Michael O’Donnell, Ph.D. is the author of the highly acclaimed, What a Son Needs from His Dad (Bethany House, 2018). He is a contributor to USA Today, Better Homes & Gardens, New Man, and Ebony-Jet magazines. He has also been featured on CNN Evening News, Associated Press, Cox News Service, CBS Interactive Business Network, and ABC's nationally syndicated radio program, The Best of... learn more

Michaela O’Donnell Long (PhD ’18) is cofounder and CEO of Long Winter Media, a branding and video production company, and is Senior Director for the De Pree Center for Leadership. She completed a PhD in Practical Theology at Fuller Seminary, focusing on practices that contribute to the formation of entrepreneurs, and also serves as an adjunct professor at Fuller. She is on the... learn more

Dr. David Olshine is professor and director of Youth Ministry, Family and Culture at Columbia International University in South Carolina. David has spoken to over 2.5 million people, has written 15 books, 35 plus articles and selected in 2015 as one of the recipients of Outstanding Teacher of the Year award. David is married to Rhonda and has two kids, Rachel and Andrew, a son-in-law... learn more

Naomi Cramer Overton is an expert on millennial families living out their meaning in ways that give them, and those they serve, life. Most importantly, she knows moms and she knows mission. Overton was the President and CEO of MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) International, where she led and learned from more than 250,000 millennial and Gen-X families. She also worked as a management consultant... learn more

Having written over 1200 songs in every genre since the age of 13, and being a worship leader since the age of 13, Kurtis truly understands the gift of music, and the potential for it’s impact on our world today. Some may recognize him as a top 50 finalist on American Idol’s fourth season. Kurtis has also appeared on the Fox Morning... learn more

James H. (Jim) Pence is a full-time speaker, singer, chalk artist, writer, and editor, living in North Texas. Jim turned to writing in 1988 as a helpful means of expression after the death of his baby daughter Michelle. Eight years later, Dallas Seminary's Kindred Spirit published "A Road Not Chosen," Jim's narrative account of his and his wife's experience. Jim's biggest book is the... learn more

Charles Person is one of two remaining original Freedom Riders of 1961. He became a Freedom Rider following his participation in the Atlanta Student Movement, a student-led successful effort to desegregate Atlanta restaurants and lunch counters. Person's activism put him in jail for 16 days-- 10 of them in solitary confinement. In May, 1961, thirteen Freedom Riders--7 Back, 6 White-- sought to travel from... learn more

Michael Phillips has been writing in the Christian marketplace since 1977. He is the author of over a hundred books, both fiction and non-fiction, including many bestsellers, with total sales over seven million books. He is known as one of the premier novelists of the Christian fiction boom of the 1980s, and as the man responsible for the renaissance of interest in Scotsman... learn more