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Lynn Anderson - Lynn AndersonFor the twenty-five years Lynn has served as an adjunct professor at Abilene Christian University, teaching missions, ministry, and leadership courses. And through those years he has been called on increasingly by scores of minister and numerous churches—as they sought encouragement, resources, and counsel in the midst of the challenges of church leadership. Lynn Anderson is an author, well-known speaker, and founder of the San Antonio-based Hope Network Ministries, a ministry dedicated to coaching, mentoring and equipping church leaders. [http://www.mentornetwork.org/]


Rick Atchley - Rick AtchleyRick Atchley has served as the preaching minister for the Richland Hills Church of Christ in Fort Worth, Texas, since June, 1989. He has a BA in Oral Communications and a MA in Religious Communications from Abilene Christian University.
Rick is the author of three books: Sinai Summit: Meeting God With Our Character Crisis, Back to the Father: Crossing the Bridge of Forgiveness Without Burning it Behind You and What Men Need to Hear. Rick married Jamie Lyda, of San Antonio, on June 6, 1981 and they have two sons, Michael and Matthew, and one daughter, Morgan.


John Barton - John BartonJohn Barton teaches philosophy and religion at Rochester College in Rochester Hills, Michigan. He and his wife, Sara, have two children, Nate and Brynn. The Barton family lived and worked as part of a church planting mission team in Uganda, East Africa before moving to Michigan.




Sara Barton - Sara BartonSara Barton currently serves as Campus Minister for Rochester College in Rochester Hills, Michigan. She and her husband, John, have two children, Nate and Brynn. The Barton family lived and worked as part of a church planting mission team in Uganda, East Africa before moving to Michigan.




Allen Black - Allen BlackAllen Black is a graduate of Freed-Hardeman, Harding, Harding Graduate School, and Emory University. He is Professor of New Testament at Harding's Graduate School of Religion where he has been since 1983. He has written two commentaries for the College Press NIV New Testament Commentary series: one on the Gospel of Mark and one on 1 Peter. Allen also works for the Highland St. church in Memphis. Allen and his wife Nancy have two daughters: Amy and Stacey.


Jeff Berryman - Jeff BerrymanJeff writes of himself: "I taught Theatre at Abilene Christian University from 1990-1996, and moved to Seattle in May of that year. Since then, I have been writing and performing, mostly one-man shows. I've done a small amount of commercial work, though I am no longer actively pursuing it. By God's grace, along the way, I wrote a novel was published about a year ago, and Leaving Ruin continues to sell. I didn't really set out to do a novel, and yet ... here we are."


Carmen (Perry) Beaubeaux - Carmen Perry BeaubeauxCarmen Beaubeaux lives in Coronado, California, with her husband and son where she works in theatre, writes essays, plays and poetry and walks for miles and miles on the beach. They worship with the Canyon View Church of Christ. Favorite Faith & Film Flick: Children of Heaven, written and directed by Majid Majidi. Contact Carmen at [frequentarsi@yahoo.com]


Todd Bouldin - Todd BouldinTodd Bouldin lives in Los Angeles, California, is a member of the faculty at Pepperdine University and is the senior minister of the Camarillo Church of Christ. He is a licensed attorney, but his passion is the ministry of Jesus Christ through preaching and the equipping of our church for discipleship and ministry. He is an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University and has also lectured at universities: Abilene Christian University, Lipscomb University, UCLA, and UCSB. E-mail him at [Todd_Bouldin@yahoo.com].


Keith Brenton - Keith BrentonKeith Brenton serves as WebServant for New Wineskins. He describes himself at his blog [Blog In My Own Eye] as a "stumbling follower of Christ, husband, dad, writer, occasional Bible class teacher, currently serving as communications specialist at a large metro church. Someone who questions reality and won't settle for an evasive answer." He occasionally posts at [the New Wineskins blog]. You can reach him by e-mail at [webservant@wineskins.org].


Larry Bridgesmith - bridgesmithLarry Bridgesmith is a member of the law firm Waller, Lansden, Dortch, & Davis, PLLC. He is also a shepherd with the Family of God at Woodmont Hills and chairman of the Zoe Group, Inc. He is married to Linda (his true helpmeet and lifesaver), the father of Lara (the mother of Iris) and Lance (the father of Tess), with whom he practices law and seeks the wonder of God's adventure.


