Authors of Color

Kristel Acevedo

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:17:14 GMT

Kristel Acevedo

Femi B. Adeleye

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:51:28 GMT

Femi B. Adeleye (MTh, University of Edinburgh) is a Christian minister and ordained priest in the Anglican communion. He is associate general secretary for partnership and collaboration for the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES). He previously served as regional secretary for the IFES movement in English-speaking Africa. Adeleye has also been a featured speaker at the Urbana Student Missions Conference and spoke at the Cape Town 2010 Lausanne Congress. He is the author of Preachers of a Different Gospel. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in African Christian history from the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology in Ghana.

Jared E. Alcántara

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:26:59 GMT

Jared E. Alcántara (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is associate professor of preaching at Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary in Waco, Texas. An ordained Baptist minister, he has served as a youth pastor, associate pastor, and teaching pastor in Illinois, Massachusetts, Oregon, and New Jersey.

Prior to Truett, he served as an adjunct instructor at Gordon-Conwell's Hispanic Ministries Program in New York City, as a doctoral teaching fellow in homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary, and from 2014-18, he was an associate professor of homiletics at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. Alcántara's teaching and research is in homiletics, with interests in global south preaching, cultural and intercultural engagement, and the role of race and ethnicity in preaching, especially in Latino/a and African American contexts. He lives in the Waco area with his wife, Jennifer, and their three daughters.

Estrelda Y. Alexander

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:19:00 GMT

Estrelda Alexander (PhD, The Catholic University of America) is a visiting professor of theology in the School of Divinity at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and executive director of the William Seymour Educational Foundation.

Claude R. Alexander Jr.

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 21:52:45 GMT

Bishop Claude R. Alexander Jr. is senior pastor of The Park Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. He serves on the board of Christianity Today, Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and Movement.org. He is the chair of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary's board of trustees and a past president of the Hampton University Ministers Conference, and previously served on the board of Mission America Coaltion.

A leader among both Christian and civic organizations, Bishop Alexander has consistently been listed among the most influential persons in Charlotte, North Carolina, working with government and community officials to address the community's most critical issues. He holds a BA in philosophy from Morehouse College, an MDiv from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and a DMin from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Kimberly, have two daughters.

Emilio Alvarez

Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:56:16 GMT

Emilio Alvarez (PhD, Fordham University) is the presiding bishop of the Union of Charismatic Orthodox Churches, a communion that embraces the one holy, catholic, apostolic tradition. He is also associate provost for lifelong learning at Asbury Theological Seminary.

Peace Amadi

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 22:47:17 GMT

Peace Amadi is a psychology professor, speaker, children's book author, content creator, and host. She holds a BA in psychology from UCLA and a masters and doctorate in psychology from Azusa Pacific University. As a woman of faith, she uses her various platforms to bridge the gap between mental health and faith for the purposes of engaging a deeper healing journey. As a woman of Nigerian descent, she calls for reflection on how healing is affected by culture and family.

In Peace's personal time, she enjoys creating meaningful moments with friends and family, sweet iced coffees, and digging up stories she'll find some new way to share.

Dr. David A. Anderson

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:23:38 GMT

David A. Anderson is the founder and senior pastor of Bridgeway Community Church, a multicultural congregation in Columbia, Maryland. He is the founder and president of Gracism Global, and chancellor of Omega Graduate School. Dr. Anderson received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Moody Bible Institute and his Doctor of Philosophy in the sociological integration of religion and society at Oxford Graduate School. His books include Letters Across the Divide, Multicultural Ministry, and Gracism. A sought-after conference speaker, lecturer, and consultant, he has had media exposure on over 2000 radio stations and television appearances, including Black Entertainment Television (BET), C-SPAN, TBN, PAX, and ABC promoting his message of diversity. He also hosts a live radio show, Afternoons with Dr. David Anderson: Your Bridge Building Voice in the Nation's Capital. Dr. Anderson and his wife, Amber, have three children.

Uche Anizor

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:22:01 GMT

Uche Anizor (PhD, Wheaton College) is associate professor of biblical and theological studies at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University and an instructor at Los Angeles Bible Training School. He is the author of Kings and Priests: Scripture's Theological Account of Its Readers. He is married to Melissa and they have three children.

Thabiti M. Anyabwile

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:23:57 GMT

Thabiti M. Anyabwile is senior pastor at First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. Thabiti has a strong professional and educational background in community psychology, with special interest in the history and development of the African American church.

