Andy Crouch is an author, speaker, musician, and dad, whose work helps readers think about culture, creativity, and the gospel. In addition to his books Culture Making, Playing God, and Strong and Weak, his work has been featured in Time, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Lecrae's 2014 single “Non-Fiction.” He was executive editor of Christianity Today from 2012 to 2016 and is now senior strategist for communication at the John Templeton Foundation. He lives with his family in Pennsylvania.

Max Lucado is a preacher with a storyteller’s gift—a pastor’s heart and a poet’s pen.

Max’s sermons begin at home with the congregation at Oak Hills Church, which he has led for more than 25 years. It is in this setting that his stories are first told, from a pastor’s heart. Eventually some of these sermons and stories are refined and fashioned into books that are shared far beyond the walls of Oak Hills and the city limits of San Antonio, Texas. Max’s words have traveled around the world in more than 54 languages via more than 120 million individual products. Most of these products are books (92 million), which have now occupied spots on every major national bestseller list. Over the years Max Lucado has been featured in countless national media outlets, dubbed “America’s Pastor” by Reader’s Digest, and even named one of the most influential leaders in social media by The New York Times.

Max was born in a small town in West Texas, the youngest son of an oil field mechanic and a nurse. He grew up in church but as a teen took a different road, walking away from his parent’s faith. One starry summer night, after downing a six-pack of beer, Max began to wonder if there wasn’t more to life than parties and chasing pretty girls. Not long afterward, a Bible class at nearby Abilene Christian University stirred his heart again, drawing the young student into the unconditional love of God.

Max left West Texas with a master’s degree in Biblical Studies and a deep desire to share God’s love and mercy with others. When he landed in a small church near Miami, Florida, one of his duties as an associate pastor was to write the weekly church newsletter. It was then he discovered a powerful synergy between his passion for people, pastoral ministry, and writing.

Max and his wife Denalyn have three grown daughters. They live in Houston, Texas.

Their defenses of campus kangaroo courts are rife with transparently bad statistics.

Honestly, even for a person who’s been hardened by decades of campus ideological and legal battles, it’s hard to believe how thoroughly unhinged, how intellectually bankrupt is the argument against protecting due process on campus. Yesterday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced that the Trump administration would shortly begin a regulatory rulemaking process designed to protect college students from sexual assault while also protecting the fundamental constitutional rights of the accused.

This year, critics have been surprised by a host of faith-centric movies: Martin Scorsese’s Silence, biopic The Case for Christ, indie comedy The Resurrection of Gavin Stone, and record-breaking documentary In Our Hands, to name a few.

Now in theaters, the new film All Saints engages big questions against the small backdrop of a dying Episcopal church in rural Tennessee.

All Saints reflects a six-year investment by Sony Pictures, also behind the summer blockbuster Spider-Man: Homecoming. Sony’s Affirm Films label got its start a decade ago with Facing the Giants. Sony agreed to distribute the film, produced for only $100,000 by a local church.

As film-craft, the football drama wasn’t ground-breaking. By the end, the team is winning every game, a couple’s struggle with infertility miraculously ends, and the coach even gets a shiny new red pickup truck.