Aaron Preston
Aaron Preston is a Professor of Philosophy at Valparaiso University. He studied classics (B.A.) and theology (M.Th.) before earning his PH.D. in philosophy under Dallas Willard at USC. His early work developed a historical and metaphilosophical critique of the analytic tradition in philosophy, related to its role in what Dallas...
Location: Northwest Indiana/Chicago area
Specialties
• The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge
• Faith, Reason, and Spiritual Knowledge
• Critical Race Theory /Critical Social Justice Theory /Standpoint Epistemology
• Personalism – as antidote to the disappearance of moral knowledge; as alternative to Critical Race Theory
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Bill Hull
Bill Hull is a writer and discipleship evangelist calling the church to choose the life to which Jesus called every disciple. He has written many books on this subject, and spent twenty years working it out as a pastor. The core of Bill’s early writing was Jesus Christ Disciple Maker...
Location: Southern California
Specialties
The Gospel and its relationship to discipleship, The Disciple Making Pastor, The Disciple Making Church
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Gary Black, Jr.
Gary Black Jr., Ph.D., is Professor of Theology at Azusa Pacific University. Prior to joining APU, Black enjoyed a successful business career as a partner in an international Wall Street investment firm. As a result, he brings a unique blend of real-world corporate leadership experience to his field of theological...
Location: Southern California
Specialties
Spiritual formation, leadership development, spiritual disciplines, contemporary theology and practice, church renewal, spiritual retreats, church consulting, living out the Divine Conspiracy in the workplace.
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Gary W. Moon
Gary W. Moon, M.Div. Ph.D. served as the founding Executive Director of the Martin Institute for Christianity and Culture and the Dallas Willard Center for Christian Spiritual Formation at Westmont College and continues to direct their resource development initiatives through serving as the director of Conversatio Divina: A Center for...
Location: Atlanta, GA
Specialties
Christian spiritual formation as relevant to: 1) a way of living; 2) the practice of psychotherapy, counseling and spiritual direction; and 3) burnout prevention.
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Greg Jesson
Greg recently retired from teaching philosophy at Luther College and the University of Iowa. He was also the Director of the Center for Ethics and Public Life at Luther College.
Greg’s long journey from Los Angeles to Iowa took him to Switzerland where he studied philosophy at L’Abri with Francis...
Location: Northeastern Iowa
Specialties
Greg teaches an overview of how to read and understand Dallas's Christian books, as well as a course on The Divine Conspiracy. His other specialties include epistemology, ethics, Edmund Husserl, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, and Francis Schaeffer.
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J.P. Moreland
J. P. Moreland is Distinguished Professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University in La Mirada, California where he has taught for 25 years. He has authored, edited, or contributed papers to ninety-five books, including Does God Exist? (Prometheus), Universals (McGill-Queen’s), Consciousness and the Existence of God (Routledge)...
Location: Southern California
Specialties
Philosophy of Mind, Spiritual Formation, Metaphysics, Apologetics, Science and Christianity
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Jan Johnson
Jan is the author of twenty books, and more than a thousand Bible studies and magazine articles. Many of her books are about spiritual formation: Invitation to the Jesus Life, Abundant Simplicity, Enjoying the Presence of God and When the Soul Listens. Her Bible studies include the Spiritual Disciplines Bible...
Location: Southern California
Specialties
Abundant Simplicity, Quiet Day: Trusting God for Everything (Psalm 23), Hearing God, How to Love Your Difficult Neighbor (Living without Contempt) (based on Dallas’s teaching in chapter 7 of The Divine Conspiracy on this topic with additional practice ideas, exercises and reflections), Enjoying the Presence of God, Meditation and Contemplation: Trusting God for Everything. (See all: Retreats and Conferences.)
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Keith Matthews
Dr. Keith J. Matthews is Chair of the Graduate Ministry Department, Interim Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program, and Professor of Practical Theology at Azusa Pacific Seminary. He is a 25 year pastoral practitioner in diverse contexts, serving churches from coast to coast. He is also an Adjunct Professor...
Location: Southern California
Specialties
Christian Formation and Leadership, Contemporary Cultural Issues in Ministry
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Keith Meyer
Keith Meyer (D.Min., M.Div.) recently retired as the Lead Pastor of Hope Covenant Church, St. Cloud, MN. He is an adjunct professor at Denver Seminary, and is also a speaker, teacher, and retreat leader through his organization, Becoming the Change Ministries. He provides individualized coaching for the personal formation of...
Location: The Twin Cities of Minneapolis & St. Paul, MN
Specialties
Jesus: Teacher in Life’s Classroom, Becoming the Change: Spiritual Formation for Individuals, Groups, Organizations & Churches, Ministry & Marketplace Leader’s Soul Care, Holy Habits, The Virtues, Listening & Intercessory Prayer, Creating an Individual & Corporate Rule of Life, Finding Your True Self & Life’s Sealed Orders, Human Identity: Gender, Sexuality & Jesus, Life and Ministry in Jesus’ End of the Boat, Doing & Being for Becoming, Walking in Christ’s Wisdom, Power and Love, Ministry & Your Marriage, and Understanding the Writings of Dallas Willard.
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Kent Carlson
Kent Carlson is the founding pastor (1984) and co-senior pastor (with Mike Lueken) of Oak Hills Church in Folsom, California. He is a graduate of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is the co-author (with Mike Lueken) of _Renovation of the Church_ (InterVarsity Press, 2011). He has been actively involved in...
Location: Northern California
Specialties
The Kingdom of God. What is the Gospel? The Church at the end of Christendom. Spiritual formation and mission in the church today. Ambition. Consumerism. Success. Balancing the practicalities of maintaining the organization of the church while rigorously seeking to develop an alternative community of Christ-followers who have embraced the call of the gospel. How being a Cubs fan prepares one for life in the Kingdom of God.
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Mike Lueken
Mike Lueken has been a pastor at Oak Hills Church in Folsom, California for the past 17 years. He has a Masters of Divinity from Trinity Seminary in Deerfield, Ill. and is currently working on his Doctor of Ministry at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, CA. Mike co-authored the book Renovation...
Location: Northern California
Specialties
Spiritual formation, How Transformation Actually Happens, The Integration of Mission, Formation and Community, Leading Congregations in Spiritual Formation, The Green Bay Packers.
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Steven L. Porter
Dr. Porter teaches theology, spiritual formation, and philosophical theology for the Institute for Spiritual Formation, Talbot School of Theology and at Rosemead School of Psychology (both of Biola University). He is the author of Restoring the Foundations of Epistemic Justification: A Direct Realist and Conceptualist Theory of Foundationalism, co-editor of...
Location: Southern California
Specialties
Spiritual Formation, Discipleship to Jesus, Suffering and Growth, Spirituality and Missions, Psychology and Spiritual Change, Spiritual Formation as Evidence for God’s Existence, etc.
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Todd Hunter
Todd Hunter is the bishop of The Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others and the retired founding pastor of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Costa Mesa, CA. He is past President of Alpha USA and former National Director for the Association of Vineyard Churches. He is author of...
Location: Franklin, Tennessee
Specialties
Gospel; Kingdom; Apprenticeship to Jesus; Evangelism; How Church Can be a Spiritual Practice for Followers of Jesus; Temptation; Spiritual Formation for Leaders
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Vicki Orr
Vicki served as an ordained Protestant Minister for 20 years, retiring in 2006. She is a graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA with an M.Div in 1985 and a D.Min in 1994. In 2008, Vicki established Vicki Orr Ministries: The Bible: God Calling Out to Us!
In 2012...
Location: Southern California
Specialties
Bible Teaching and Preaching, Christian Spiritual Formation, Lectio Divina, Prayer and Healing, Living in the Kingdom Now!, and From Forgiving to Blessing Those Who Hurt You: A Spiritual Journey.
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