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Brian Stanley read history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and stayed on in Cambridge for his PhD researching missionary enthusiasm in Victorian religion. He has taught in theological colleges and universities in London, Bristol, and Cambridge, and from 1996 to 2001 was Director of the Currents in World Christianity Project at the University of Cambridge. With the University of Edinburgh since 2009, Professor Stanley has written or edited eight books and numerous articles, mostly in the field of the history of Christian missions. His most recent book is The Global Diffusion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Billy Graham and John Stott (Inter-Varsity Press, 2013).

Randy Boyagoda is a writer, critic and scholar, and the author of a scholarly monograph on immigration and American identity in the fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner. He also contributes reviews and commentary to a variety of publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Post, Globe and Mail, and Financial Times (UK). In addition to his 2008 monograph, he has written two novels. The first, Governor of the Northern Province, was a 2006 nominee for the ScotiaBank Giller Prize. His second novel, Beggar’s Feast, was a 2012 nominee for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. His research interests include 20C American literature and culture; religion and American public life; immigration and American identity; globalization theory; secularization theory; Sri Lankan history, literature, and culture.

K. K. Yeo is Harry R. Kendall Professor of New Testament at Garrett-Evangelical Seminary and a Visiting Professor of Peking University as well as Zhejiang University in China. He has authored and edited over 25 Chinese books, 10 English books, and is the author of Musing with Confucius and Paul (2008), The Spirit Hovers (2012), Jesus Without Borders (2014). As a Chinese Christian born and raised in Borneo, Malaysia, educated in the United States, and currently serving the global church by preparing academic and ecclesial leaders in the U.S. and China, Dr. K. K.'s teaching and research have focused on culture and the Bible, with a special emphasis on the tasks of building nations, transforming local communities, fulfilling the ideals of culture, saving individuals from chaos, meaninglessness, injustice, and violence and moving them toward wholeness, shalom and beauty and glory.

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Andrew McGowan was appointed Dean of the Berkeley Divinity School in 2014. An Anglican priest and historian, his scholarly work focuses on the life of early Christian communities, and on aspects of contemporary Anglicanism. Professor McGowan’s project of re-describing early eucharistic practice in relation to ancient food and meals is found in Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals (Oxford, 1999) and in subsequent articles and chapters produced in conversation with members of the Meals in the Greco-Roman World group of the Society of Biblical Literature. His most recent book, Ancient Christian Worship (Baker Academic, 2014) seeks to describe discursive and ritual practice in the ancient Church, including use of music and speech as well as sacramental ritual, and to acknowledge the diversity of early Christian belief and practice. He is currently working on how early Christian and other ancient Mediterranean groups used, changed, and created notions of sacrifice.

William Tabbernee was President and Distinguished Professor of the History of Christianity at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from 1991 to 2009 before taking up his position as Executive Director of the Oklahoma Conference of Churches in 2010. Dr. Tabbernee has extensive experience in ecumenical relations, including more than 20 years service as a member of the World Council of Churches’ Commission on Faith and Order. Dr. Tabbernee’s academic specialty is Christian thought and history, and he continues to write, teach, and publish in this field. He also co-directs an archaeological project exploring the site of two long-lost ancient cities which he discovered in Turkey. His most recent book is Early Christianity in Contexts: An Exploration Across Cultures and Continents (Baker Academic Press, 2014).