Author

Adelle Banks is the co-author of Becoming A Future-Ready Church: 8 Shifts to Encourage and Empower the Next Generation of Leaders. She is projects editor and a national reporter at Religion News Service, which she joined in 1995. An award-winning journalist, she previously was the religion reporter at the Orlando Sentinel and a reporter at The Providence Journal and newspapers in the upstate New York cities of Syracuse and Binghamton. Her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, USA Today, Christian Century, Christianity Today, Jet, Sojourners, and Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly.

F. Douglas Powe Jr. is the president of Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, OK. Previously, he served as the director of the Lewis Center for Church Leadership. He is also co-editor with Jessica Anschutz of Healing Fractured Communities (Palmetto, 2024) and coauthor with Lovett H. Weems Jr. of Sustaining While Disrupting: The Challenge of Congregational Innovation (Fortress, 2022). His previous books include The Adept Church: Navigating Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Abingdon Press, 2020); Not Safe for Church: Ten Commandments for Reaching New Generations; New Wine, New Wineskins: How African American Congregations Can Reach New Generations; Transforming Evangelism: The Wesleyan Way of Sharing Faith; and Transforming Community: The Wesleyan Way to Missional Congregations.