Robert Wuthnow, Ph.D., teaches sociology of religion and cultural sociology, and currently serves as chair of the Department of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of over twenty-five books, including America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity and After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion (2007). He has also edited over ten books, including a new edition of the Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion.

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Leonard Sweet, Ph.D., is currently the E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at Drew Theological School (Madison, NJ), and Visiting Distinguished Professor at George Fox University (Portland, OR). He is the author of more than one hundred articles, 600 published sermons and thirty books, most recently The Gospel According to Starbucks (2007). Founder and President of SpiritVenture Ministries, Sweet is a frequent speaker and conversation partner at conferences both in the US and around the globe. In both 2006 and 2007 he was voted “One of the 50 Most Influential Christians in America”

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James Tucker, Ph. D., Chair for Excellence in Learning, and Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; also founder and chairman of the board of the Foundation for Leadership and Learning, a global network of resources for the advancement of leadership development. Jim has provided consultative and training services to hundreds of school systems—public, private, and parochial—in more than 40 states as well as Brazil, Canada, Japan, Lithuania, Norway, and the Virgin Islands.

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Julius Nam, Ph.D., associate professor of religion, Loma Linda University School of Religion. One of the most articulate, engaging and insightful young Adventist scholars today, Nam is active in the American Academy of Religion, Adventist Society for Religious Studies, and The Association of Seventh-day Adventist Historians. He has served as pastor in Korea and in the U.S., and currently teaches Adventist History and Theology. He was a principal in organizing the 2007 scholarly conference on the 50th anniversary of the publication of the book, Seventh-day Adventists Answer Questions on Doctrine.

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Kelly Monroe Kullberg. Kelly is the founder and director of project development of The Veritas Forum which she first organized at Harvard in 1992. She edited and co-authored the best-sellingFinding God at Harvard: Spiritual Journeys of Christian Thinkers (1996). A decade later she wroteFinding God Beyond Harvard (2006), and taught senior electives at Harvard College in film and C.S. Lewis while serving as a chaplain to the Harvard Graduate School Christian Fellowship from 1988-1997. Kelly lives with her husband David and children in Columbus, Ohio. She enjoys Ultimate Frisbee on beaches, football in the front yard, and skiing out West.

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Philip Jenkins is Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University. A graduate of Cambridge University, he has published widely (over 20 books) on contemporary religious phenomena, but is best known for the highly acclaimed The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity.

Rabbi Marcia Prager is Dean of the ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal Rabbinic Program and serves as rabbi of both the Philadelphia and Princeton P’nai Or Jewish Renewal Communities. Rabbi Marcia is the author of Path of Blessing, which has been called, “One of the best introductions to Jewish Renewal learning and practice.”

Jon Paulien is a renowned Adventist theologian, Professor of new Testament Interpretation, and incoming Dean of the Faculty of Religion at Loma Linda University. He is the author of several books, including: The Day That Changed The World, The Deep Things of God, and Everyday Faith.

Doug Pagitt is the pastor of Solomon’s Porch and owns businesses in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He enjoys finding creative, entrepreneurial, generative ways to join in the hopes, dreams and desires God has for the world. He is author of several books including, Church Re-Imagined, and Preaching Re-imagined.

Leland Kaiser, Founder and President, Kaiser Consulting
Dr. Kaiser is a health care futurist, an intuitive, an executive coach, a community organizer and an organizational consultant. He is a pioneer in many emerging areas of health care including tithing programs for community hospitals. He is a provocateur and mentor to many hospitals and health care systems in the United States. Dr. Kaiser has helped many organizations invent their preferred futures. He is an advocate of self-designing organizations, and self-designing communities.

Leanne Kaiser Carlson, Co-founder, The Kaiser Institute
Ms. Carlson is one of the most visible and influential futurists in the United States. Using her insights and artistic speaking style, she helps audiences see the potentials that often lie invisible, challenge limitation, and create fresh energy. She serves as an advisor to CEOs and philanthropists, and is on the faculty of the Spiritual Leadership Institute, and The Estes Park Institute, the nation’s premier organization equipping trustees, executives, and clinicians with the skills to navigate today’s complex environment. EPI educates approximately 3,000 healthcare leaders annually.

Kevin Kaiser, Co-founder, The Kaiser Institute
Mr. Kaiser is an influential force in the emerging field of applied intuition. He is doing groundbreaking work in the creation of intuitive organizations and is pioneering innovative learning environments that evoke people’s extraordinary intuitive gifts. He is the creator of the Kaiser Institute’s Program in Intuition, a nine-month fellowship for executives wanting to evoke their natural intuitive abilities. Kevin is in demand as an executive coach and as a speaker. He is known for his ability to inspire people to create paths of greater service, greater adventure, and greater bless!

James Londis, Director of Ethics and Corporate Integrity, Kettering Medical Center Network

Duane Covrig, Associate Professor, Dept. of Educational Foundations & Leadership, University of Akron

Ann Higdon. ISUS (Improved Solutions to Urban Systems) Trade and Technology Prep Community School, Dayton, Ohio -- an ungraded charter school whose core philosophy and mission is to help individuals become “transenders” or “people who rise above the odds.”