Resource Authors

Dan Roloff, known as "Ramblin' Dan," was a central figure at Laity Lodge and the H. E. Butt Foundation Camp from the 1980s until his retirement in 2018. Beginning as a participant in 1982, he became Associate Director after persistent efforts and contributed extensively to program innovation, mentoring, and outdoor...

Linda Roorda is a mother and grandmother, retired hospital medical/radiology transcriptionist, retired worship music leader, member of The Dry Bones band, an empty-nest author, past speaker at a multi-church women's retreat, now substitute teacher in local school system. She published some of her ancestral genealogy research in the "New York...

Rev. Kara K. Root is the author of The Deepest Belonging (2021), Receiving This Life: (2023), and A Pilgrimage Into Letting Go (2025, with husband, Andy). ​Pastor of Lake Nokomis Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis, MN, a Christian community that shapes its life around worship, hospitality and Sabbath rest, she is a trained Spiritual Director and Certified Educator in the PCUSA. 
She has...

Andrew Root, PhD (Princeton Theological Seminary) is the Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary. He is most recently the author of Evangelism in an Age of Despair and the six volume Ministry in a Secular Age series (including Churches and the Crisis of Decline, The Congregation in a...