Contributor Mark DeVine teaches historical theology at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, in Birmingham, Alabama. He serves as teaching elder at Smoke Rise Baptist Church in Smoke Rise, Alabama, and as faculty sponsor for Samford’s Turning Point USA chapter. He formerly served as a missionary in Bangkok, Thailand. He is the author of "Bonhoeffer Speaks Today" and “Shalom Yesterday, Today, and Forever."