For 18 years, Dr. Minger has been an associate professor of preaching at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. A graduate of Hope College and Alumnus of the Asbury Theological Seminary with her M.Div. and D.Min., she also has her Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. Having pastored several churches through the years, particularly before full-time professor work, she was ordained in the United Methodist Church as an elder in 1991.

Abby Hutto is the Director of Spiritual Formation at Story Presbyterian Church in Westerville, Ohio. She loves to study and teach God's Word and delights in helping others experience and know their Heavenly Father better. Abby is married to Ken, and they have two teenage children, Hannah and Harry. Abby is the author of God For Us: Discovering the Heart of the Father through the Life of the Son and The Rev. highly recommends it! He says, “Abby is gifted to convey biblical truth is ways that resonate with everyday folks struggling to make sense of the doldrums and pains of life, partly because she uses ancient stories to inform the modern ones that have our names in them.”

Dr. Karen Swallow Prior is Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Research Professor of English and Christianity and Culture, as well as a writer, sometimes runner, wife, splendid conversationalist, and chicken and dog wrangler. She has written several books like Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me and On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books, and also served as co-editor (with Joshua D. Chatraw) of Cultural Engagement: A Crash Course in Contemporary Issues.

Orane is Jamaican born and raised, and proud about it! He and his wife, Dana, landed in Canada in 2012 to pursue graduate degrees at Trinity Western University, through ACTS Seminaries and the Canada Institute of Linguistics, respectively. As you will hear on this episode, they are sweethearts of the highest degree and former members of Wycliffe Bible Translators, where Orane urged young people to consider participating in global missions and Bible translation. While working on his master’s degree at TWU, Orane worked in the maintenance department doing carpentry and then continued on after graduating in 2016.

JongDuk oversees Student Ministries’ audio and video production at Trinity Western University. Though born in South Korea, he was raised in B.C. throughout his childhood. Before joining TWU in 2021, he worked at Grace Hanin Community Church in Surrey, first as a volunteer and then a paid staff member of the media team. JongDuk is a 2019 graduate of Simon Fraser University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology.

Phil Vischer is a follower of Jesus, filmmaker, and a founding architect of VeggieTales, the groundbreaking children’s series that sold more than 65 million copies. If you have never heard of Bob the Tomato or Larry the Cucumber, you are forgiven, but please stop right now and take some time to learn about them. They are awesome! Though quite successful, in 2003 Phil’s company, Big Idea Productions, entered bankruptcy. However, it did not extinguish the desire to use his storytelling and computer animation gifts to help people, especially children, better understand the Bible. Read more about his sojourn in his book, Me, Myself, & Bob: A Grown Up Book About God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables.

Dr. Ekpedeme Wade believes deeply in holistic health and care done in Jesus’ name. She is an assistant professor of biblical counseling at Dallas Theological Seminary, with her own private practice that focuses on treating the whole person (Twelve-Two Christian Counseling), alongside being a Board Certified Family Physician, who has been practicing medicine for over 15 years. After completing her bachelor’s degree at the University of Missouri at Columbia, she went on to earn M.D. there, and then eventually also finished her master’s degree in biblical counseling at Dallas Theological Seminary.

Grace Khasar is a communicator, connector, connoisseur of 90’s R&B music, and the world’s biggest fan of fried chicken. As a woman who wears many hats comfortably, she has been overseeing the middle and high school, and young adult ministries at Living Word International Christian Church in Silver Spring, Maryland for a few years, but is moving on to a new job on the west coast of the U.S. She was born in Nigeria and grew-up in San Francisco, California. Grace completed undergraduate studies at California State University, East Bay and earned a master’s degree in social entrepreneurship from Hult International Business School in London.

A native of Arkansas, The Rev. Dr. Chris Davis has been the senior pastor of the historic St. Paul Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee now for more than 20 years. He is also a professor and associate dean at Memphis Theological Seminary and the president of the Tennessee Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention. Being such a lifelong learner, he has a doctoral degree from United Theological Seminary and is presently completing his Ph.D. in leadership at Anderson University.

On this episode, The Rev. introduces us to Jay Black and Kabronicka Ellis (no relation to The Rev.) from Kingdom & Will, a Christian apparel company based in Montgomery, Alabama. They sell premium garments “to stimulate and initiate dialogue concerning King Jesus and his kingdom.”