Rev. Dr. Prof. David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University, where he has taught since 2007. He also serves as Chair of Christian Social Ethics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Senior Research Fellow at the International Baptist Theological Study Centre, where he supervises Ph.D. students from around the world. In 2026, he began an affiliation with the University of Oxford as Visiting Fellow at Regent’s Park College, Academic Visitor in the Faculty of Theology and Religion, and Visiting Fellow at the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life. A past president of both the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Christian Ethics, Gushee is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 32 books, including Kingdom Ethics, Changing Our Mind, Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies, After Evangelicalism, and Job in Exile: A Guide for Spiritual Refugees. An ordained minister, he regularly preaches and assists in worship in the Church of England and speaks in churches across the United States, especially among post-evangelical Christians. Over more than three decades as a teacher, scholar, writer, minister, and public Christian ethicist, he has mentored generations of students, contributed hundreds of essays and media interviews, and spoken internationally on religion, ethics, democracy, human rights, and public life. He and his wife, Jeanie, live in Atlanta, Georgia, and Chipping Campden, England; they have three adult children and three grandchildren.