program director for Focus on the Family’s adoption and orphan care efforts. In this role, she helps raise awareness of the…

Sharon Dirckx

Sharon Dirckx is a senior tutor at the Oxford Center for Christian Apologetics (OCCA). Originally from a scientific background, she has a Ph.D. in brain imaging from…

Shawn Powers

Shawn Powers is the CEO of Baptist Community Health Services (BCHS).

Sheila Dougal

Sheila Dougal lives in Surprise, Arizona, with her husband and two sons. She serves as the kids ministry director at her local church and is a…

Shelly Durkee

Shelly Durkee is a Christ-follower who is keenly aware of God’s mercy and grace. She is the wife of Ken, God's gift of grace to her,…

Sherelle Ducksworth

Sherelle Ducksworth is a Sociology instructor at Louisburg College and a Ph.D. student in Systematic Theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Her research interests included Trinitarian…

Sherif Girgis

Sherif Girgis was born in Cairo and grew up in Delaware. He majored in philosophy at Princeton, where he won several academic prizes, including the 2007 Dante Prize for the nation’s best undergraduate essay on Dante. His senior…

Shona Murray

Shona Murray is a mother of five children and has homeschooled for fifteen years. She is a medical doctor and worked as a family practitioner in…

Sinclair Ferguson

Dr. Sinclair Ferguson is a Ligonier teaching fellow and Chancellor's Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary since 2017, commuting from Scotland where he is an…

Smooth Via

Smooth is a follower of Jesus, husband, and father. He and his wife Kelly have four girls, Cana, Kayil, Chloe, and Karis. Their journey in following…

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari is a former editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal, based in London, where he also wrote the Border Lands column on security in…

Spence Spencer

Stacey Keck

Accountant

Stacey Keck has served in the business and finance office since 2008. She assists the chief financial officer with accounting and human resource functions. Stacey is…

Stacy Reaoch

Stacy Reaoch is a pastor’s wife, mother of four and co-author of Making Room for Her- Biblical Wisdom for Healthier Relationship with Your Mother-In-Law or Daughter-In-Law.…

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Stephanie Goeke

Stephanie Holmes

Stephanie Holmes is a lawyer who works as an in-house employment counsel for a company outside of Chicago, Ill. She received her Bachelor of Arts in…

Stephanie Laferriere

Stephanie Laferriere works as a gospel worker for ONE HOPE serving at The Garden Church in Baltimore, Maryland. You can follow her on Twitter.

Stephanie Little

Stephanie Little is a writer and a Bible teacher. For ten years, she taught women of all ages at First Baptist Jacksonville, Florida. During her time…

Stephanie O. Hubach

Stephanie O. Hubach (MATS, Covenant Theological Seminary) is research fellow in disability ministries at Covenant Theological Seminary and visiting instructor in the seminary’s educational ministries program.…

Stephen Altrogge

Stephen Altrogge is a husband, dad, and writer. His most recent book is entitled, Untamable God: Encountering the One Who Is Bigger, Better, and More Dangerous Than…

Stephen Byrd

Stephen Byrd is an associate professor of education at Elon University. He serves as a pastor at Grace Reformed Baptist Church in Mebane, NC. For 10 years,…

Stephen Grcevich

Stephen Grcevich, M.D., is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, serving as president and founder of Key Ministry, an organization that promotes meaningful…

Stephen Johnson

Stephen Johnson serves as a pastor at Summit Church in Southwest Florida. He earned his B.S. in Finance and M.B.A. from Florida Gulf Coast University. Stephen…

Stephen Partain

Stephen Partain is currently leading Kings Church, a church of missional communities committed to making good news tangible in the city of New Orleans. Prior to his…

Stephen Presley

Research Fellow

Stephen Presley serves as Senior Fellow for Religion and Public Life at the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy, an initiative of First Liberty Institute, and…

Stephen Stallard

Stephen Stallard is the lead pastor of Mosaic Baptist Church in Brooklyn. He graduated from Baptist Bible Seminary. Stephen serves as one of the primary preachers,…

Steve Bezner

Steve Bezner has been the Senior Pastor of Houston Northwest Church since 2013. Steve was born and raised in Gainesville, Texas. He is a graduate of…

Steve Gaines

Steve Hoppe

Steve Hoppe is the founder and Executive Director of Crosstown Counseling. He has over a decade of counseling experience working both as a pastor and full-time…

Steve Lemke

Emeritus Fellow

Steve Lemke is professor of Philosophy and Ethics and provost emeritus at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is also a founding member of the ERLC’s Research…

Steve Swofford

Steve is the Head Pastor at First Baptist Church Rockwall, TX. Steve has been the pastor of FBC Rockwall since 1989. He graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological…

Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor is the pastor of Emerald Coast Fellowship in Panama City, Florida. 