Quina Aragon

Thu, 28 May 2026 15:32:06 GMT

Quina Aragon

Fernando Arzola Jr.

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:28:21 GMT

Fernando Arzola Jr. (PhD, Fordham University) is dean of the college and chief academic officer at the University of Saint Katherine in San Marcos, California. He previously served at Nyack College in New York City, and as founder and executive director of the Urban Family Empowerment Center in the Bronx. Arzola is author of several books covering the fields of religious education, liturgical studies, and youth ministry. He currently writes poetry.

Vincent E. Bacote

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:01:13 GMT

Vincent E. Bacote (PhD, Drew University) is assistant professor of theology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He is the author of The Spirit in Public Theology: Appropriating the Legacy of Abraham Kuyper (Baker) and a contributor to The Gospel in Black and White (IVP), The Dictionary for the Theological Interpretation of the Bible (Baker), and Best Christian Writing 2000 (HarperCollins). His work has also appeared in such publications as Re:generation Quarterly, Urban Mission, Christianity Today, and Journal for Christian Theological Research.

Justin Ariel Bailey

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 21:31:28 GMT

Justin Ariel Bailey (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is assistant professor of theology at Dordt University. He works at the intersection of theology, culture, and ministry, and his written work has appeared in the online journal In All Things as well as Christian Scholars Review and the International Journal of Public Theology. He is an ordained minister in the Christian Reformed Church, and he has served as a pastor in Filipino-American, Korean-American, and Caucasian-American settings.

Donna Barber

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:07:08 GMT

Donna Barber is cofounder of The Voices Project, an organization that influences culture through training and promoting leaders of color. She is also the director of Champions Academy, an initiative of the Portland Leadership Foundation that provides culturally responsive leadership development for student athletes. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, Leroy, and their children.

Leroy Barber

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:46:24 GMT

Leroy Barber has dedicated more than twenty-five years to eradicating poverty, confronting homelessness, restoring local neighborhoods, healing racism, and living what Dr. King called "the beloved community." He is the author of Embrace, New Neighbor, and Everyday Missions, and the coauthor of Red, Brown, Yellow, Black and White with Velma Maia Thomas. He was also a contributing author to Tending to Eden by Scott Sabin and the groundbreaking book UnChristian by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons. The cofounder and director of the Voices Project and college pastor at Kilns College, Barber starts projects that shape society.

In 1989, burdened by the plight of Philadelphia's homeless, Leroy and his wife Donna founded Restoration Ministries to serve homeless families and children living on the streets, and in 1994 he became the director of internship programs at Cornerstone Christian Academy. He was licensed and ordained at Mt Zion Baptist Church where he served as youth director with Donna, and also served as associate minister of evangelism. In 1997, he joined FCS Urban Ministries, working with Atlanta Youth Project to serve as the founding executive director of Atlanta Youth Academies, a private elementary school providing quality Christian education for low-income families in the inner city. He also helped found DOOR Atlanta, Community Life Church, South Atlanta Marketplace, and Community Grounds Coffee shop in Atlanta, as well as Green My Hood and the Voices Project. He is on the boards of The Simple Way, Missio Alliance, The Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN), and the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA).

Leroy and his wife, Donna, have been married thirty years and together they have five children.

Read more about Leroy's work with The Voices Project.

Alvin C. Bibbs

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:33:45 GMT

Alvin Bibbs is founder and director of the Obsidian Consulting Group and former executive director of multicultural church relations for the Willow Creek Association. From 1984 to 1992, Alvin was executive director of LaSalle Street Young Life. In this role he ministered to the youth and families in the Cabrini-Green housing development project in Chicago, where he grew up. He also served as chaplain to the Chicago Cubs for seven seasons.

Kevin Blue

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:02:50 GMT

Kevin Blue wants his life to matter, and he's figured out where to start. Living in the heart of Los Angeles, he leads college students through experiences in urban ministry and on international treks to serve the poorest parts of the world. Kevin is a director with Servant Partners, which eschews comfort and dwells among the outcast. He is an elder at the multiethnic Church of the Redeemer in south central Los Angeles, focusing on racial reconciliation, compassion and justice.

Froswa' Booker-Drew

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:23:53 GMT

Froswa' Booker-Drew

Tracie Braylock

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:17:59 GMT

Tracie Braylock