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Rev. David Swanson is an author, pastor, and community leader based on Chicago's South Side. He is the founding pastor of New Community Covenant Church and CEO of New Community Outreach, a nonprofit addressing community trauma through restorative practices. He has written Rediscipling the White Church and Plundered, exploring racial, environmental,...

Dr. Douglas A. Sweeney is Dean and Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School. An evangelical Lutheran, he has taught at institutions including Yale Divinity School, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and the University of Heidelberg. Sweeney has authored or edited over 20 books on Christian doctrine, early modern Protestantism, American...

Leonard Sweet is a preacher, teacher, historical theologian, and theo-semiotician. Author of more than seventy books and 1500+ published sermons, Leonard Sweet's recent publications include groundbreaking textbooks on preaching (Giving Blood), evangelism (Nudge), ecclesiology (So Beautiful), discipleship (I Am A Follower), and eschatology (Telos—with Len Wilson). Len and co-author Lisa...

Dr. Kristin Swenson is a writer, scholar, and former professor of religious studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a graduate of St. Olaf College and Boston University. Her publications include A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible (Oxford, 2021), God of Earth: Discovering a Radically Ecological Christianity,  Bible...

Rev. Warren Thomas Swenson is a priest in the Diocese of West Missouri (Kansas City). An avid preacher and teacher of the Gospel, Warren lives in Tennessee and serves as an associate priest in Southeast Tennessee Episcopal Ministry (STEM). He is currently the Associate Director of the University of the...

Rev. Charles Rozell Swindoll is an evangelical Christian pastor, author, educator, and radio preacher. He founded Insight for Living, headquartered in Frisco, TX, which airs a radio program of the same name on more than 2,000 stations around the world in 15 languages. He was the founding pastor at Stonebriar Community Church, in Frisco, TX, and...

Colleen Swindoll Thompson recently served as Vice President of Reframing Ministries at Insight for Living Ministries, where she spoke, wrote, and counseling those affected by disability. She is a graduate of Trinity International University as well as minors in psychology and education. (Source: insight.org)

Rev. Dr. John Swinton, FBA, FRSE, is a Scottish theologian, ordained minister of the Church of Scotland, and Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen, where he also founded the Centre for Spirituality, Health and Disability. He holds additional roles as consulting faculty at Duke Divinity...

Rev. Dr. A. J. Swoboda is the associate professor of Bible and Theology at Bushnell University. He served as a college pastor on the University of Oregon campus for nearly ten years. For another decade, he planted and pastored an urban church in Portland, OR, called Theophilus. He leads a...