Steve Timmis

Steve Timmis is a church planter in Sheffield, England, and CEO for Acts 29.

Steven Aden

Steven H. Aden serves as Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel at Americans United for Life. Aden joined Americans United for Life in August 2017, overseeing all legal…

Steven Bush

Steven Castello

Steven Castello

Steven is the Lead Pastor and planter for City on a Hill Church in Boston, MA. He previously planted Immanuel Church in Birmingham, AL, before moving…

Steven Curtis Chapman

Steven Curtis Chapman, Show Hope’s co-founder and Vice President, is an award winning singer/songwriter and recording artist with sales of over 11 million records. He has…

Steven Harris

Steven Harris holds a B.S. in Religion from Vanderbilt University, an M.Div. from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, an M.A. in Religion from Yale University, and…

Steven M. Lee

Steven M. Lee serves as the founding pastor of Redeemer City Church in Washington, D.C. He earned his B.A. in Political Science from University of Maryland…

Steven Smith

Steven Smith married to his wife Ashley and has three wonderful children.  Currently he serves as the Vice President for Student Services and Professor of Preaching at…

Sunni Harris

Sunni Harris is a Litigation Attorney.

Supriya G. Reddy

Supriya G. Reddy currently serves as a children's ministry volunteer at Creekstone Church and was an active member at The Church at Brook Hills for many years. She…

Susan Codone

Susan Codone, Ph.D., is a full professor and administrator at Mercer University and a member of Ingleside Baptist Church in Macon, Ga., where she has served…

Susan McCrary

Susan McCrary and her husband Larry raised their kids, Parker and Megan, overseas in Europe. She now works as a consultant in helping families with educational…

Susie Hawkins

Susie Hawkins lives in Dallas and has been actively involved in ministry as a pastor’s wife, teacher and volunteer. A noted author, Susie holds a Master…

T. Elliot Gaiser

T. Elliot Gaiser is a conservative millennial from Cleveland, Ohio. He is a graduate of Hillsdale College and a law student at The University of Chicago. 

Tabitha Rainwater

Tabitha Rainwater lives in Kansas City where she teaches elementary school in the inner city and serves as Director of Kids at her local church, Emmaus…

Tami Fitzgerald

Tami Fitzgerald, NC Values' Executive Director, has spent a lifetime serving and protecting pro-life, pro-family, and pro-religious liberty values. Whether it is through 22+ years of…

Taryn Mays

Taryn Mays serves as the Lead Groups Minister at The Village Church in Plano, Texas. She received her B.S. in Leadership Studies from Texas A&M University…

Taylor Barkley

Taylor Barkley is the Government Affairs Manager at the Competitive Enterprise Institute where he works to develop relationships with U.S. lawmakers and agency staff, expand CEI’s…

Taylor Combs

Taylor Combs serves as associate publisher of Christian living and leadership books at B&H Publishing Group. He is a graduate of Lipscomb University and The Southern…

Taylor Field

Taylor Field has been working with Compassion Ministries with the North American Mission Board for over 35 years.

Taylor Rutland

Taylor Rutland is senior pastor at First Baptist Dothan, Alabama. He holds a Master of Divinity, Master of Theology, and Ph.D. from the New Orleans Baptist…

TC Taylor

TC Taylor is the the lead pastor of New Breed Church in Louisville, Ky. TC was born and raised in Terre Haute, Ind. After graduating high…

Tedrick Woods

Tedrick Woods is the senior pastor of Living Word Fellowship Church in Dallas, Texas. Rev. Woods is married to Latanya F. Woods (who is an elementary…

Teresa Chambers

Teresa Chambers serves as the Interim Head of School at First Baptist Academy in Houston, Texas. She has been a part of First Baptist Academy since…

Terry Delaney

Terry Delaney has been in vocational ministry since July 2005 serving as a youth pastor, children’s pastor, co-pastor of a church plant, and now as senior pastor…

Terry W. Dorsett

Terry W. Dorsett has lived in New England as a pastor, author, and denominational leader for over 30 years. Since 2015, he has served as the…

Tessa Sanchez

Tessa Sanchez is a writer for the IMB.

