Christianity 21: Presenters

Alise Barrymore Concentric Circles of Christian compassion
Alise Barrymore is one of the founding pastors of The Emmaus Community, a non-denominational community of faith in the suburbs of Chicago. She graduated from Yale University and McCormick Theological Seminary and is currently a DMin, candidate. One of her greatest joys is having completed the Chicago Marathon in 2008.
Diana Butler Bass the past takes us forward
Diana is an independent scholar and author of seven books on American religion, including her new "A People's History of Christianity." She holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Duke and has taught at both undergraduate and graduate levels. A popular speaker and public teacher, she has many media credits including appearance on CNN, FOX, and PBS.
Seth Donovan Confession: a relief from righteousness
Seth is sitting in a coffee shop in Denver, CO presently wondering how she's going to come out to her queer friends about the fact that she is presenting at a "christian" conference in October. Other things she's thinking about today: how she's tired of deriving identity from the two dozen social justice organizations she works with/for; why her 362nd attempt to leave "the church" in the last decade of her life has failed again; and how she's going to weave that new cello part into the song her band is working on. She hopes to have that all figured out by the time she gets home tonight to 3 housemates, 2 cats, 1 tarantula, and her homeslice.
Lisa Domke No More Us and Them
Rev. Lisa Domke is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and is involved with a number of faith-based and community action groups dedicated to pursuing justice, promoting human rights, and protecting the environment. In recent years, Lisa has focused on helping people of faith find ways to engage and speak in the public and political arena, and on building bridges ecumenically and in the interfaith/interspirituality realm. Lisa serves on the board of the Church Council of Greater Seattle and facilitates meetings of the Emergent Village Cohort for Seattle/Tacoma.
Mimi Haddad Treating Women Jesus-Style!
Mimi is president of Christians for Biblical Equality (www.cbeinternational.org), and holds a Ph.D. in Historical Theology. She was an editor and a contributing author of Global Voices in Biblical Equality: Women and Men Ministering Together in the Church around the World, and has contributed to seven other books. She is an Adjunct Professor at North Park Theological Seminary, Chicago, IL, and lives in a mixed-income housing development committed to growing greater financial stability in the inner city.
Sally Morganthaler Blur: The Cultural Disappearance of Dualism
Known best for her book, Worship Evangelism, Sally Morgenthaler teaches at seminaries and conferences across North America. Her focus has shifted from worship to following Christ outside the building, and the radical contextualization required in the post-Christendom shift.
Danielle Shroyer The Boundary Breaking God of Hope and Promise
Danielle Shroyer is the Pastor of Journey Church in Dallas (www.journeydallas.com). She is the author of the forthcoming "The Boundary Breaking God: An Unfolding Story of Hope and Promise" (Jossey-Bass, October 2009). Danielle is a graduate of Baylor University and Princeton Theological Seminary. She and her husband Dan have two children.
Debbie Blue Jesus' Body is Hot Again
Debbie Blue is one of the founding pastors of House of Mercy, a church in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of Sensual Orthodoxy (Cathedral Hill Press, 2003) and From Stone to Living Word: Letting the Bible Live Again (Brazos Press, 2008). Her essays, sermons, and reflections on the scripture have appeared in Life in Body, Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross, The Image Journal, Geez, and The Christian Century.
Alyce McKenzie Save Your Receipt Right Now!
Alyce McKenzie is a United Methodist pastor, preacher, storyteller, and biblical scholar who is obsessed with thinking about, writing about, talking about, and attempting to live by the Bible's wisdom. She teaches preaching at Perkins School of Theology, SMU, frequently escaping from the classroom to interact with wisdom seeking people in workshops all around the country. In her search for wisdom, she has never met a dessert she didn't like.
Sybil MacBeth Praying in Color--Doodling Redefined
Sybil is a dancer, doodler, and former community college math professor. With a short attention span and a restless body, she explores prayer forms for different learning styles.
