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Francis Chan (August 31, 1967) is an American preacher. He is the former teaching pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, CA, a church he and his wife started in 1994. He is also the Founder and Chancellor of Eternity Bible College and author of the best-selling book, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God, which came out in 2009. He released his [...]

David Platt (born 1979) is an American pastor. He is currently the head pastor of The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama, and he is also the author of the New York Times Best Seller Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream. Platt released his follow-up book, Radical Together: Unleashing the People of God for the Purpose of God in [...]

Victor is a dreamer. He blames it on cartoons, video games, and his mother’s cooking. A year ago, he became interested in business school programs around social enterprise. After researching typical MBA routes and realizing the prices and the options didn’t fit, he decided to create his own education around design, business, and social change [...]

  Glenn Kelman is the CEO of Seattle-based Redfin, an online real estate brokerage. He was raised in Seattle and graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1997, Kelman helped co-found Plumtree Software.         Take the Red Pill I wan to start with, where I got the courage to pursue my own [...]

Social entrepreneur and native Chicagoan “Nature does not create waste” Reimagining waste for a new economy i want to reflect nowhere our waste comes from, where it goes, and how we can reimagine what we can do with it. How did we arrive at this current relationship with waste? When we throw something away we [...]

  The year was 1991, and Phil was a newly married 25 year-old with no financial backing and no idea how his vegetables would ever see the light of day. Today, almost 50 million VeggieTales videos have been purchased and Phil’s faith-filled stories can be found in one-third of all American homes with young children. [...]

  Kyle Idleman is the Teaching Pastor at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, the 5th largest church in America, where he speaks to over 20,000 each weekend. He is the author and presenter of the award-winning video curriculum series “H2O: A Journey of Faith” as well as “The Easter Experience” and the “Not a Fan” book [...]

Makoto Fujimura is an artist, writer, and speaker who is recognized worldwide as a cultural shaper. A Presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts from 2003-2009, Fujimura served as an international advocate for the arts, speaking with decision makers and advising governmental policies on the arts. Till the Soil I am excited to [...]

  Anne Lamott writes and speaks about subjects that begin with capital letters: Alcoholism, Motherhood, Jesus.  But armed with self-effacing humor – she is laugh-out-loud funny – and ruthless honesty, Lamott converts her subjects into enchantment.  Actually, she writes about what most of us don’t like to think about.  She wrote her first novel for [...]

 Born in the coldest city in Japan and raised in the sweltering heat of Arizona, Isaac’s highly stylized, creative music videos for bands like Cage The Elephant, blink 182, Manchester Orchestra, and Lissie have earned acclaim and heavy airplay on music channels in the U.S. and abroad. His broadcast and viral video work for clients [...]