K. Rex Butts - K. Rex ButtsK. Rex Butts, M.Div, until recently served as Minister of the Kandiyohi Church of Christ, Kandiyohi, MN. He and his family recently completed a move to Brighton, CO, near Denver. He expresses a conviction that the Lord has been leading them - and continues to lead them. He blogs at [www.kingdomseeking.wordpress.com] and you can reach him at [k.rex.butts@gmail.com].


Tony Campolo - Tony CampologTony Campolo is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. He’s a frequent guest on television shows, including Larry King Live and Nightline, and is the author of twenty-nine books. As founder of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education, he has organized schools and universities in several Third World countries, and has developed ministries for “at risk” children in urban neighborhoods across North America. A sociologist, internationally renowned speaker to big business, social activist, Baptist minister, Campolo also served a spiritual advisor to President Bill Clinton.


Lee Camp - Lee CampLee Camp is professor of Christian Ethics at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. In addition to serving as faculty member in the College of Bible and Ministry, he is a Senior Faculty Fellow in the Center for International Peace and Justice at Lipscomb University. Lee has previously served as the pulpit minister for the Donelson Church of Christ in Nashville, and as youth minister for the Donmoyer Avenue Church of Christ in South Bend, Indiana. Lee is married to the former Laura Brumfield, also a Lipscomb graduate. They have three young sons: Chandler, David, and Ben.E-mail him at [lee.camp@lipscomb.edu].


Mike Cope - Mike CopeMike is partnered with Landon Saunders in the HeartBeat ministry. For many years, he was the preaching minister for the Highland Church of Christ in Abilene, Texas. He and his wife Diane have two sons, Matt and Chris; their daughter Megan perished at age nine. Chris survived an automobile accident, with serious injuries, in 2004. Mike has written a number of books, teaches Bible at Abilene Christian University. and is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer. He is one of the founding editors of Wineskins Magazine. [Mike Cope's Blog]


Ron Clark - Ron ClarkRon Clark, D. Min., leads a church plant - Agape Church - on the west side of Portland, Oregon. He has served as president of Portland’s Community Against Domestic Violence (CADV) and directs their ongoing Clergy Abuse Workshop training program. He has led training seminars on relationship abuse for ministers, law enforcement organizations, and faith communities. He has recently been appointed to the Oregon Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task force to represent faith communities. Ron earned his undergraduate degrees from Central Missouri State University and his Masters of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Harding University Graduate School of Religion. He is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and has published articles on as abuse, theology, ministry, Hebrew textual, and Greek textual studies in a number of theological and counseling journals. His books include Setting the Captives Free: A Christian Theology for Domestic Violence (Wipf and Stock) and Good Shepherds: Elders Tending the Flock as God’s Servants (under review). Ron is also an adjunct Bible lecturer at both Cascade College and George Fox Evangelical Seminary, a co-founder of the Portland Center for Building Caring Families, and a member of the Multnomah County Early Childhood Education's Grants Committee and the Portland Wrestling Officials Association. He blogs at [http://kokemushkeivogel.blogspot.com/ ] and at [the New Wineskins blog] as "KMiV".


Beverly Choate Dowdy - Beverly Choate DowdyBeverly Choate Dowdy teaches political science in Atlanta. She grew up in Detroit. Her father was full-blood Cherokee and Chippewa. She and her husband, Ken, have two sons, Chris and Trevor, who represent indie everything. They are 22 and 19 and rock our world with Jesus, music, and musings about nearly everything. Chris has the additional charm of a wife, Lauren. [Beverly Choate Dowdy's Blog]


Edward Fudge - Edward FudgeEdward Fudge presently practices law with the Houston firm of The Lanier Law Firm, P.C. His mother's family were missionaries in southern Africa from the 1920s, and she was born and reared in what are now Zambia and Zimbabwe. Her parents were Will and Delia Short, and their story and hers are told in brief in Edward's book, The Sound of His Voice. His father was Bennie Lee Fudge, a Christian publisher and preacher who influenced a generation of believers in Churches of Christ and Christian Churches through his "Use Your Bible" workbooks for Sunday Schools. Edward is an author of Christian works and a frequent guest speaker at many churches and gatherings, and operates the gracEmail ministry as well as maintaining its Web site. [www.EdwardFudge.com]


