Ellen Blue is the Mouzon Biggs, Jr. Professor of the History of Christianity & United Methodist Studies at Phillips Seminary. She is the author of St. Mark’s and the Social Gospel: Methodist Women and Civil Rights in New Orleans and co-author with Charles M. Wood of Attentive to God: Thinking Theologically in Ministry. Her book, In Case of Katrina: Reinventing the Church in Post-Katrina New Orleans, is just out from Wipf & Stock.