Contributors

Rev. Minna Bothwell is pastor of Capitol Hill Lutheran Church, Des Moines, Iowa.

Rev. Aaron Fuller is a pastor in the ELCA, serving Our Father’s Lutheran Church, Rockford, MN. He is also a Navy veteran of over 20 years serving as an officer in the Navy’s submarine force and currently, as a Chaplain in the Navy Reserve.

Kaitlyn Szabo is Finance and Operations Director at Exodus Lending in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Rev Kathryn Zurcher serves as pastor of St John Lutheran Church in Kailua on the island of O’ahu. She is Dean of the Hukilau Conference and serves as Chair of the Candidacy Committee for the Pacifica Synod. Kathryn is also treasurer of the Hawai’i Council of Churches and serves as a Pohai Nani Foundation Board…

Joy James lives in MN with her husband, their 2 kids, and a bichon poodle. She adores her family and loves spending her time with them. She grew up in churches, with her mom working in the church her entire childhood. Joy then worked in a church for 4 years herself. Fun fact: Her career…

The Rev. Ashley Goff is pastor of Arlington Presbyterian Church in Arlington, Virginaia. Before that, she was minister for spiritual formation at Church of the Pilgrims, a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregation in Washington, D.C. She is ordained in the United Church of Christ and received her M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary. She blogs at godofthesparrow.com.

Phil is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and formerly taught pastoral theology at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. Janet T. Jamieson is a CPA and formerly taught Accounting at the University of Dubuque in Iowa. They are also co-authors of the seminal finance text Ministry and Money: A Practical Guide for…

Jeanette has a passion to serve Executive Leaders in business by providing support for them to be successful in intentionally caring for their people. In her current role as Executive Director of Expansion with the employee care service, Marketplace Chaplains she travels the country educating and serving C-Suite leaders of public and private companies as…

Grant has served as a pastor in the ELCA for 30 years. He has served congregations in rural WI, Taiwan, Papau New Guinea and St. Paul MN. Grant works now as an organizing and congregational consultant, training in leadership development and vision implementation, often in the areas of climate justice, healthcare and housing and conflict…

Bethany Fox is the founding leader of Beloved Everybody Church in Los Angeles, a church for people with and without developmental and intellectual disabilities.

Marques Butler is an MDiv student at Luther Seminary.

Rayce Lamb is the Founder and Chief Imagination Officer of Faithonomics, a social impact venture that empowers faith-inspired social impact leaders to bring their bold ideas to life without sacrificing their personal or financial wellbeing in the process.

Pastor Amanda Simons is Director of Church Partnerships and Volunteerism at Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota.

Rev. Derek Kubilus is a United Methodist Elder serving in the East Ohio Conference. He hosts a podcast called “Cross Over Q” (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cross-over-q/id1551387779) that confronts the dangers of QAnon, while reaching out to Christians who have fallen down the rabbit hole of conspiracy. Derek is currently producing a second podcast on Hell and Christian Universalism…

Educator, scientist and community connector are three ways to describe Heidi M.S. Ferris. Heidi started Growing Green Hearts LLC in 2012 to creatively address climate change, sustainability, water quality, interconnectedness and nature play. In addition to authoring EnviroSTEM books and curriculum; she builds partnerships, trains teachers and lifts up youth leadership. Heidi holds an MA…