- Richard Rohr — Contemplative mystic and spiritual teacher
• Focus: Non-dual thinking, inner transformation, reclaiming sacred mystery
• Key Work: Falling Upward, The Universal Christ
- Dr. Barbara A. Holmes — Womanist contemplative theologian
• Focus: Black mysticism, communal healing, quantum spirituality
• Key Work: Joy Unspeakable, Race and the Cosmos
- James H. Cone — Father of Black Liberation Theology
• Focus: God’s solidarity with the oppressed, theology of the cross and the lynching tree
• Key Work: The Cross and the Lynching Tree, God of the Oppressed
- Rachel Held Evans — Faithful doubter and literary guide for the spiritually displaced
• Focus: Bible as sacred story, permission to question, inclusive Christianity
• Key Work: Inspired, Searching for Sunday
- Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney — Womanist biblical scholar and lectionary creator
• Focus: Rewriting Scripture through a womanist lens, lifting silenced voices
• Key Work: Womanist Midrash, A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church
- Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde — Episcopal bishop and public moral leader
• Focus: Humility, civic mercy, pastoral resistance in public life
• Key Work: How We Learn to Be Brave, public sermons and statements
- Father Gregory Boyle — Jesuit priest and founder of Homeboy Industries
• Focus: Radical kinship, healing through compassion, restorative justice
• Key Work: Tattoos on the Heart, The Whole Language
- Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb — Palestinian pastor and theologian of presence
• Focus: Faith under occupation, resistance theology, reclaiming land and narrative
• Key Work: Faith in the Face of Empire, The Cross in Contexts
- Dr. Willie James Jennings — Theological visionary of belonging and decolonization
• Focus: Rethinking Christian identity, race, place, and the colonial legacy of the Church
• Key Work: The Christian Imagination, After Whiteness
- Rev. Dr. Shannon T.L. Kearns — First openly trans man ordained in the Old Catholic tradition
• Focus: Queer theology, trans embodiment, sacred storytelling
• Key Work: In the Margins: A Transgender Man’s Journey with Scripture
- Peter Rollins — Provocative philosopher-theologian of radical doubt
• Focus: Pyrotheology, unknowing, deconstructing certainty
• Key Work: The Divine Magician, Insurrection
- Dr. Cheryl Bridges Johns — Pentecostal scholar reimagining wisdom and tradition
• Focus: Sacred disruption, Spirit-filled theology, intergenerational healing
• Key Work: Re-enchanting the Text
- Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre — Latinx liberation ethicist confronting Empire
• Focus: Ethics from the margins, confronting whiteness, unsettling sanitized theology
• Key Work: Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins, Embracing Hopelessness
- Dr. Marcella Althaus-Reid — Queer, feminist, and postcolonial theologian
• Focus: Indecent theology, sexuality and faith, liberation from below
• Key Work: Indecent Theology, The Queer God