Tony and Felicity Dale are the authors of Simply Church (Karis Publishing, 2002). Both the Dales helped launch House2House.com, a support network for house churches. Tony agrees with George Barna’s theory that the current move toward house churches is a “third reformation” of Christianity. The Dales live in Austin, Texas.

Dan Hubbell is a member of a house church in Winnsboro, Texas, near Dallas. He also runs a house church support website called Church Restoration and has helped plant house churches in the U.S. and four foreign countries, including China. He says China has experienced the largest boom in house churches, with more than 100 million people meeting in […]

D. Allan Karr is director of the Nehemiah Project in church planting, a joint venture of the North American Mission Board and Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, where he is an associate professor of church planting. He lives in Denver.

Dan Mayhew is the editor of Church@Home Newsletter and a member of Summit Fellowships, a support network of house churches in Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, Wash. He is based in Portland, Ore., and writes a blog.

L. Michael White is a professor in classics and religious studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also director of the Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins. He is an expert on house churches in the first century.  He is also a frequent media commentator on biblical archaeology and appeared […]

David Greenberg is an associate professor of history, journalism and media studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Ronald Pagnucco is an associate professor of peace studies at College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn. His research interests include the connection between religion, politics and peace.

Steve Nolt is a history professor at Goshen College in Goshen, Ind., with formal training as a historian in the areas of U.S. immigration and ethnic history and American religious history. He also has significant personal and professional interest in Mennonite and Amish history and thought. An Anabaptist specialist, he has written extensively about Mennonites, Amish and […]

Maurice Isserman is a professor of history at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., and co-author of America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s. He is regarded as one of the leading historians on the era.