Mark Labberton: Christianity in America Today

I’m Guy Kawasaki, and this is Remarkable People. We're on a mission to make you remarkable.

Helping me in this episode is the remarkable Mark Labberton. He is the president of Fuller Theological Seminary though he is retiring in January 2023.

Fuller is an educational institution that is 74 years old. It has approximately 41,000 alumni. It describes itself as “is an evangelical, multidenominational, international, and multiethnic community dedicated to the equipping of men and women for the manifold ministries of Christ and his church.

Mark served in pastoral roles for 30 years before joining Fuller’s staff. His last pastoral role was at the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley. In fact, he baptized me.

Before his presidency, he was Fuller’s Lloyd John Ogilvie Associate Professor of Preaching and director of the Ogilvie Institute of Preaching for four years.

Mark attended Fuller for his Masters of Divinity, and earned a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Cambridge

He is the author of

The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor: Seeing Others Through the Eyes of Jesus

The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God's Call to Justice

Called: The Crisis and Promise of Following Jesus Today

And the editor of

Still Evangelical?: Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning

In this episode, we discuss the crisis of the credibility of evangelicalism in America.