Who’s behind ThinkChristian? Here’s a bit of info about the Think Christian gang, some in their own words:

Amy Adair
Amy lives in Lombard, Illinois. She is a mother, a wife, a writer, an editor, and a Jesus follower. She has written children’s books, a teen magazine column, interviews, and adoption applications. She is the proud mother to two boys who are 7 and 4.  Her latest adventure led her to Beijing, China, with her husband Jonathan this summer. There they met their newest addition to the family, a two year old little girl. Amy is currently working a children’s book about adoption. You can read about her life, faith, and the ups, downs, and joys of motherhood at www.1001tears.blogspot.com.

Nathan Bierma
Nathan is a writer. That’s the best way to sum it up. He loves words, language, theology, journalism, politics, web design, sports, and architecture, to name a few—and at one time or another has considered a career related to each. He is trying not to become a pastor, but fears God won’t let him off the hook that easily. Currently he works as Communications and Research Coordinator for the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and contributing writer to the Chicago Tribune, for which he wrote the “On Language” column from 2004-2008.  His website is www.nbierma.com. He is also contributing editor to Books & Culture magazine and author of Bringing Heaven Down To Earth: Connecting This Life to the Next. All of which he does in his spare time away from his first loves, his only true full-time jobs: being a husband to Andrea and a father to Benjamin.

Jerod Clark
Jerod is Colorado kid who now calls the Chicago area home.  He currently works for Back to God Ministries heading up a project to help local congregations use media better.  Jerod is also serving as the moderator for Think Christian. Before entering ministry work, Jerod spent nearly six years working as a TV reporter in Joplin, MO and Little Rock, AR. He’s married to his beautiful wife Sarah.

Michael Geertsma
Michael is a West Michigan native now living in Chicago.  He works for Back to God Ministries International as a producer on two programs: Spotlight, a radio program for people who speak English as a second language, and Walk The Way, a daily radio spot and video blog that challenges Christians to actively engage their faith.  Michael completed his BAS in Communication at Calvin College in May, 2006 and married his wife, Kristin, a week after graduation.

Todd Hertz
Todd is the E-Marketing Manager for ReFrame Media. That basically means he works to build online relationships plus develop web and social media strategies. He formally worked as managing editor of Ignite Your Faith magazine and associate online editor for Christianity Today. He is the co-author of The unGuide to Dating (Revell, 2006) and the general editor of Zondervan’s Teen Quest Bible coming in 2011. Todd keeps busy reviewing movies for ChristianityTodayMovies.com and working as a volunteer youth worker.

Mary Hulst
Mary Hulst is a preacher with a pastor’s heart. She spent 8 years serving as the senior pastor at Eastern Avenue Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, before leaving to pursue a Ph.D. in communication ethics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her bachelor’s degree is in classical studies at Calvin College, and her Master of Divinity was granted by Calvin Theological Seminary. Mary taught for a year in the Communications Arts and Sciences Department at Calvin College before joining the Calvin Theological Seminary faculty in the summer of 2007.

At her interview before the Synod of the CRC, Mary said that “preaching changes the world!” It is her fervent belief in the power of the gospel to change people’s lives that motivates her to train the next generation of preachers.

“Watching students deepen in their love for scripture and grow in their ability to preach is a great joy. I can’t wait to see how God will use these amazing people to build his kingdom and change the world.”

Bethany Keeley
My name is Bethany, and I am a punctuation celebrity.  No, that was never my childhood answer to the question “what do you want to be when you grow up?”  Somehow fashion designer, president and princess made it on that list though.  Anyway, somehow I became perhaps most notable for my relationship to quotation marks.  You may have read an article about my blog in your local paper, when the AP covered it. Or maybe you saw it more recently in an article on MSNBC.com.  All this to say, the blog is popular, and you may have heard of me from that if you don’t know me in person.

What else, you might ask? More things than I can probably do at once: a servant of God, a writer, a scholar, a public intellectual, a community member, politically active, a better musician.  Right now, I’m studying at the University of Georgia for my PhD in Speech Communication.  My area of specialty is Rhetorics of Christianity.

In my scholarship I explore some questions that my undergraduate schooling at Calvin College taught me to ask: what kind of Christians do various rhetorical structures encourage us to be? What other ways of being Christian or thinking about Christianity might be valuable?  I try to bring this kind of thinking with me as a worship leader in my church here in Athens, as well. I usually learn that putting things into practice is always more complex than you think.

David Ker
David Ker lives in the beautiful country of Mozambique where he has worked since 1998 on the Nyungwe Bible translation. His current role with Wycliffe Bible Translators is in ensuring that Scripture and others literature for ten different languages are available to Mozambicans through print, audio and Internet. David’s current interests include the globalization of Christianity and the Bible of the future. David has blogged since 2005 at lingamish.com. He and his wife Hilary try to maintain control over four rowdy children.

Steven Koster
Combining ordained ministry with twenty years of media experience, Steven Koster heads ReFrame Media, the English language ministry of Back to God Ministries International, a media ministry which presents the gospel through media around the the world in nine languges. Previously, Steven was a software Senior Product Manager, corporate Media Producer, and non-profit founder. He holds an M.Div from Calvin Theological Seminary and an MA in Telecommunication from Michigan State. Steven lives in Tinley Park, Illinois with his wife and three children.

Josh Larsen
Josh Larsen is the movie critic for a group of Chicago-area newspapers, including the SouthtownStar. A member of Christ Community Church in Lemont, he lives in the Chicago suburbs with his wife and two daughters. You can read more of his work at LarsenOnFilm.com.

Steve Matheson
Steve Matheson is an associate professor of biology at Calvin College and a permanent visiting scientist  at the Van Andel Research Institute. Both are in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  He’s originally from Arizona and came to Grand Rapids from Boston. (His Ph.D. is in neuroscience from the University of Arizona and he was a research fellow at Massachusetts General Hosptial/Harvard Medical School before coming to Calvin.) Steve’s research is best described as developmental cell biology with an emphasis on nerve cells.  He runs a blog called Quintessence of Dust.  His wife Susan is a writer and editor.

Paul Vander Klay
Paul is the pastor of the Living Stones Christian Reformed Church in Sacramento, California.  He grew up in Paterson, NJ in an urban church planted by his father.  He is a graduate of Calvin College and Calvin Seminary and spent 6 years as a missionary in the Dominican Republic.  He likes playing with technology and theology on his blog and Twitter. Paul says he gets excited talking about the end of the age of decay, creation 2.0 and being a gospel word gardener of the age to come.