2009: Featured Speakers

Shane Hipps

Shane Hipps is pastor of Trinity Mennonite Church – a missional, urban, Anabaptist congregation in Phoenix, AZ. Before accepting a call as a pastor, he was a strategic planner in advertising where he worked on the multimillion dollar communications plan for Porsche. It was here that he gained expertise in understanding media and culture.

Shane is a sought-after speaker, a contributor to Leadership Journal, host of the “Third-Way Faith” podcast on wiredparish.com, and author of The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture: How Media Shapes Faith, the Gospel, and Church. For more information visit www.shanehipps.com

Regina Shands Stoltzfus

Regina Shands Stoltzfus has been Adjunct Professor at Goshen College since 2004. Her area of interest is in class, race and gender issues. She is currently working on a doctoral dissertation on African-American women in Mennonite-affiliated churches and is a student in theology, ethics and contemporary culture at Chicago Theological Seminary.

She has been associate pastor in an urban setting and was Minister of Urban Ministries for Mennonite Mission Network. Among her publications is her Master’s thesis: “The God Who Sees Me” - An intertextual reading of the Hagar accounts in Genesis 16 and 21 and The Color Purple by Alice Walker.