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124 | Ken Derry et al. www.jrfm.eu 2017, 3/1, 123–155 Daniel White hodge is the Director of the Center for youth Ministry studies and Asso- ciate Professor of youth Ministry & Popular Culture at North Park University in Chica- go. Currently, his research and community engagement explore the intersections of faith, critical race theory, justice, Hip Hop culture, and emerging multi-ethnic millenni- al culture. his three current books are heaven has A Ghetto: the Missiological Gospel & theology of tupac Amaru shakur (VDM 2009), the soul Of hip hop: rimbs, timbs, & A Cultural theology (iVP 2010), and hip hop’s hostile Gospel: A Post soul theologi- cal exploration (Brill, Academic 2017). he is currently working on a co-authored book with irene Cho (fuller youth institute) titled, Between God & Kanye: youth Ministry in a Post-Civil rights era (iVP Academic 2018). Laurel Zwissler is an assistant professor of religion at Central Michigan University, UsA. her forthcoming book, religious, feminist, Activist: Cosmologies of intercon- nection (University of Nebraska), focuses on global justice activists and investigates contemporary intersections between religion, gender, and politics, relating these to theoretical debates about religion in the public sphere. she is now building on this work with ethnographic research within the North American fair-trade movement, as well as occasional visits with contemporary Witchcraft communities. stanley talbert is a Ph.D. student at Union theological seminary in the City of New york where he studies systematic theology and African American studies. he is the author of “Unveiling Radical Love: A Theological Reflection on Radical Love in the Age of ferguson,” in reconciliation reconsidered (Abilene Christian University Press, 2016). He has published articles on theology, race, and culture in The Huff- ington Post, ebony, and the African American Lectionary. stanley hopes to leave a legacy of radical love that witnesses to God, his family, and the profound traditions of freedom fighters. Matthew J. Cressler is assistant professor of religious studies at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. His first book, Authentically Black and Truly Catholic: the rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration (forthcoming NyU Press, No- vember 2017), tells the story of African Americans who converted to Catholicism in the first half of the twentieth century and then, beginning in the late 1960s, initi- ated a revolution in Catholic identity and practice as they participated in the Black Power movement. His teaching interests include African American religions; religion in America; Black Nationalism; American identity; race, religion and politics; and the- ory in the study of religion. Jon ivan Gill is an avid scholar of Whiteheadian process thought, metaphysics, cultural studies, aesthetics, existentialist philosophy, and constructive & secular theology. his creative tangent ranges from underground hip-hop culture to cryptic lyrics he pens in rap, poetry, journal refereeing, book reviews, and academic essays & critiques. He earned his PhD. candidate in “Philosophy of religion and theology” at Claremont Graduate University. Jon’s staunch support of a truly philosophical and theological trans-disciplinary discourse involves the inclusion of everything from aesthetic athe- ism and religious pluralism to subversive use of the arts.