Contributor
Andi Ashworth
A native Californian, Andi Ashworth has lived in Nashville, Tennessee with her family since 1989. Andi is a writer (author of Real Love for Real Life: The Art and Work of Caring), gardener, cook, lover of good books, and has recently finished her Master of Arts in Theological Studies. She, along with her musical husband, Charlie Peacock (Ashworth), are the Co-Founders/Executive Directors of Art House America, with branches in Nashville and Dallas, Texas. The Art House America mission is to contribute to the making of artists and artful people who become highly imaginative and creative culture-makers, who continue to mature spiritually, love well, and make the kingdom of God visible.
Andi and Charlie’s home, the Art House, is a 100-year-old renovated country church. It provides the setting for their work, which includes owning and operating a recording studio and award-winning music/film production and publishing companies. Andi is the key architect of the nurturing environment so characteristic of the Art House and its hospitality.
The Ashworths have two grown children and two grandchildren. Andi is a regular contributor to Comment Magazine and the blog at arthouseamerica.com.
Contributor
Chad Barlow
Chad Barlow works as the study assistant for John Yates, Rector of The Falls Church. Additionally, Chad is working on a ‘college sending ministry’ at The Falls Church: his goal is to equip young people to transition successfully out of high school and into academia/vocation in their early twenties.
Chad graduated in 2007 from Davidson College, where he studied Religion. After graduation, Chad attended Swiss L’Abri as a student, and in keeping with his ambition only to live in the most beautiful places on the planet, he then moved to Colorado. There, Chad helped to start an educational non-profit called Axis, which held worldview workshops for high school students around the country. Chad worked as a speaker and researcher for Axis for two years; then he accepted a fellowship to live and study at the Trinity Forum Academy for 2009-2010. Chad joined The Falls Church in June 2010.
Senior Fellow
Ray Blunt
Mr. Ray Blunt is a Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation & Culture in Falls Church, VA, and was previously the Adjunct Professor for Leadership and Business Ethics at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. An Air Force Academy graduate, he has a Master’s in Economics from Central Missouri University is completing a Masters in Theological Studies at Wesley Seminary. A 35-year Senior Executive, he focuses on helping to grow the next generation of servant leaders as a teacher, mentor, writer, and consultant,. He is the author of Developing Leadership: Growing the Next Generation of Public Service Leaders and contributed a chapter to The Jossey-Bass Reader on Non Profit and Public Leadership. His book, Crossed Lives – Crossed Purposes: Why Thomas Jefferson Failed and William Wilberforce Succeeded to Lead an End to Slavery will be published by Wipf & Stock in the spring of 2012. Ray is an avid kayaker, cyclist, birder, and dog walker, and B.J.’s husband of 47 years. They have two grown children, and are grandparents of one Ad Fontes graduate—Rachel Luckenbaugh, at Christopher Newport University–and four current students at AFA: Joshua (10th) and Jacob (K) Luckenbaugh; Carissa (6th) and Audrey Blunt (4th).
Contributor
Allison Clausen
Allison Moller Clausen serves as the area director for the DC region of FOCUS, a parachurch ministry serving in independent schools. Raised in the area, Allison became a Christian through FOCUS as a teenager and also met her husband through the ministry. Together with her husband and their son, she lives on Capitol Hill. Previously, she worked at a residential shelter for families experiencing homelessness and ran a mentoring program for children in Southeast DC.
Senior Fellow
Anne Cregger
Anne Taylor Cregger currently serves on the US Navigator staff, Metro Mission. She spends part of her time as Human Performance Director in a consulting firm inAlexandria,Virginia. She brings over 25 years of experience in leadership training and formal mentoring programs and provides tactical direction to the work of federal and corporate organizations to transform their cultures into ones based increasingly on trust, collaboration and knowledge sharing. As Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute Anne works to strengthen awareness of how our faith informs our vocation which molds our culture. Ms. Cregger was the founding Director of the Falls Church Fellows Program, an internship program designed to serve recent college graduates desiring to deepen their alignment with God’s purposes in all parts of their lives, including the marketplace, their faith communities, academic work and personal relationships. She maintains a deep interest in advancing the gospel through better communication skills and coaching groups and individuals to best grasp how their unique gifts and experiences might further God’s kingdom.
Ms. Cregger earned her BS in Mathematics at the University of Richmondand MS in Organization Development and Knowledge Management atGeorgeMasonUniversity.
She lives inArlington,Virginiawith her husband, George Patterson, and has four grown sons.
Contributor
Margie Haack
Margie Haack and her husband, Denis, are co-directors of a ministry, Ransom Fellowship, which helps Christians engage postmodern culture, and challenges them to live in ways that are both authentic to the Christian faith and winsome in its expression. This work includes writing and speaking about any topic from movies to tattooing in light of biblical faith.
The practice of hospitality has been central to their lives. They like to invite people into conversation, through their writing, their home, lives, giving unhurried time and a safe place where one can talk about anything, maybe eat some of Margie’s great chicken enchiladas and then take a nap.
Margie is editor of a quarterly newsletter, Notes From Toad Hall, where she writes about being faithful in the ordinary and the everyday. She has a completed manuscript currently being shopped—Through Devil’s Gap—a memoir of growing up in an impoverished farm family in northern Minnesota, and of coming to faith. Margie has three children and seven grandchildren, and thinks the final count may not be in yet.
Contributor
Jeff Keuss
Professor of Christian Ministry
B.A., Seattle Pacific University, 1987; M.Div., Fuller Theological Seminary, 1995; Ph.D., University of Glasgow, 2000. At Seattle Pacific University since 2005.