Doug Foster - Doug FosterDr. Doug Foster is a Professor of Church History in the Graduate School of Theology at Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas. In addition to teaching, he is also the Director of the Center for Restoration Studies at the University. Dr. Foster's scholarly work has concentrated on the place of the Stone-Campbell Movement in American Christianity and the nature of the idea of Christian unity. His book Will the Cycle Be Unbroken? Churches of Christ Face the 21st Century analyzes the current and future shape of Churches of Christ. Other works include Crux of the Matter: Crisis, Tradition, and the Future of Churches of Christ (ACU Press, 2000) and Seeking a Lasting City: The Church's Journey in the Story of God (ACU Press, 2005). He serves as one of three General Editors of the Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement (Eerdmans, February 2005).


David Fleer - David FleerVice President for Church Relations and Professor of Religion and Communication at Rochester College where he develops and nurtures the college’s relationships in Churches of Christ and its broader constituencies.
Fleer created, directs, and hosts the Rochester Sermon Seminar which annually draws over 200 attendees from more than 30 states and provinces and 20 Christian fellowships.
He created the committee, and helped craft the vision, and now works with the Director of Diversity, JC Thomas, Jr., to stimulate essential dialogue and cooperative ministry programs for racial diversity amongst African American and Caucasian Christians in the racially segregated Detroit metropolitan area.
David and Mae, Fleer’s wife of 30 years, have three sons: Josh (27) who is completing two MAs in Journalism and Religion from Pepperdine University, Luke (25) who earned a BA in Psychology from Rochester College and now works as recruiter for the college, and Nate (15) is a high school sophomore, active in theatre.
The family shares common hobbies, including collecting license plates, visiting major league baseball stadiums, enjoying Midwest cities, and recreational exercise.
Fleer’s most recent publication, Like A Shepherd Lead Us: Guidance for the Gentle Art of Pastoring, was edited with Charles Siburt.


Marnie C. Ferree - Marnie FerreeMarnie is employed full-time by the Woodmont Hills Church, which is the sponsor of Bethesda Workshops. Marnie began the ministry through Woodmont Hills in 1997 with the first workshop for female sex addicts, and today she is regarded as a national leader within both the clinical and Christian communities, especially in the area of women's sexual addiction. Marnie is a frequent presenter at professional, recovery, and church conferences. Marnie's book about female sexual addiction, No Stones: Women Redeemed from Sexual Shame, is the first Christian book on the subject by a woman personally in recovery. (Read the very positive review published by Christianity Today by visiting http://christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/012/35.66.html.) Her second book is L.I.F.E. Guide for Women, a workbook for female sex addicts. Marnie and her husband David are parents of two college-age children.


Anne-Geri' Fann - Anne-Geri FannAnne-Geri’ (“Angie”) and her extremely cool husband David love laughing with friends so hard that beverage comes out of their noses. Her mission experience extends from her birthplace of New Zealand to all over the world, but her primary work is in Honduras where she has co-directed youth camps and lead short-term mission teams for almost 20 years. She has written a book about short-term mission work to be published April 2006. She is a little bit of a hippie who enjoys her large organic garden and a good cup of hot tea after a hearty hike in the mountains. Her favourite animal is the donkey because when it brays it reminds her that even on her best day as a human being she sounds pretty ridiculous compared to her great God. Angie is a High School Spanish teacher and often teaches Religion courses on the university level. She is fluent in Spanish and dangerous in German, but her Klingon is hopeless. Follow her life journey at [www.annegeri.blogspot.com].


Randy Gill - Randy GillRandy Gill is worship minister for the Woodmont Hills Church of Christ in Nashville, Tennessee. Before moving to Nashville to work with Woodmont Hills in the fall of 1997, Randy taught music and served as Associate Director of Church Relations at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He is a graduate of Harding University and the University of Michigan and holds a doctorate in choral and church music from the University of Southern California. His songs and arrangements are sung in churches and schools across the country. He and his wife, LaJuana, have a grown son, Chris, who lives in Los Angeles.


Jane Montgomery Gibson - Jane Montgomery Gibson teaches Spanish and has a photography business, "Jane Gibson Photography" and is a member of the Harker Heights Chamber of Commerce. In association with christinspired.com, she has published thirty-six children's books and gift books.