Thabiti Anyabwile

Thern Newbell

Thom Rainer

Thom S. Rainer is a former president and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources. Prior to LifeWay, he served at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary for twelve…

Thomas Gamble

Thomas Gamble serves as the Pastor for Missions and College at St. Andrew Baptist Church in Panama City, Fl. He and his wife Chelsea have been…

Thomas S. Kidd

Research Fellow

Thomas S. Kidd serves as research professor of Church History at Midwestern & the John and Sharon Yeats Endowed Chair of Baptist Studies. Kidd completed a…

Thomas White

Thomas White became the 10th president of Cedarville University on July 1, 2013. Serving in a variety of leadership roles and responsibilities, White has more than…

Thomas Willis

Thomas Willis is the executive video producer and marketing coordinator at the ERLC. He serves on the communications team, shooting and editing videos, monitoring Web analytics,…

Thor Madsen

Dr. Thor Madsen has been at Midwestern Seminary since 1999 and is currently Dean of Graduate Studies, PhD Program Director and Professor of New Testament, Ethics…

Tiffany Elkins

Tim Blackmon

Tim Chester

Tim Counts

Tim Counts is the pastor of Northshire Baptist Church in Manchester Center, Vermont, and is the content manager for Small Town Summits, a ministry affiliated with TGC New…

Tim Ellsworth

Tim Ellsworth is the Associate Vice President for University Communications at Union University. He is married, has three children and is a deacon at Cornerstone Community Church. He…

Tim Goeglein

Tim Kyle

Tim Kyle is the president of BLF Editions, a not-for-profit French-speaking Christian ministry that publishes Christian literature. He tweets (mostly in French) at @timkyle

Tim Lubinus

Tim Lubinus has served as Executive Director of the Baptist Convention of Iowa since 2014. Formerly he served as the missions pastor at Cornerstone Church in…

Tim Mackall

Policy Associate

Tim Mackall serves as a policy associate in the ERLC’s Washington, D.C., office. He is responsible for advocating for Southern Baptist beliefs before the U.S. government and…

Tim Patterson

Tim Scheiderer

Tim Scheiderer (M.Div, Southern Seminary) is a freelance writer living in metro Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter. His other writings can be found at…

Tim Walker

Tim Walker is the Pastoral Care and Communications Pastor at First Baptist Church Biloxi and an Adjunct Instructor at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is…

Timothy Paul Jones

Todd Brady

Todd Brady serves as Vice President for University Ministries and Assistant Professor of Theology and Missions at Union University in Jackson, Tenn. He received a Bachelor…

Todd E. Brady

Todd Brady is the Assistant Professor of Ministry and Vice President for University Ministries. He received his D.Min. at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, M.Div. at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and B.S. at Union University.

Todd Gray

Todd Gray is the executive director-treasurer at the Kentucky Baptist Convention. Gray has pastored churches in Kentucky and Indiana for 20 years and has served on…

Todd Kaunitz

Todd Kaunitz serves as a Lead Pastor for one of East Texas’ fastest growing churches, New Beginnings Baptist Church (NBBC), located in Longview. He is also the…

Todd Lafferty

Todd Lafferty

Todd Lafferty is executive vice president of the International Mission Board. He first served as a Journeyman in Scotland from 1983-1985. He and his wife, Susan,…

Todd R. Chipman

Todd R. Chipman, Ph.D., has been the teaching pastor at The Master’s Community Church (SBC), Kansas City, Kansas, since 2000. Todd also serves as an assistant…

Todd Unzicker

With a passion for the local church and the Great Commission, Todd Unzicker’s vision for North Carolina Baptists is focused on rallying them to be a…

Todd Wagner

Tom Strode

Tom Strode serves as a correspondent for Baptist Press. Tom and his wife, Linda, have been married since 1978. They have two children with wonderful spouses…

Tommy Green

Tony Beam

Tony Beam serves as the Director of Church and Community Engagement and Public Affairs at North Greenville University in Tigerville, S.C. He also serves as the…

Tony Evans

Dr. Tony Evans is one of the country’s most respected leaders in evangelical circles. As a pastor, teacher, author and speaker, he serves the body of…

Tony Merida

Tony Merida is pastor for Preaching and Vision of Imago Dei Church, Raleigh, North Carolina; director of Theological Training for Acts 29; and a council member…

Tony Reinke

My name is Tony Reinke, an author and non-profit journalist in the Twin Cities. My work focuses on how we best flourish in a digital age…

Tony Wolfe

Tony Wolfe is the executive director-treasurer of SCBaptist. Previously, he was the associate executive director of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention. Tony holds degrees from Southwestern…

Tracy Fries

Tracey Fries is the wife of Micah, and mother to three children. 

Tracy McElhattan

Dr. Tracy McElhattan serves as Director of Early Childhood Ministries at Blue Valley Baptist Church in Overland Park, Kan. She also writes and edits Sunday School…

Travis Southern

Travis Southern is the Senior Pastor of Richland Baptist Church, Richland, Wash. He attended the University of Oklahoma with degrees in Chemistry and Business. While attending…

Travis Wussow

Travis Wussow is the former Vice President for Public Policy and General Counsel. Travis led the ERLC’s first international office located in the Middle East prior…

Trent Hunter

Trent Hunter serves as pastor for preaching and teaching at Heritage Bible Church in Greer, South Carolina. He is the author of Joshua (Crossway, 2016) and Graphical Greek: A Quick Reference Guide…

