Rich Villodas is the Brooklyn-born lead pastor of New Life Fellowship, a large, multiracial church with more than seventy-five countries represented in Elmhurst, Queens. He is also a key speaker for Emotionally Healthy Discipleship—a movement that has touched hundreds of thousands of people. Rich graduated with a BA in pastoral ministry and theology from Nyack College. He went on to…

Michael O. Emerson is the Harry and Hazel Chavanne Fellow in Religion and Public Policy at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. He has authored several award-winning books and articles on Christianity and race. His latest co-authored book is Kingdom Racial Change: Overcoming Inequality, Injustice, and Indifference (Eerdmans 2025). His talk will draw in part from…