Rick Gamble - Rick GambleRick Gamble is minister at "Followers of Christ," a nondenominational gathering near the core of the city of Brantford, Ontario, Canada. He also teaches Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Married to Susan for 26 years, his interests include documentary work, which has taken him to seven countries in Africa, long-distance running, and writing. He's also been published in Grace Centered Magazine. E-mail him at [sgamble@bfree.on.ca].


Joshua J. Graves - Joshua J. GravesJoshua Graves is a minister serving the Rochester Church of Christ in Rochester Hills, MI and adjunct professor of religion for Rochester College. Josh did graduate studies at Abilene Christian University and Lipscomb University (M.Div.). Currently, he's a doctoral student at Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta. He’s co-written the Study Guide for Mere Discipleship (Brazos Press) with noted author Lee Camp (June, 2008). He is married to Kara, the real theologian in the family. You can reach him at jgraves@rochestercoc.org or visit his online journal at [www.joshgraves.blogspot.com].


Gary Holloway - Gary HollowayGary Holloway teaches Spiritual Formation at Lipscomb University, Nashville, Tennessee. See his book Living in God's Love at the ZOE Life Store and his article "An Invitation to Live in God's Love", co-written with Earl Lavender in our Spiritual Formation issue. E-mail him at [gary.holloway@lipscomb.edu].


Karen Hill - Karen Hill, grandmother of Shelby and another on the way, is also assistant to Max Lucado (Oak Hills Church of Christ). She is the author of My Faith Journal, My Prayer Journal, and Grandmother's Wonderful Wisdom. Karen and her husband, Art, have three children and live in Texas.


John Mark Hicks - John Mark HicksJohn Mark Hicks is professor of theology at Lipscomb University, Nashville, Tennessee. He holds an M.A. in Humanities from Western Kentucky University and a Ph.D. in Reformation and Post-Reformation History from Westminster Theological Seminary. Hicks is author of Come to the Table: Revisioning the Lord's Supper (2002) and co-author with Greg Taylor of Down in the River to Pray: Revisioning Baptism as God's Transforming Work (2004).


Katie Hays - Katie HaysKatie Hays is a minister at the Lawrenceville First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Georgia. She was a minister for the West Islip Church of Christ on Long Island when she offered the communion meditation "What Are You Hungry For?" there, and was grateful to receive no parenting advice after the service ended. The meditation "Remembering the Day that Everything Changed" was offered over the Lord’s Supper table at the Brookline Church of Christ, Brookline, Mass., September 30, 2001.


Ken Haynes - Ken HaynesKen Haynes is an executive with IBM. He lives in Birmingham, AL. with his wife, Deborah. They have three children Will, Meg and Wesley. Ken is an MBA graduate of Auburn University. He shares a life of faith with a tribe known as Disciples' Fellowship (http://www.disciplesfellowship.com) and is active in the Birmingham Emergent Cohort. He enjoys college football, life on Lake Martin and reading books he does not understand. E-mail him at [haynesk@us.ibm.com].


Al Haley - Al HaleyAlbert Haley is writer-in-residence and assistant professor of English at Abilene Christian University. He is also a novelist, short story writer and poet whose work has been published in national journals including The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly. Among his works are more than 30 short stories for anthologies and national and regional periodicals and journals, and more than 25 poetry and prose poems for such publications as The Texas Observer. His writing awards include the John Irving First Novel Prize and the Transatlantic Review/Henfield Foundation Fiction Award. He has authored Home Ground: Stories of Two Families and the Land, Exotic: a Novel and other works.


Jackie Halstead - Jackie HalsteadDr. Jackie L. Halstead is Chair of the department of Marriage and Family Therapy of Abilene Christian University. Her growing interest in spiritual direction, silent retreats and contemplative prayer have been a blessing in her teaching, speaking, counseling, parenting two daughters, and partnering with her husband, Randy. She above all enjoys spending time outside enjoying the beauty of God's creation. Jackie can be reached at [halstead@acu.edu].


Mark Love - Mark LoveMark Love is an Assistant Professor of Ministry and the Director of Ministry Events in the Graduate School of Theology at Abilene Christian University. Prior to joing ACU he spent 17 years in full-time congregational ministry (the last 11 in Portland, Oregon). He is dedicated to helping churches and leaders define their ministries missionally. E-mail him at [love@bible.acu.edu].


