James Spencer earned his PhD in theological studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is the author of multiple books including Christian Resistance: Learning to Defy the World and Follow Christ and Thinking Christian: Essays on Testimony, Accountability, and the Christian Mind . He currently serves as president of D. L. Moody Center and host of Useful to God , a radio program and podcast. Varma Ashish (PhD, Wheaton College) has been a professor of theology in Chicago for ten years. His dissertation work explored theological grounding for virtue ethics. In recent years, his research has sat at the intersection of theological engagement with race and ecology, writing and speaking on both.