Meet Our Speakers

Dawn Alitz

Director of Communities and Coaching, Faith+Lead – Luther Seminary

Anthony Bailey

Lead Minister, Parkdale United Church, Ottawa, Canada

William Barber II

President, Repairers of the Breach, Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign and Pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church, North Carolina

Traci Blackmon

Executive Minister of Justice and Local Church Ministries, UCC; Senior Pastor, Christ the King

Nadia Bolz-Weber

Author, Founder of House for All Sinners & Saints in Denver & creator and host of The Confessional

Kelly Brown Douglas

Dean of Episcopal Divinity School; Union Theological Seminary

Thema S. Bryant

2021 President-Elect Candidate; American Psychological Association

Amy Butler

Interim Senior Minister, National City Christian Church

Anna Carter Florence

Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching, Columbia Theological Seminary

Cláudio Carvalhaes

Associate Professor of Worship, Union Theological Seminary

Ian Cummins

Co-Pastor at Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church

The Fleshpots of Egypt

Bluegrass/Folk Music Group

Dawn Hand

Central Maryland District Superintendent; Baltimore-Washington Conference

David Howell

Consultant and Founder, Festival of Homiletics

Rolf Jacobson

Professor of Old Testament, Luther Seminary

Alonzo Johnson

Coordinator, Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People

Serene Jones

President of Union Theological Seminary and Johnston Family Professor for Religion & Democracy

Eunjoo Mary Kim

Professor of Homiletics and Liturgics, Iliff School of Theology, Denver

Jacqui Lewis

Senior Minister, Middle Collegiate Church, New York

Karoline Lewis

Professor and the Marbury E. Anderson Chair of Biblical Preaching, Luther Seminary

David Lose

Senior Pastor, Mount Olivet Lutheran Church

The Many

Worship Band

Joy J. Moore

Professor of Biblical Preaching; Vice President of Academic Affairs and Academic Dean, Luther Seminary

Otis Moss III

Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ

Vashti Murphy McKenzie

Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

Amelia & Emily Nagoski

Authors & Public Speakers

Yolanda Pierce

Dean, Howard University School of Divinity and a Professor of Religion & Literature and Womanist Theology

Luke Powery

Dean of Duke University Chapel & Associate Professor of Homiletics at the Divinity School

Clover Reuter Beal

Co-Pastor; Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church

Tom Rodgerson

Director of the M.A. program in Spiritual and Pastoral Care; Loyola and LCPC; CentrePointe Counseling

Cindy Senarighi

Author, Speaker and Co-founder/CEO of Yogadevotion

Kelly Sherman-Conroy

Main Liturgist for the Festival & Minister of Social Justice & Advocacy for CYF Ministry; Nativity Lutheran Church

Matthew L. Skinner

Professor of New Testament, Luther Seminary; Scholar for Adult Education, Westminster Presbyterian Church

Debie Thomas

Minister of Lifelong Formation; St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto

Frank Thomas

Nettie Sweeney and Hugh Th. Miller Professor of Homiletics, Christian Theological Seminary

Deanna Thompson

Director, Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community & Martin E. Marty Regents Chair in Religion and the Academy; St. Olaf College

Richard Ward

Fred B. Craddock Professor Emeritus, Phillips Seminary

Raphael Warnock

Senior Pastor, Ebenezer Baptist Church

Matthew Weber

Main Liturgist for the Festival & Pastor of Strategic Partnerships, Grace Lutheran Church

Sam Wells

Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields in central London, and Visiting Professor of Christian Ethics at King’s College London

Robert Wicks

Author, Psychologist, and Speaker

Lauren Winner

Assistant Professor of Christian Spirituality, Duke Divinity School

Robert Wright

Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta