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Equipping pastors to lead faithfully in the public square.

6-week virtual forum

to sharpen your apologetic and give you the tools to deal with the challenges of politics and culture as the next Presidential election looms.

TOPICS

Children’s Rights & the Modern Family

Exploring the different ways that culture is challenging God's design for Marriage, Family, and Sexuality.

The Bible & Borders

Investing themes of immigration throughout the Bible to create an informed approach to the debate around borders across the world today.

The Spirit of Our Politics

Building a distinctly Christian approach to politics that results in healing rather than division, kindness rather than hatred, and hope rather than despair.

Compassion & Conviction

Escaping the binary choices that our politics offer today and instead choosing to approach with love and truth, compassion and conviction.

SPEAKERS

Katy Faust is Founder of Them Before Us, a global movement defending children’s right to their mother and father.
She publishes, speaks, and testifies widely on why marriage and family are matters of justice for children. Her articles have appeared in Newsweek, USA Today, The Federalist, Public Discourse, The Daily Signal, the Washington Examiner, the American Mind, and the American Conservative.

Michael Wear is strategist, speaker and overall expert when it comes to the intersection of faith, politics and public life. He is the founder of the Center for Christianity in Public Life.
He has advised President Obama (crazy story how they met), as well as some of the nation’s leading foundations, non-profits and public leaders, on some of the thorniest issues and exciting opportunities that define American life today. He believes that the spiritual health and civic character of individuals is deeply tied to the state of our politics and public affairs.
Michael directed faith outreach for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign and was also one of the youngest White House staffers in modern American history.

Dr. Carroll is the Scripture Press Ministries Professor of Biblical Studies and Pedagogy at Wheaton College.
Dr. Carroll is half-Guatemalan and was raised bilingual and bicultural. In his youth, he spent many summers in Guatemala and later taught at El Seminario Teológico Centroamericano in Guatemala City for thirteen years. The realities of Central America sparked Dr. Carroll's fascination with the Old Testament. The relevance of the biblical text for the challenges of poverty, war, and politics in those developing countries led him to a passionate focus on Old Testament social ethics and the social sciences.

Justin Giboney is an attorney, political strategist, and President of the AND Campaign.
Through AND, Justin seeks to educate and organize Christians for civic and cultural engagement that results in better representation, more just and compassionate policies, and a healthier political culture.
Justin serves on the Urban League of Greater Atlanta Board of Directors, participated in LEAD Atlanta, Outstanding Atlanta, the Georgia Bar Association’s Leadership Academy, and as the co-chair of Obama for America's Gen44-Atlanta initiative.

Hosted by Greg Basch and Josh Wood

“Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.”

(Jude 3:1)