Thom Lemmons - Thom LemmonsThom Lemmons writes novels and manages ACU Press/Hillcrest Publishing. His works include the bestseller Jabez: a Novel, published by WaterBrook Press; Mother of Faith, Woman of Means and Daughter of Jerusalem, published by Multnomah Books. Other works include He Who Wept, Sunday Clothes and King's Ransom. He has three children.


Phillip Morrison - Phillip MorrisonPhillip Morrison was, for many years, managing editor of Wineskins Magazine and wrote the column "AfterGlow" opposite its inside back cover. He was also the former managing editor for Upreach magazine, and worked as a fund-raising consultant and conducted study tours to Bible lands.




Brian McLaren - Brian McLarenCalled "the guru of younger evangelical pastors" by Robert E. Webber in the book The Younger Evangelicals, Brian McLaren is at the forefront of the Emergent Christianity movement. He is a senior fellow in Emergent (www.emergentvillage.com), an organization dedicated to developing new approaches to Christian theology and new forms of faith communities. McLaren is the founding minister of a nondenominational church in the Baltimore-Washington D.C. area. He is author of several books, including The Story We Find Ourselves In: Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian (Jossey-Bass, 2003), and A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey (Jossey-Bass, 2001), winner of Christianity Today's Award of Merit for Best Christian Living Title for 2002.


Greg Newton - Greg NewtonGreg Newton, his wife Marsha, and their two children live in Birmingham, Alabama where they settled after eight years of planting churches in Tanzania, East Africa. A graduate of Freed-Hardeman and Abilene Christian universities, Greg now serves within a spiritual village of believers who call themselves Disciples’ Fellowship. Greg considers himself unusually blessed to share life and ministry with these friends and mentors. In addition to his relationships with these fellow-travelers, he enjoys the creativity of writing and art, video games, classic rock, and history.


Scott Owings - Scott OwingsScott is Spiritual Formation Minister at Otter Creek Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to coming to Nashville, he and his wife Lisa were missionaries in East Europe for ten years. Scott enjoys walks with his wife, reading and playing with his three children, and drinking good coffee with a great book. Scott has recently published an e-book on his experience in the mystical city of Prague. [http://www.heartlight.org/blogfromprague/]


John Ogren - John OgrenJohn Ogren serves the South MacArthur Church of Christ in Irving, Texas as the Communities of Faith Minister, coordinating adult education, small groups, and church planting. Formerly, he served in the same congregation leading worship and ministering to young families. He and his wife Wendy have two boys, Isaiah and Nathaniel.


Kaye Pepin - Kaye PepinKaye Pepin is a graduate of Harding University, living and working in Cookeville Tennessee. She’s married to an army officer and has homeschooled their three boys for the past 11 years. She writes an occasional column for the Cookeville Herald-Citizen newspaper. She teaches Bible classes, tutors foster children, and is active in various community programs. You can read her blog at [http://kayestearoom.blogspot.com/] or email her at [katya13@aol.com].


Kasey S. Pipes - Kasey S. PipesKasey S. Pipes wrote speeches for George W. Bush from 1999 to 2003. In 2004, he was the chief author of the Republican Party National Platform. He has written a history of the Republican Party and civil rights. He currently serves as President and CEO of The Pipes Company, a corporate communications consulting firm and his first book, Ike's Final Battle: The Road to Little Rock and the Challenge of Equality was released in early 2007.


Fred Peatross - Fred PeatrossFred Peatross is a Christian who lives and worships in Huntington, West Virginia. He has been a deacon, a missionary to the former Soviet Union, a pulpit minister, and shepherd. Fred has written three books. He is married to a dietitian, and is the father of three college children. Fred makes "ordinary attempts" to evangelize through relational acts of kindness and enjoys praying behind his friends' backs as he journeys with them as a spiritual explorer and sometimes guide. He avidly creates safe-places for the pre-Christian. [Fred Peatross' book Missio Dei: In the Crisis of Christianity, reviewed in New Wineskins]. He writes an e-mail newsletter you can subscribe to at [Abductive Columns] and writes a blog a [http://fpeatross.blogspot.com/].


Eric Quiram - Eric Quiram is the author of the writings about Christ, community, culture, and you that you can read when you click the four photos on the top of our Web site. He is a songwriter who has served in varying capacities in the Nashville music business, producing children's albums, working closely with the country and contemporary Christian industries, and penning songs both under contract and on his own.


