Mitch Chase (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) lives in Louisville, KY with his wife Stacie and children. He is the Preaching Pastor at Kosmosdale Baptist Church in Louisville, as well as an Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of Resurrection Hope and the Death of […]

A pastor and church planter for thirty years, Stephen McAlpine now writes and speaks on issues of theology, culture and church, in particular the increasing pressures on religious belief in the secular public square. He is married to Jill, who runs a clinical psychology practice in Perth, and they have two children.

Craig Allen Cooper is a USA Today bestselling author and keynote speaker. He cowrote the book Glad You’re Here with Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Walker Hayes. Glad You’re Here instantly became a Publishers Weekly, ECPA, and USA Today national bestseller and has been featured on The TODAY Show, People magazine, The 700 Club, Family Life Radio, and […]

Christopher Ash is writer in residence at Tyndale House in Cambridge. He previously served as a pastor and church planter and as the director of the Proclamation Trust Cornhill Training Course in London. He and his wife, Carolyn, are members of a church in Cambridge, and they have four children and numerous grandchildren.

Jim Essian planted The Paradox Church in 2011 in Downtown Fort Worth and serves as Lead Pastor. He played eight years of professional baseball in the Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Detroit Tigers organizations, prior to planting. He founded the church planting network Plant Fort Worth, which has seen 15 churches planted in […]

Whitney K. Pipkin lives with her husband, three children and a dog named Honeybun in Northern Virginia, where they are longtime members of Grace Bible Church in Lorton. She has worked as a journalist for a decade and a half, with articles appearing in The Washington Post, National Geographic and NPR alongside her regular work […]

Kristin Elizabeth Couch is a pastor’s wife, the mother of four grown children, and a grandmother. She graduated from Taylor University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Writing. Kristin has written for Desiring God and Legacy Coalition, is a regular contributor to “Written” for SBC Virginia, and has also been a featured […]