Preston Perry is a poet, performance artist, teacher, and apologist from Chicago. Preston's writing and teaching has been featured on ministry platforms, such as the Poets in Autumn Tour, and Legacy Disciple. Preston is cohost of the popular podcast, With the Perrys. He created Bold Apparel and the YouTube channel, Apologetics with Preston Perry, in order to engage the public in theological discourse. Preston and his wife Jackie reside in Atlanta with their four children: Eden, Autumn, Sage, and August.
John Burke, the New York Times bestselling author of Imagine Heaven and Imagine the God of Heaven, has researched more than 1,500 cases of near-death experiences and how they correlate with the Bible. As an international speaker and leading expert, John has addressed over 1 million people in 30 countries on topics of leadership, spiritual growth, and the exhilarating life to come. The Imagine Heaven Podcast with John Burke currently reaches over 80 countries.
Justin Brierley is a UK-based author, speaker, and broadcaster known for hosting dialogues between Christians and non-Christians. He is passionate about creating conversations around faith, science, theology, and culture. Through creative use of podcast, radio, print, video, and social media, he showcases an intellectually compelling case for Christianity while taking seriously the questions of sceptics.
Justin has worked in radio, podcast, and video for over two decades. He has hosted the Unbelievable? radio show and podcast as well as the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast. Justin was also editor of Premier Christianity magazine from 2014 to 2018. In 2023 he founded the production company Think Faith.
Justin is the author of The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God, a finalist in Christianity Today's 2024 Book of the Year awards. He is a cohost of the Re-Enchanting podcast and hosts the documentary podcast series The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God.
Justin has over 400k followers across social media. He is married to Lucy, a church minister in Surrey, England, and they have four children.
Alisa Childers is a wife, mom, author, and speaker. She was a member of the award-winning CCM recording group ZOEgirl. She is a popular speaker at apologetics and Christian worldview conferences. She is the author of Another Gospel? and Live Your Truth and Other Lies. Her work has been published by Gospel Coalition, Crosswalk, the Stream, For Every Mom, Decision Magazine, and the Christian Post.
Sean McDowell is an associate professor of Christian apologetics at Biola University. He is the bestselling author, editor, or coauthor of more than twenty books. He speaks internationally on issues related to culture, apologetics, and Gen Z. He is the cohost of the Think Biblically podcast and has a popular YouTube channel. Sean and his wife Stephanie have two children and live in California.
Thom S. Rainer is founder and CEO of Church Answers. With forty years of ministry experience, Thom has spent a lifetime committed to the growth and health of the local church and its leaders. Prior to founding Church Answers, Thom served as president and CEO of Lifeway Christian Resources and as founding dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism, and Ministry.
He has authored more than forty books and lives in Franklin, Tennessee, with his wife, Nellie Jo.
Scot McKnight is professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary and a recognized authority on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus. He is the author of more than ninety books, including The Jesus Creed, A Church Called Tov, The King Jesus Gospel, A Fellowship of Differents, The Blue Parakeet, and Kingdom Conspiracy.
He maintains an active Substack newsletter and lives with his wife, Kristen, in the northwest suburbs of Chicago.
Alister McGrath is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. He is also Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College and President of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. Dr. McGrath is the bestselling author of more than fifty books and is a popular international speaker.
Kyle Idleman is a bestselling author and the senior pastor at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of Not a Fan, One at a Time, The End of Me, Gods at War, Grace Is Greater, and Don't Give Up. Kyle and his wife, DesiRae, have four children.
Michael J. Kruger (PhD, Edinburgh) is the Samuel C. Patterson Chancellor's Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Reformed Theological Seminary and one of the leading scholars today on the origins and development of the New Testament canon. He is an award-winning author of more than fourteen books, most recently Miniature Codices in Early Christianity (Oxford). Beyond his work at Reformed Theological Seminary, Dr. Kruger has served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society (2019), the largest society of evangelical scholars in the world, where he was also the cofounder of the New Testament Canon, Textual Criticism, and Apocryphal Literature study section. In addition, he has served on the editorial board of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Bulletin for Biblical Research. He is also a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Institute for Biblical Research, the American Academy of Religion, and the Society for New Testament Studies (Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas). During his 2009–2010 research sabbatical, he was a visiting scholar at St. Edmund's College and Tyndale House at Cambridge University, England. Recently he was selected to be one of the inaugural fellows for the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics.
Melissa Kruger serves as vice president of discipleship programming for The Gospel Coalition (TGC). She is the author of multiple books, including The Envy of Eve: Finding Contentment in a Covetous World and Growing Together: Taking Mentoring Beyond Small Talk and Prayer Requests, as well as children's titles such as Lucy and the Saturday Surprise, His Grace Is Enough, and Wherever You Go, I Want You to Know. Her recent works include Parenting with Hope: Raising Teens for Christ in a Secular Age and The Good News Family Devotional: 52 Weeks Through the Gospel of Mark. She also cohosts The Deep Dish podcast, where she combines her love of pizza with her passion for meaningful conversation. She and her husband, Mike, have three adult children.
Christian Mungai is a native Kenyan who serves as the Global Movement Pastor at Mariners Church in Irvine, California. He is passionate about mobilizing the global church and currently leads the Global Convene initiative.
He previously performed with the Afro-fusion group Milele and holds degrees from BAMU University in India and Claremont School of Theology. He lives with his wife, Delta, and their daughter, Kabi.
Jacob Coyne is a Christian author, preacher, and founder of Stay Here, a global suicide prevention movement. He is a leading voice in faith-based mental health advocacy and equips churches and individuals with suicide prevention resources.
He is also the founder of Bible Collective and author of Stay Here and The Secret Life of Christians. Jacob lives in Johnson City, Tennessee, with his wife Mariah and their five children.
