Anne M. Blankenship (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota. Her research investigates religious responses to injustice and relationships between national, racial, and religious identities. Her book Christianity, Social Justice, and the Japanese American Incarceration during World War II (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) reveals how the injustice of this incarceration transformed Asian-American Christianity and challenged religious and racial boundaries in liberal American Christianity. Her current project examines religious responses to the mass immigration to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century.
Douglas A. Campbell (Ph.D., University of Toronto) is Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina. His main research interest is the life and theology of the apostle Paul. He is interested in applying interdisciplinary approaches from ancient to modern, including sociological conflict-resolution theory. His publications include An Apostle’s Journey (Eerdmans, 2018), Framing Paul: An Epistolary Biography (Eerdmans, 2014), The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul (Eerdmans, 2009), The Quest for Paul’s Gospel: A Suggested Strategy (T & T Clark, 2005), and a collection of essays, Beyond Old and New Perspectives on Paul: Reflections on the Work of Douglas Campbell, ed. Chris Tilling (Wipf & Stock, 2014).
Bob Ekblad (Th.D., Institut Protestant de Théologie, Montpellier, France) is founder and General Director of Tierra Nueva and the People’s Seminary in Burlington, Washington. He is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and as core lecturer in Missiology and Old Testament at Westminster Theological Centre in the UK. His interests in holistic ministry and biblical interpretation at the margins and prison ministry are reflected in his books: Reading the Bible with the Damned (Westminster John Knox, 1995); A New Christian Manifesto: Pledging Allegiance to the Kingdom of God (Westminster John Knox, 2005); The Beautiful Gate: Enter Jesus’ Global Liberation Movement (The People’s Seminary Press, 2017); and Guerrilla Bible Study: Preparing and Facilitating Revolutionary Encounters (forthcoming). He is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Ford Rowan (J.D., Georgetown University, D.P.A., University of Southern California) is a founder and counselor of the International Dialogue Initiative, Annapolis, Maryland, which seeks to overcome the psychological barriers to peace in the Middle East. He has been a volunteer in the Kairos Prison Ministry program for nearly twenty years and helped launch the Street Reentry Program of Maryland. He was Professorial Lecturer in Organizational Sciences at George Washington University for twelve years, where he taught conflict resolution and negotiation. In his first career as a journalist, Rowan was a correspondent for NBC News. He covered the war in Lebanon in 1978, the Watergate trials, and the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. He was also a panelist on Meet the Press and hosted the weekly PBS program International Edition. In his second career as an attorney, he advised on alleged corporate financial fraud, food safety, pharmaceuticals, environmental crimes, international trade disputes, and 9/11. He is licensed as a preacher in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.
Matthew L. Skinner (Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary) is Professor of New Testament at Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His research focuses on sociopolitical dimensions of the New Testament world and the ongoing theological resonance of the biblical witnesses. Recent books include A Companion to the New Testament (3 vols.; Baylor University Press, 2017–2018) and Intrusive God, Disruptive Gospel: Encountering the Divine in the Book of Acts (Brazos, 2015). He has contributed to a number of published resources for pastors, teachers, and students, and he is a co-host of the Sermon Brainwave podcast produced by WorkingPreacher.org. He is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