Rubel Shelly - Rubel ShellyRubel Shelly preached for the Family of God at Woodmont Hills in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1978-2005. During that time he also taught at Lipscomb University and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, and is the author or co-author of many books, including The Jesus Community: A Theology of Relational Faith and The Second Incarnation. He presently lives in the Greater Detroit area where he teaches philosophy and religion at Rochester College. He is known as a community leader in Nashville and has served with such groups as the AIDS Education Committee of the American Red Cross, a medical relief project to an 1100-bed children's hospital in Moscow called "From Nashville With Love," and "Seeds of Kindness."

He is the author of more than 20 books, including several which have been translated into languages such as Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, French, and Russian. He has published widely in religious journals. He is co-editor with Mike Cope of the online magazine New Wineskins. Shelly has lectured on Christian apologetics, ethics, and medical ethics on university campuses across America and in several foreign countries. He has done short-term mission work in such places as Kenya, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Bulgaria, and Russia. He was educated at Harding University (B.A.), Harding Graduate School of Religion (M.A., M. Th.), and Vanderbilt University (M.A., Ph.D.). He is married to the former Myra Shappley, and they are the parents of three children: Mrs. David (Michelle) Arms, Tim, and Tom. [RubelShelly.com]


Patty Slack - Patty SlackPatty Slack is a graduate of Harding University. She and her family spent 7 years as part of a church planting mission in Togo, West Africa. She currently resides in the Pacific Northwest where she home schools her 3 daughters.




Scott Simpson - Scott SimpsonScott Simpson was an English teacher at the high school and university levels for twenty years, holding faculty positions at York College, ACU and Black Hills State University. Scott also served as Executive Director of Camp Blue Haven in Las Vegas, NM for two years. He is currently an Educational Specialist working with schools on the Rosebud Lakota Reservation in South Dakota. The Simpson family lives and worships in Spearfish, SD on the northern end of the Black Hills. Visit Scott’s wiki at: [http://dsimpson.tie.wikispaces.net/].


Terry Smith - Terry SmithTerry S. Smith, B.A., M.A., M.Th.,D.Min. (Boston University in Personality, Religion and Culture) provides pastoral counseling, life coaching, and leadership development for Woodmont Hills church and business community. He and his wife Charlotte have been married thirty-nine years and have four daughters and six grandchildren. E-mail him at [Terry Smith].


Deron Smith - Deron SmithDeron is married to Becca, and they have three daughters, Abby, Makayla, and Toria. They were a part of a mission team in Jinja, Uganda from 1994-2002. Deron has been a minister at the East Sunshine Church of Christ in Springfield, Missouri since January 2004. He studied at Harding University (B.S. and M.Div.) and Trinity College, University of Bristol, England (Ph.D. in Theology).


John Alan Turner - John Alan TurnerJohn Alan Turner lives just outside of Atlanta, GA, with his wife Jill and their two daughters Anabel and Eliza. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in religion and philosophy. Having served churches in California, Maryland and Texas, John now works as a freelance writer and speaker. He speaks to thousands of people every year at youth rallies, retreats and conferences. [Email John Alan Turner at jaturner@pastors.com]


Darryl Tippens - tippens Darryl Tippens is provost of Pepperdine University and a department editor of New Wineskins. He works with the deans of Pepperdine's five schools on all issues related to the effective planning and management of the university's academic resources. In addition, he is directly responsible for the University's Disability Services Office and the office of the University Chaplain. E-mail him at [darryl.tippens@pepperdine.edu].


Greg Taylor - Greg TaylorGreg Taylor is Senior Editor of New Wineskins. He is also lead minister for the Garnett Church of Christ in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His newest book, co-authored with Anne-Geri’ Fann, How to Get Ready for Short-Term Missions, was released by Thomas Nelson in May 2006. His novel is titled High Places (Leafwood, 2004). He co-authored with John Mark Hicks, Down in the River to Pray: Revisioning Baptism as God’s Transforming Work. Greg and his wife, Jill, have three children: Ashley, Anna, and Jacob. Before moving to Tulsa in 2005, the Taylors lived in Nashville, Tennessee four years, and they lived in Uganda seven years, where they worked with a church planting team. His blog is http://gregtaylor.cc.

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