Charles Mathewes

Charles Mathewes is the Carolyn M. Barbour Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He was the editor of The Journal of the American Academy of Religion and of the third edition of the Westminster Dictionary of Christian Ethics. He is also the Chair of the Committee on the Future of Christian Ethics by the Society of Christian Ethics. His most recent publications include The Republic of Grace: Augustinian Thoughts for Dark Times and Understanding Religious Ethics.

Robert Roberts

Robert Roberts is Distinguished Professor of Ethics at Baylor University. He has been awarded research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Pew Charitable Trusts, and is currently a Senior Fellow in the Center for Theological Inquiry, in the inquiry into Religious Experience and Moral Identity. He is the author of Emotions in the Moral Life (2013).

Mark Berner

A social entrepreneur and consultant to foundations and non-profits, Mark Berner is the CEO and co-chairman of Telos, a forum for Christian leaders of international stature from business, finance, science, religion, public policy, the media, the academy, and the arts, committed to renewing public culture.

Willie Jennings

Willie Jennings is Associate Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School. He teaches in the areas of systematic theology, black church and cultural studies, and is an ordained Baptist minister. He is the author of The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race, and also the winner of the 2015 Grawemeyer Award in Religion.

Michael Fishbane

Michael Fishbane is the Nathan Cummings Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago, where he has served as Chair of its Committee on Jewish Studies. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research. In 2005, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Jewish Scholarship from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. He is the author of The Exegetical Imagination: On Jewish Thought and Theology.

Daniel Chua

Daniel Chua is Professor of Music and the Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. He was a fellow and the Director of Studies at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and later Professor of Music Theory and Analysis at King’s College London. He was also the Henry Fellow at Harvard and the recipient of the 2004 Royal Musical Association’s Dent Medal. He is the author of Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Nicholas Wolterstorff is the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. Two of his most recent publications are Journey toward Justice and Justice in Love. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

N. T. Wright

N. T. Wright is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews. He was formerly the Bishop of Durham, having earlier held teaching positions in Oxford, Cambridge, and McGill Universities and church appointments in Lichfield and at Westminster Abbey. His publications include The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is and The Resurrection of the Son of God. 

Jonathan Sacks

Jonathan Sacks is the Ingeborg and Ira Rennert Global Distinguished Professor of Judaic Thought at NYU, the Kressel and Ephrat Family University Professor of Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University, and Professor of Law, Ethics, and the Bible at King’s College London. Previously, he served as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. His publications include Celebrating Life: Finding Happiness in Unexpected Places and To Heal A Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility.

Jürgen Moltmann

Jürgen Moltmann is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at the University of Tübingen. He is a former member of the Faith and Order Committee of the World Council of Churches and also the Robert W. Woodruff Distinguished Visiting Professor of Systematic Theology at Candler School at Emory University. He is the author of Experiences of Joy: Ways and Forms of Christian Theology and also the winner of the 2000 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion.

Caroline Ainsworth Hughes

Rev. Caroline Ainsworth Hughes serves as the Minister for Christian Formation at the Wilton Congregational Church in Wilton, Connecticut. There she gets to put her many years of children’s and youth ministry to work serving children and families of the congregation and wider community.

Rev. Hughes received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University (B.S. 2008) and her Master of Divinity from Princeton Seminary (2020). She is married to her husband Jake and the two live in New York City with their young son, Henry.

Skip Masback

Skip Masback is the Founding Director of the Yale Youth Ministry Institute and the former Associate Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He came to Yale after serving for 19 years at The Congregational Church of New Canaan. Skip retired from Yale in December 2018 and currently serves as Chair of the Advisory Board for the Center for Continuing Education at Yale Divinity School.

In addition to the customary responsibilities of preaching, teaching and pastoral care, Skip’s ministry has always included substantial emphasis on deepening and broadening youth ministries both in the church and beyond. He has lectured […]