Author

Cristin Cooper is owner of Coop’s Soups and a licensed local pastor in the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church, focusing on Fresh Expressions. She holds a Master of Divinity degree from Wesley Theological Seminary. Coop’s Soups is soup to share and an awesome way to make friends and fight off loneliness. For Cristin, in getting to know our neighbors, we get to know more of who God is and how God is calling us to live in that moment.

F. Douglas Powe, Jr., is director of the Lewis Center for Church Leadership and holds the James C. Logan Chair in Evangelism (an E. Stanley Jones Professorship) at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. 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.