Author

Dustin D. Benac (ThD, Duke University) teaches at Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary as the Director and co-founder for the Program for the Future Church. His latest book, Adaptive Church: Collaboration and Community in a Changing World, explores what it takes for communities of faith and leaders to navigate organizational change. He is the co-editor of Crisis and Care: Meditations on Faith and Philanthropy, co-editor of The Air We Breathe: Mediations on Belonging (forthcoming) and the Editor of Practical Theology, an international and interdisciplinary journal.

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.