Shauna Niequist Your Story Must Be told
Shauna Niequist is the author of Cold Tangerines, a collection of essays about celebrating everyday life. She has worked at Willow Creek outside Chicago and Mars Hill in Grand Rapids. She lives outside Chicago with her husband Aaron and their son Henry, and is at work on another book.
Elaine Heath Missional, emergent, monastic, methodist, newday
I am the McCreless Asst. Professor of Evangelism at Southern Methodist University and the instigator of The People of New Day, a network of micro-communities of prayer and action in the United Methodist tradition. I wrote The Mystic Way of Evangelism (2008) and Naked Faith (2009).
Denise VanEck New Tribalism
For more than fifteen years, Denise has been a speaker, trainer, pastor and consultant to churches and non-profits, specializing in organizational culture and leadership. Denise is mother to four, grandmother to three and hangs with a tribe called HNL.
Jenell Paris Coming Out of All Closets
Jenell Williams Paris is professor of anthropology at Messiah College in Grantham, PA. She and her husband, James, are raising three boys.
Phyllis Tickle A Rummage Sale Every 500 Years
Phyllis Tickle is a sociologist of religion, an analytic observer and recorder of the Great Emergence in North America, and an active practitioner of Anglimergent Christianity.
Jeanne Stevens HUMBITIOUS - Women & Ambition, Power, Humility
Jeanne Stevens has been working in ministry for the past 15 years. She is a leader, author, speaker, and new church planter. Jeanne has been married to Jarrett Stevens for 13 years. They live in Atlanta, GA with their 2 kids Elijah & Gigi.
Lauren Winner Writing Saves My Life
Lauren F. Winner is the author of three books, Girl Meets God, Mudhouse Sabbath, and Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity. She has appeared on PBS's Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and has written for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, Books and Culture, and Christianity Today. Winner has degrees from Duke, Columbia, and Cambridge universities, and holds a Ph.D. in history. The former book editor for Beliefnet, Lauren teaches at Duke Divinity School, and lives in Durham, North Carolina.
Nanette Sawyer Jesus Is Not Only Anything
Nanette is the organizing pastor of Wicker Park Grace, a faith community that meets in an art gallery in Chicago. She also serves on the Interfaith Relations Commission of the National Council of Churches of Christ.
Carla Barnhill Theology of the open hand
Carla Barnhill is an editor, a writer, a mother a wife, a friend, a daughter, a preacher, a teacher, a lover and a fighter. She is a rock, she is an island. She is better at some of these than others.
Kelly Bean The Power of Small....
Kelly Bean is Coordinator of Convergence; a network for emerging women leaders. Kelly pastors an organic faith community called Third Saturday which she has cultivated for over 20 years. Kelly cares about social justice, good food, art and ritual, Africa, community, always learning, her family and...
Julie Clawson Seeking Justice in the Everyday.
Julie Clawson (M.A, Intercultural Studies, Wheaton College Graduate School)is a mother, writer, blogger and moderator of the Emerging Women and Emerging Parents blogs. She formerly served as a church planter and co-pastor of Via Christus Community Church in Yorkville, Illinois and currently lives in Austin, Texas. She is the author of Everyday Justice (IVP, 2009).
Makeesha Fisher Doubt is the New Faith.
Makeesha grew up in Pentecostal Evangelicalism of the Word of Faith variety in places like North Dakota and Montana. As an adult, she embarked on a frustrating, exasperating and wondrous journey of faith and now finds herself somewhere she never thought she'd be. She is the co-leader of Revolution in Fort Collins, CO and is the "north of Denver" Emergent Village Cohort contact.
Nadia Bolz-Weber Authority; Authenticity and A-holes
Nadia Bolz-Weber is an ordained Lutheran pastor and the mission developer for House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver Colorado. Once you get past her sleeves (tattoos) you'll soon realize she's not nearly as cool as she looks. Nadia is the author of Salvation on the Small Screen; 24 Hours of Christian Television and blogs at sarcasticlutheran.com