Brad R. Braxton and Anthony B. Pinn

Brad R. Braxton is President and Professor of Public Theology at Chicago Theological Seminary. He is the Founding Senior Pastor of The Open Church, a culturally inclusive congregation in Baltimore, MD. He is the author of three books. | Anthony B. Pinn is the Director of Research for the Institute for Humanist Studies in Washington, DC, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the inaugural Director of the Center for African and African American Studies at Rice University. The author/editor of over 35 books, Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religion at Rice University.