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TIM BOCK is a successful entrepreneur and businessman who has
created business to fund mission projects and worked as a missions-business
consultant around the world.
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MICHAEL BUDDE is Chair of the Department of Political Science at
DePaul University. He is a founder of The Ekklesia Project, an ecumenical
network of Christian activists and educators.
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JAN CARLEKLEV is a sound artist from Sweden who, along with
composing in many different genres, builds instruments from recycled
electronic gear and circuit boards.
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JONATHAN CASE is Associate Professor of Theology at Houghton
College (Houghton, New York). He's also taught in the South Pacific and
Russia and served as a pastor in Oklahoma.
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WILLIAM CAVANAUGH is Professor of Theology at the University of
St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of the books Torture and
Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ, Theopolitical
Imagination, and Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire.
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SHANE CLAIBORNE is the author of The Irresistible Revolution
and a founding partner of The Simple Way Community in inner city Philadelphia that
has helped to birth and connect radical faith communities around the world,
many of whom have become known as a "new monasticism".
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NANCY NALL DERRINGER Nancy Nall Derringer worked for the Fort
Wayne News-Sentinel for twenty years and is now a freelancer. She has a deep
respect for the Internet as a Great Equalizer. (But, all things being equal,
she doesn't want to see newspapers go away entirely.)
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CRYSTAL DOWNING, Professor of English and film studies at Messiah
College, is the author of How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith: Questioning
Truth in Language, Philosophy and Art.
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ASHLEY EDWARDS is a youth therapist in South Florida. She has a
master's degree in Social Work and is a public speaker on relationship
issues.
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BILL ELLIS a Fellow of the American Folklore Society's Executive
Board, wrote Raising the Devil and Lucifer Ascending. He's working on a study
of rumors and legends inspired by immigration.
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RORY FELTON owns and operates The Militia Group, an independent
record company based in L.A.
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DAVID GRIFFITH wrote the book of essays by which this seminar is
titled. His work has appeared in the Utne Reader, Image, and Godspy.com,
where he is a contributing editor.
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MIMI HADDAD is president of Christians for Biblical Equality. She
holds a ph.D in Historical Theology from the University of Durham, England,
and is a founding member of the Evangelicals and GEnder Study Group at the
Evangelical Theological Society.
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CHRIS HALE was raised in Nepal and India where he was first
introduced to the sitar and Indian devotional music. In 1999, he helped
fround the devotional fusion group, Aradhna.
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BRADLEY HATHAWAY has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and
internationally as a spoken word artist.
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CHRIS HAW is an aspiring potter, carpenter, painter, and theologian. Haw
and his wife, Cassie, are members of Camden House, a community in
Camden, New Jersey.
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JOHN & TINA HERRIN John & Tina Herrin have been married for 36
years, with three children and three grandkids. Tina has an M.Div. from
North Park Theological Seminary and has counseled and taught on marriage and
relationships for three decades. John is the Cornerstone Festival
director.
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GLENN KAISER & TOM CAMERON are pastors at Jesus People USA, an
inner-city Chicago Christian community. From Resurrection Band through his
current Glenn Kaiser Band, Glenn has toured and recorded for thirty years.
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WENDI KAISER shared lead vocals with husband Glenn in Resurrection
Band and has lectured on spirituality, relationships and sexuality around the
world with candor, compassion and humor.
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J. GORDON MELTON is director of the Institute for
the Study of American Religion, a researcher with the Department of Religious
studies of U of C-Santa Barbara, and author of many books.
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DEELIGHT MURPHY & DEB STRAHAN, each have close family members with
mental illness.
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CHARLIE PEACOCK is a Grammy Award-winning
producer, songwriter and singer. He founded and co-directs the
Nashville-based Art House, and frequently speaks and writes on the
arts.
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SANDY RAMSEY is Executive Director of Cornerstone Community
Outreach in Chicago.
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KAREN SLOAN wrote the book that titles this seminar. As a
Presbyterian minister, she frequently speaks on and leads groups in ancient
spiritual practices.
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ANTHONY SMITH serves on the national coordinating group of
Emergent Village, and has contributed to several books. His blog is Musings
of a Postmodern Negro.
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CHRISTINE SNEERINGER is the executive director of Worthy Creations
in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She is a conference speaker and freelance
writer.
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MICHAEL SPENCER's Internet Monk web site has provided a helpful
conversation for thousands of people wandering in the contemporary
evangelical wilderness.
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NEIL TAYLOR is a pastor with Jesus People USA, a Christian
community in Chicago.
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GARY UREMOVICH is an Assistant Professor and Program Director of
Physician Assistant Studies at Wingate University near Charlotte, North
Carolina. His is a clinician, educator, and lay minister.
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MIROSLAV VOLF Miroslav Volf is professor of systematic theology
at Yale Divinity School and explores a theology of reconciliation in a world
of tribal conflicts through the lens of his own Balkan background.
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KEITH WASSERMAN founded and directs Good Works, Inc. in Athens,
Ohio.
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ANDY WHITMAN is a Senior Contributing Editor for Paste magazine,
where he writes a monthly column called "Listening to My Life," feature
articles and album reviews.
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VINITA HAMPTON WRIGHT has been editing books for fifteen years, having worked
full-time for three publishers and currently part-time for Loyola Press in Chicago.
While working full-time as an editor she wrote her first two novels, Grace at Bender
Springs and Velma Still Cooks in Leeway. In 2005 she published the book The Soul
Tells a Story (InterVarsity Press), which grew out of her work as a retreat/workshop
facilitator.
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CHRISTIAN PEACEMAKER TEAMS (CPT) is an ecumenical organization
working to reduce violence in Colombia and elsewhere around the
world.
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