Trevin Wax

Trevor Atwood

Trey Meek

Trey Meek has the privilege of serving as the Lead Pastor of First Baptist Church of Rogersville, Tennessee. He holds a D.Min. in Applied Apologetics from…

Trillia Newbell

Trillia Newbell is the author of several books including A Great Cloud of Witnesses, Sacred Endurance, If God Is For Us, Fear and Faith,and the children’s books, Creative…

Trip Lee

Tyler Deeb

Tyler Hurst

Tyler D. Hurst is the senior associate pastor at The Journey Church (EFCA) of Tucson in Tucson, Arizona. He is a Ph.D. Student in Ethics at…

Tyler O’Neil

Assistant Editor of PJ Media, Tyler O'Neil is a conservative commentator. He has written for numerous publications, including The Christian Post, National Review, The Washington Free…

Vance H. Pitman

Vance H. Pitman is the senior pastor of Hope Church in Las Vegas, Navada. 

Vance Pitman

Vance Pitman is the Senior Pastor of Hope Church Las Vegasand the author of UNBURDENED: Stop Living for Jesus So Jesus Can Live Through You. As…

Vicki Courtney

Vicki Courtney is a national speaker and the author of many books and Bible studies for women of all ages. Her latest releases, What About Me? (for…

Victor Vieth

Victor Vieth is the director of Education and Research for the Zero Abuse project and the author of On This Rock: A Call to Center the…

Vincent DiCaro

Vincent DiCaro is the chief outreach officer of Care Net.

Von Paxton

Von Paxton serves as the Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Cordele, Georgia. Prior to serving at FBC Cordele, Von pastored in North Texas for…

Wade Phillips

Wade serves as Associate Pastor at Northcrest Baptist Church in Meridian, Miss. Before coming on staff, he spent 20 years in the TV news business as…

Walter Strickland

Born in Chicago and raised in Southern California, Walter’s passion is to equip people to flourish in their context from a deep commitment to God’s design.…

Wendy Alsup

Wes Fowler

Dr. Wes Fowler serves as executive director-treasurer of the Missouri Baptist Convention, a network of more than 1,700 churches that work together to advance the gospel…

Wes Terry

Wes Terry is the lead pastor at Broadview Baptist Church in Abilene, Texas. He recieved his MDiv from Southwestern Seminary in 2011 and plans to pursue…

Wesley Mills

Wesley Mills is the Senior Pastor at First Baptist Church in Atlanta, Texas. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Ark.…

Wesley Vance

Wesley Vance is the Senior Pastor of the Fellowship Kansas City. He holds a Masters and Doctorate degree from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Prior to serving…

Whitney Alexander

Whitney Alexander is a pastor’s wife, mom to three children, and an account manager for Venture Marketing Group in Gadsden, Alabama. She is a 2008 graduate…

Whitney K. Pipkin

Whitney K. Pipkin

Whitney K. Pipkin is a journalist and writer living with her husband and three kids in Northern Virginia, where they are members of Grace Bible Church.…

Will Standridge

Will Standridge serves as the preteen and atudent pastor at Paramount Baptist Church in Amarillo, Texas. He received his B.A. from Boyce College and M.Div. from…

William “Duce” Branch

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William H. Prince

William H. Prince is a recent high school graduate. He plans to pursue a degree in political science and international busines at Eastern Kentucky University. William…

William Isaacson

Dr. William Isaacson “Willie” is Senior Pastor of First Baptist, Richmond, Missouri where he has served for over 11 years. He currently serves as the Chair…

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Willis Deitz

Willis Deitz is husband to Whitney and father to Eden, Piper, and Anna. He serves as Kids Director at Pleasant Valley Community Church in Owensboro, Kentucky.…

Willy Rice

William (Willy) Rice is the pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in Clearwater, Fla. In 2004 he returned to the Tampa Bay area where he was…

Won Kwak

Won Kwak is a second generation church planter and pastor. He is the lead planter of Maranatha Grace Church, a multi-cultural church located right outside Manhattan.…

Wren Yaeger

Wren worked as the Content and Messaging Coordinator at 127 Worldwide. She and her husband, Wyatt, have a son named Mordecai and now live in the…

Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry…

Zach Cochran

Zach serves as executive pastor at Sojourn Church J-town in Louisville, Kentucky. Before this role, he served in student ministry for more than a decade at…

Zach Souter

Zach Souter serves as the Lead Pastor of Taylor Memorial Baptist Church in Hobbs N.M. He has a BBS in Church Ministry from Hardin-Simmons University, an…

Zachary Jones

Zachary Jones is a student at Florida State University, where he studies Political Science and International Affairs, and researches political Islam and religious freedom. He is…

Zachary Welch

Zachary Welch is an attorney, a logistics services consultant for the International Mission Board, an adjunct professor, and the outreach pastor at Providence Baptist Church in…

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