Wes Vander Lugt
Bio: Wes is a theologian, writer, educator, nonprofit leader, and arts advocate with a passion for beauty, slowness, cultivation, and kinship. Wes teaches theology and directs the Leighton Ford Initiative in Theology, the Arts, and Gospel Witness at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Charlotte. He is also the co-founder of Kinship Plot, a community of learning and practice imagining and embodying resonant relationships of every kind. Wes holds a PhD in Theology, Imagination, and the Arts from the University of St Andrews and his publications include Beauty Is Oxygen: Finding a Faith that Breathes.