Rachel Held Evans (1981–2019) was the New York Times bestselling author of Inspired, Searching for Sunday, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, and Faith Unraveled. Hailing from Dayton, Tennessee, she wrote about faith, doubt and life in the Bible Belt. Rachel was featured in numerous publications, including the Washington Post, The Guardian, and the Huffington Post, and appeared on NPR, BBC, the Today show, and The View. She served on President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Jeff Chu is co-curator of Evolving Faith, alongside Sarah Bessey, who founded the gathering with Rachel Held Evans. He is also the author of Does Jesus Really Love Me? and an editor-at-large at Travel+Leisure. He, his husband, Tristan, and their dog, Fozzie, make their home in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Sarah Bessey is a writer and award-winning blogger at sarahbessey.com, an editor at A Deeper Story, and a contributor at SheLoves magazine. She lives in Abbotsford,
British Columbia, Canada, with her husband, Brian, and their three children,
Anne, Joseph, and Evelynn.
Nadia Bolz-Weber is the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints, an ELCA mission church in Denver, Colorado. She’s a leading voice in the emerging church movement and her writing can be found in the Christian Century and Jim Wallis’s God’s Politics blog. She is author of Salvation on the Small Screen?: 24 Hours of Christian Television and the Sarcastic Lutheran blog.
Kristen Howerton is a licensed marriage and family therapist and the mother of four children within four years via birth and adoption. She is the founder of the blog Rage Against the Minivan where, in the midst of writing about the raw emotions and experience of motherhood, she has become a fierce advocate for social justice, orphan care, and helping fellow parents to step up to hard conversations about race with their kids. Howerton has created several popular humor destinations online, including the popular Tumblr "Pinterest You Are Drunk" and the #assholeparent meme and Instagram account. She is the co-host of
Selfie, a podcast dedicated to exploring the mind, body, and spirit aspects of self-care.
Kaitlin B. Curtice is a citizen of the Potawatomi Nation as well as a Christian, public speaker, and poet. She travels around the country speaking on faith and justice within the church as it relates to Indigenous peoples and has been a featured speaker at Why Christian, Evolving Faith, Wild Goose Festival, The Festival of Faith & Writing, The Revolutionary Love Conference, and more. Curtice is a monthly columnist for Sojourners, has contributed to On Being and Religion News Service, and has been featured on CBS and in USA Today and the New Yorker for her work on having difficult conversations within the church about colonization. She is the author of Glory Happening: Finding the Divine in Everyday Places and writes on her blog at kaitlincurtice.com.
Kathy Khang is director of campus access initiatives with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA. She previously was InterVarsity’s regional multiethnic director and area director for Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She is a speaker, journalist, and activist, a columnist for
Sojourners magazine, and a coauthor of
More Than Serving Tea: Asian American Women on Expectations, Relationships, Leadership and Faith.Amena Brown is an author, spoken word poet, speaker, and event host. The author of five spoken word albums and two non-fiction books, Amena performs and speaks at events from coffeehouses to arenas with a mix of poetry, humor, and storytelling. She and her husband, DJ Opdiggy, reside in Atlanta, GA.
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