Keynote
Ashley Null
Ashley Null has served as a chaplain for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. He is canon theologian for the Diocese of Western Kansas, visiting fellow at Cambridge, and visiting research fellow at Humboldt-Universitat in Berlin. Null is a recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and received his MDiv from Yale Divinity School and his PhD from Cambridge. He is one of the world’s foremost experts on Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation. His book, Thomas Cranmer’s Doctrine of Repentance — Renewing the Power to Love, was recently published by Oxford University Press. Ashley Null, has a long history as a chaplain to international athletes. His experience with athletes led to his writing Real Joy: Freedom to be Your Best.
Brian Habig
Brian Habig planted, and now pastors, Downtown Presbyterian Church in Greenville, South Carolina. He previously served as a campus minister with Reformed University Fellowship at Mississippi State University and Vanderbilt University. He is also the co-author of The Enduring Community, an introduction to ecclesiology. Brian earned his Masters in Divinity from Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, MO. He led break-out sessions at the Together for the Gospel Conference. Brian and his wife, Dana, have three children.
Workshop
Gordon Bals
Gordon Bals founded Daymark Pastoral Counseling in 1997. He holds an M.A. degree in Biblical Counseling (1993) from Colorado Christian University where he studied under Dr. Dan Allender and Dr. Larry Crabb. He holds a Doctor of Education in Pastoral Community Counseling (2004) from the University of Sarasota. Prior to founding Daymark Pastoral Counseling Gordon worked as an adolescent and family counselor and as an Assistant Pastor at a local church. Gordon is especially passionate about counseling those with marital difficulties, those who are trying to make room for troubles they did not plan on (death of a loved one, job loss, life transition) and/or those who are having a hard time integrating their faith into everyday life (feel distant from God, have questions for Him and feel like their faith does not ‘work’). Appreciating the profound link between love of God and your relationship with others Gordon does a variety of seminars that address the intersection of God, the important relationships in your life and the Gospel.
Mark Gignilliat
Mark Gignilliat was youth director at North Hills Community Church in Greenville, South Carolina before his doctoral studies. He has taught Hebrew, Old Testament Exegesis, and Biblical Theology at Beeson Divinity School since 2005. His research interests include the relationship between the testaments, and between exegesis and Christian dogmatics. Before coming to Beeson Divinity School, he taught at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford. Gignilliat published Paul and Isaiah’s Servants in 2007, and Karl Barth and the Fifth Gospel: Barth’s Theological Exegesis of Isaiah in 2009. He has published articles in Scottish Journal of Theology, Horizons in Biblical Theology, Westminster Theological Journal, Biblica, The Journal for Theological Interpretation, Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, and International Journal of Systematic Theology. Gignilliat is married to Naomi and they have three sons.