Prior to coming to SPU in 2005, Jeffrey Keuss was lecturer of practical theology and ethics and director for the Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology in the Faculty of Arts and Divinity at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. In addition to his work at SPU, he continues to teach as visiting professor of practical theology at Fuller Theological Seminary Northwest and is a regular contributor to The Kindlings Muse monthly podcast on Theology and Culture.
Dr. Keuss has published articles, chapters, and reviews on the interdisciplinary engagement of theology, ministry, and contemporary culture and is on the editorial board for the journal Literature and Theology (Oxford University Press). His books include Freedom of the Self: Kenosis, Cultural Identity and Mission at the Crossroads; A Poetics of Jesus: The search for Christ through writing in the nineteenth century; and The Sacred and the Profane: Contemporary Issues in Hermeneutics. He also has two chapters in Cinema Divinite addressing the role of film studies in theological reflection and completed a book on theology and pop music titled Your Neighbor’s Hymnal: What Popular Music Teaches Us About Faith, Hope, and Love (Cascade Books, 2011).
Contributor
David Naugle
Dr. David K. Naugle is chair and professor of philosophy at Dallas Baptist University where he has worked for twenty years in both administrative and academic capacities. He earned a Th.D. in systematic theology, and a Ph.D. in humanities with concentrations in philosophy and English literature.
He is also the director of the Paideia College Society (formerly the Pew College Society), an academic organization now internally funded by Dallas Baptist University.
Dr. Naugle also established and directs a weekly lecture series at DBU called the “Friday Symposium,” he occasionally teaches a “Summer Institute for Christian Scholarship,” a ten-week faculty development program for Dallas Baptist University professors, and he organized and leads a reading and discussion group on campus for DBU faculty called “The Outrageous Christian Scholars Society.”
Dr. Naugle serves as a “Fellow” for the Wilberforce Forum, the Christian worldview think tank sponsored by Prison Fellowship near Washington, D. C. He is also on the advisory board of the International Institute of Christian Studies. He is on the editorial board of the journal Integrite, and also serves on the board of the Capstone Academy, a Chinese educational initiative.
Dr. Naugle is the author of Worldview: The History of a Concept (Eerdmans 2002). His book was selected by Christianity Today magazine as the 2003 book of the year in the theology and ethics category.
Dr. Naugle is an avid golfer, gardener, guitarist and drummer. He and his wife Deemie, who is the Associate Provost at DBU, and their dog “Kuyper” live in Duncanville, Texas, a Dallas suburb. Daughter Courtney, a DBU alumna, works for KSCS, 96.3 radio station as a promotions coordinator.
Contributor
Mark Roberts
The Rev. Dr. Mark D. Roberts is a pastor, author, retreat leader, speaker, and blogger. Since October 2007 he has been the Senior Director and Scholar-in-Residence for Laity Lodge, a multifacted ministry in the Hill Country of Texas. Before then, he was for sixteen years the Senior Pastor of Irvine Presbyterian Church in Irvine, California (a city in Orange County about forty miles south of Los Angeles). Prior to coming to Irvine, Mark served on the staff of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood as Associate Pastor of Education. (Thanks to Janel Pahl for taking the photo to the right.)
Mark studied at Harvard University, receiving a B.A. in Philosophy, an M.A. in the Study of Religion, and a Ph.D. in New Testament and Christian Origins. He has taught classes in New Testament for Fuller Theological Seminary and San Francisco Theological Seminary.
Mark has written several books, including No Holds Barred: Wrestling with God in Prayer (WaterBrook, 2005), Dare to Be True (WaterBrook, 2003), Jesus Revealed (WaterBrook, 2002), After “I Believe” (Baker, 2002), and Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther (Word, 1993). His most recent book is Can We Trust the Gospels? Investigating the Reliability of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (Crossway, 2007).
Mark writes a devotional for The High Calling of Our Daily Work, a website associated with Laity Lodge. His “Daily Reflections” can be viewed online or sent as a daily email.
Mark serves on the editorial board of Worship Leader magazine, where he publishes articles and reviews, including his regular column “Lyrical Poetry.” Additionally, he has published dozens of articles in leading magazines and journals. He often speaks for churches and other Christian groups, and has been interviewed on over seventy-five radio programs nationwide.
Mark is married to Linda, who is a Marriage and Family Therapist, a Spiritual Director, and a retreat speaker. They have two children, Nathan and Kara.
Contributor
John Terrill
John Terrill is the first full-time Director for the Center for Integrity in Business at the School of Business and Economics (SBE) at Seattle Pacific University. Prior to joining SBE, John served as the National Director for Professional Schools Ministries with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (Madison, Wisconsin). Prior to this role, John served with InterVarsity in the Boston area working with students and faculty at Harvard Business School, as well as serving as InterVarsity’s National Director for MBA Ministry. In addition to overseeing the development of all professional schools ministries — which includes business, law, healthcare, religious & theological studies, government, education, social work, journalism, and the arts — John has also led numerous vocational missions and consulting projects to Southeast Asia and the Central African Republic. He co-directed the Open for Business (business-as-mission) Conference at the Urbana 06 Missions Convention, as well as served as the Associate Director for InterVarsity Graduate & Faculty Ministries Following Christ 2008 Conference.
Before joining InterVarsity, John consulted with Hay Group, an international human resources consulting firm. John holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) and M.A.Th. and M.A.R. degrees in Theology and Religion, respectively, from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
John enjoys international travel, hiking, photography, sports, and issues related to the integration of faith and work and economic development.