Gordon Graham is Henry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at Princeton Theological Seminary. Born in Ireland and educated in Ireland, Scotland and England, he taught philosophy in Scotland at the University of St Andrews from 1975-95 and at the University of Aberdeen from 1996-2006 before taking up his post in Princeton in January 2006. He has published on a wide range of philosophical topics relating to art, education, ethics, politics, religion, and technology. He has a special interest in the Scottish philosophical tradition, and directs the Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy at Princeton. In 1999 he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's premier academy of science and letters. He was Director of The Abraham Kuyper Center for Public Theology from 2008-2015 and headed the Theology dimension of the Varieties of Understanding Project which ran from 2013-16.

Gregory Alan Thornbury, Ph.D., serves as the sixth President of The King’s College in New York City – an institution dedicated to faith, free enterprise, and The American Dream. Called “America’s first hipster college president” by The American Spectator, Dr. Thornbury is also a Visiting Professor at the Values and Capitalism initiative of the American Enterprise Institute; a Senior Fellow for The Kairos Journal; a columnist for Townhall.com; and a member of the editorial board of the Salem Media Group. His recent books focus on the relationship between philosophy, theology, and culture. Prior to joining King’s in 2013, he served at Union University in Tennessee as a Professor of Philosophy, Founding Dean of the School of Theology, and Vice President. He has completed graduate work at Southern Seminary in Louisville and the University of Oxford in England. A popular campus speaker and lecturer, he is also a member of the Society of Christian Philosophers.

Roberta Green Ahmanson is a writer and philanthropist whose public activities are focused on deepening awareness and understanding of the role of religion in public life, the importance of knowing history to understand the present, and the vital role the arts play in shaping human experience. Since 1986, Ahmanson has worked with her husband, Howard, in shaping the granting priorities of his private philanthropy, Fieldstead and Company. In that time, the Ahmansons have sponsored a number of art exhibitions in the United States and Great Britain including “Caravaggio: The Final Years” and “Sacred Made Real,” both at the National Gallery in London. Ahmanson currently chairs the board of directors for the Museum of Biblical Art in New York City. In addition to lecturing for the International Arts Movement in New York City, Ahmanson is the co-author with Paul Marshall and Lela Gilbert of Islam at the Crossroads, 2002, and a contributor and co-editor with Marshall and Gilbert of Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion, forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Eric Metaxas is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Miracles, Bonhoeffer, Amazing Grace, Seven Men, and Seven Women. His newest book, If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty, was published in June 2016. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and The New Yorker, and Metaxas has appeared as a cultural commentator on CNN, the Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. He is the host of the Eric Metaxas Show, a nationally syndicated radio program heard in more than 120 cities around the U.S. and featuring in-depth interviews with a wide variety of guests. Metaxas is also the founder and host of Socrates in the City, the acclaimed series of conversations on “life, God, and other small topics." He is a senior fellow and lecturer at large at the King’s College in New York City, where he lives with his wife and daughter.

Alissa Wilkinson is the staff film writer at Vox.com and an associate professor of English and humanities at The King's College, where she teaches courses in criticism and cultural theory. She was formerly the chief film critic at Christianity Today, and her writing has been published at Rolling Stone, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Pacific Standard, Books & Culture, Paste, and elsewhere. She is co-author, with Robert Joustra, of How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World (Eerdmans), and her second book, Orphaned Believers: Reframing Religion in the Age of Faith-Based Film (The Critical Press) is due out next summer. Alissa and her husband Tom live in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and are members at Resurrection Clinton Hill.

Dru Johnson is an Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at The King's College in New York City, an associate director of the Jewish Philosophical Theology project with The Herzl Institute in Israel, and co-chairs the Hebrew Bible and Philosophy program unit in the Society of Biblical Literature. As a former skinhead, high school drop-out, veteran of counter-narcotics operations in Colombia, I.T. manager, and pastor, he currently spends most of his time raising his four children to become none of these things. He has published three books on the role of knowledge and ritual in the Bible.

Dru Johnson is an Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at The King's College in New York City, an associate director of the Jewish Philosophical Theology project with The Herzl Institute in Israel, and co-chairs the Hebrew Bible and Philosophy program unit in the Society of Biblical Literature. As a former skinhead, high school drop-out, veteran of counter-narcotics operations in Colombia, I.T. manager, and pastor, he currently spends most of his time raising his four children to become none of these things. He has published three books on the role of knowledge and ritual in the Bible.

James Cook, After completing his undergraduate in Classics at Oxford University in 2010, James stayed on to take a Masters and Doctorate in Ancient History. His research area was in the works of the late fourth-century preacher John Chrysostom, exploring the extent to which his sermons can be used as sources for popular Christianity. He came to faith as an undergraduate, and he is now exploring the possibility of going into full-time ordained ministry within the Church of England. He is currently with us at Central for six months as a ministry intern.

Scott G. Stephenson is president and chief executive officer of Verisk Analytics. During his tenure as CEO, Verisk was added to the S&P 500 and was named by Forbes Magazine the 18th most innovative company in the world and one of America's best places to work. In 2016, Verisk was named to The Just 100 list of best corporate citizens. Before joining Verisk, Scott was a senior partner with The Boston Consulting Group, and before that he designed components of missile propulsion systems. He got his BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is an elder here at Central Presbyterian Church.