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Lance Bacon is an ordained bishop in the Church of God who has served sixteen years as a senior pastor. He currently serves in that role at Greater Discipleship Center in Hampton, Virginia. He earned his Master of Divinity from the Regent University School of Divinity in 2016 and is in the PhD dissertation phase at that school. He delights in his role as an adjunct professor of Christian Ministry, Christian Ethics, and Christian History/Thought at the Regent University College of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of The Scariest Word in the Bible.

David M. Barbee, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Christian Thought at Winebrenner Theological Seminary in Findlay, Ohio. His academic research focuses primarily on late medieval scholasticism and early modern Protestantism. He earned his PhD in Religious Studies with a focus in the History of Christianity from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Mark J. Cartledge, PhD, FRSA, is Principal of the London School of Theology and was previously Professor of Practical Theology and Director of the Center for Renewal Studies at Regent University School of Divinity. He is a priest in the Church of England and a practical theologian who also works in the field of constructive theology. His current research interest lies at the intersection of pneumatology, ecclesiology, and public life. He has studied Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity for many years.

Mara Lief Crabtree, DMin, is an Associate Professor at the Regent University School of Divinity, Virginia Beach, Virginia, where she teaches in the areas of Christian Spirituality and Spiritual Formation. She completed her doctoral studies immersion experience in Poland, visiting and studying the Holocaust areas of Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, and others. Mara holds ordination with the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches. She served for over twenty years as a Chaplain for the International Order of St. Luke the Physician (OSL), an ecumenical religious order. She currently serves as Region 2 Representative for OSL Chapters in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Jan Drayer became a believer in August of 1984 in Taos, New Mexico, and married Leslie Alexander in December that year. He earned the BS in Bible, focusing on World Missions, in 1991 from the University of Valley Forge in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He and his family then moved to the Philippines, where they served as missionaries for sixteen years. They returned to the U.S., where in 2008 Jan became the senior pastor of Community Gospel Church in Pasadena, Maryland, affiliated with Elim Fellowship (with which he holds ordination). He earned the MTS from the Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in 2013. He is an MPhil/PhD student at the London School of Theology under the supervision of Dr. Graham McFarlane. His research focus is toward a pneumatological rendering of James Davison Hunter’s “faithful presence” model.

Barbara Elkjer is an Assemblies of God minister who served for eight years at First Assembly of God in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She is a PhD candidate at the Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Virginia, writing on the role of prophecy in the eschatological mission of the Church, and teaching hermeneutics and theology in a local Assemblies of God School of Ministry. She and her husband have four grown children and five grandchildren—and counting!

Daniel Gilbert, PhD, a Presbyterian minister, has ministered the Spirit-empowered Gospel for over thirty-five years in church, para-church, mission, and higher education venues. He is Director of Master’s Programs and an Assistant Professor at the Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is the founder of EmPowered Living International Ministries, a teaching and humanitarian ministry, and the founder and President of ELIM Theological Institute, a Bible school in Kenya training village pastors in sound theology and humanitarian action, accomplished in the power of the Holy Spirit. He is the author of The Big 5: Discovering the Five Foundations Every Christian Should Know, with a foreword by Dr. M. G. “Pat” Robertson. He earned the PhD in Theology from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland; the MDiv from the Regent University School of Divinity; and the BS in Business Administration from Mars Hill University in North Carolina. He and his wife, Mary Beth, share a happy marriage of thirty-four years and a lovely daughter, Maria.

James M. Henderson, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies and Christian Ministry at Regent University’s College of Arts and Sciences in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is also an Ordained Minister with the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. His work focuses on justification, divine election, and the work of the Holy Spirit in the world.

Mark A. Jumper, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Director of Chaplaincy and Military Affairs at the Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Virginia. A third-generation Presbyterian minister, he is ordained by the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, which he has served as Endorser for Chaplains and as moderator of two presbyteries. He is a retired Navy chaplain whose service included the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Coast Guard at sea, on land, and in the air, in peace, war, and storm. He earned the PhD in Humanities from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island; the MDiv from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia; and the BA in History from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a contributor to several edited collections. He and his wife, Ginger, are parents of seven children.

Don Kammer is a Theology PhD student at the Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Virginia, concentrating in the History of Global Christianity. He is a retired United States Army chaplain and combat veteran. He is endorsed by the Assemblies of God as an institutional chaplain and serves in the Washington, DC area. He earned the MDiv from Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in Springfield, Missouri, with emphasis on Theological Studies and Pastoral Counseling, in 1989. He earned the MA in History from Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, in 1990; and the MA in American Studies at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia in 2005. Don became interested in Christianity through an encounter with the Invisible Church, a charismatic Jesus Movement community that existed fleetingly in London, the United Kingdom in the 1970s and 80s. He was then a young atheist soldier stationed in West Berlin, West Germany, who encountered God while on leave in London.

Samuel W. Muindi, PhD, is a Lecturer in Biblical and Theological Studies at International Leadership University in Nairobi, Kenya. His areas of teaching and research interest include Old Testament Biblical Studies, Biblical Hermeneutics, Pentecostal Studies, and African Christian Spirituality. His recent publications include: Pentecostal-Charismatic Prophecy: Empirical-Theological Analysis (Oxford: Lang, 2107); “Ritual and Spirituality in Kenyan Pentecostalism,” in Scripting Pentecostalism: A Study of Pentecostals, Worship and Liturgy (ed. M. Cartledge and A. J. Swoboda; London: Routledge, 2017); and Ancient Israelite and African Wisdom Traditions: A Comparative-Hermeneutical Analysis (Nairobi: Christian Academic Publishing, 2015). He earned the PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK. He and his wife, Jane, live in Nairobi, Kenya. They are blessed with four children and four grandchildren and are actively involved in church ministry, particularly among the African Initiated Pentecostal-Charismatic churches.

Michael M. C. Reardon is a PhD student in New Testament and Historical Theology at Wycliffe College of the University of Toronto, Canada. His research explores the role of deification in New Testament soteriology and its reception by Medieval and Early Modern thinkers. He is currently the Professor of Biblical Languages and Christian Thought at Canada Christian College in Toronto. His other research interests include German idealism, Pietism, hermeneutic methodology, and Sino-Christian theology. Outside of academia, Michael enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, playing basketball, and serving in his local church.

Andrew Snyder is a PhD candidate in Theological Studies at the Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and is writing his dissertation on the qualitative distinction between Kierkegaard’s concepts of anxiety and despair. He earned the MA in Christian Thought from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, and lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, with his wife, Christabel.

Fitzroy John Willis, PhD, teaches Physical Science and Bible at Landmark Christian School in Fairburn, Georgia, and is the co-founder of The Willis Group, LLC, a consulting firm that supports individuals and organizations to fulfill their talent, learning, and developmental needs. He was previously an Adjunct Professor of Worldviews, Theology, Bible, and Biblical Interpretation at Ohio Christian University. He earned the PhD in Christian Theology from the Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he also earned an MA in Biblical Interpretation. He also earned the MS from SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn, and the BS in Biochemistry from SUNY Stony Brook, New York. He lives in Metro-Atlanta with his wife and five children.

Christopher J. Wilson holds the PhD in Renewal Studies with a concentration in ChristianTheology from the Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Virginia. His dissertation will be published as Renewal Apologetics: The Argument from Modern Miracles. His interests include the intersection of medical miracles and Christian prayer as a primary means of apologetics, evangelism, and renewal, developed from a comprehensive theology of the miraculous. He is married with four children, ages eight and down. He enjoys watching sports, playing chess, reading (apologetics, theology, and philosophy), and spending time with his family.