Dr. Forrest E. Harris, Sr
Dr. Forrest E. Harris, Sr. is president of American Baptist College. With twenty-eight years in theological education and as director of Black Church Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Professor Forrest E. Harris has become nationally recognized as being one of the most progressive scholars, theological educators and visionary for prophetic Christianity in the…...
Honorable Rev. Wendell L. Griffen
Wendell L. Griffen is an Arkansas lawyer, jurist, legal educator, business leader, ordained Baptist minister, and public speaker. Born in Prescott, Arkansas, Judge Griffen attended the University of Arkansas School of Law from August 1976 through May 1979, when he received the Juris Doctor degree. While in law school, he…...
Rev. Dr. James Forbes Jr.
Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr. was born on September 6, 1935 in Burgaw, North Carolina to James A. Forbes, Sr. and Mabel Clemons Forbes. Forbes was raised as one of eight children in Raleigh, North Carolina. He received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Howard University in Washington, D.C.…...
Rev. Martin L. Espinosa
Rev. Martin L. Espinosa is Senior Pastor of the Ray of Hope Community Church in Nashville, TN, which he co-founded in 1997 with his wife Rev. Dr. Renita Weems. They co-pastor the church together in Nashville. Ray of Hope’s commitment is to be a community church with a global outreach…...
Rev. Dr. Valerie Bridgeman
Rev. Dr. Valerie Bridgeman is the Founder and President of WomanPreach!, Inc., the premiere non-profit organization that brings preachers into full prophetic voice around issues of equity and justice both in the pulpit and in the public arena. Her mission is to produce a network of preaching women and men…...
Rev. Traci Blackmon
Rev. Traci Blackmon is the executive minister of Justice & Local Church Ministries for The United Church of Christ and senior pastor of Christ The King United Church of Christ in Florissant, MO. Initially ordained in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. Blackmon served in various ministry capacities for 9…...