Meet GFM’s Team

Leadership Council

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Mitch Randall

Mitch is the chief executive officer of Good Faith Media. Before joining GFM, he was the executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics. In addition, he pastored churches in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma for over 20 years, and he holds a Master’s of Divinity with Biblical Languages from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry degree from George W. Truett Theological Seminary. Mitch is a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation with his ancestors reaching back to the McIntosh and Childers clans. He is married to Missy Randall and they reside in Norman, Oklahoma. They have two adult sons.

Email: mitch@goodfaithmedia.org
Social media: Facebook  |  Twitter 

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Craig Nash

Craig Nash is the senior editor at GFM. He oversees all the daily news and opinion content and the publication of Nurturing Faith Journal. He previously was the media and communications director for the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty and has experience in ministry, retail book management, and student life. Craig holds degrees from East Texas Baptist University and Baylor’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary. He lives in Waco, Texas.

Email: craig@goodfaithmedia.org

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Starlette Thomas

Starlette is director of the Raceless Gospel Initiative, associate editor, the host of the Good Faith Media podcast “The Raceless Gospel,” and a member of the the Good Faith Media strategic advisory board. An ordained Baptist minister, Thomas has served previously in both local churches and denominational entities.

Email: starlette@goodfaithmedia.org
Social Media: Twitter

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Cliff Vaughn

Cliff is the media producer at GFM, where he has worked since 2000 making videos, feature and short documentaries, and podcasts. Cliff holds a BA from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, an MA from Auburn University and a PhD from Bowling Green State University. He and his partner, Mary, live in Nashville, Tennessee, and have two adult children.

Email: cliff@goodfaithmedia.org

Staff

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Tony Cartledge

Tony is contributing editor and weekly curriculum writer for Nurturing Faith Journal and Bible Studies, and as a weekly columnist for GFM. He has taught at Campbell University Divinity School since 2007, authoring both academic and popular articles, along with a dozen books as sole author and three others as co-author. Previously, Tony was Editor/President of the North Carolina Biblical Recorder, and served as pastor of five churches during a 26-year period. He has served actively with the Baptist World Alliance since 2005.

Email: tony@goodfaithmedia.org
Social Media: Twitter

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Missy Randall

Missy serves as the Experiences and Events Coordinator for GFM, though she prefers the title of Cruise Director (*cue Love Boat theme). When she is not busy working behind the scenes to help bring GFM experiences and projects to life, she enjoys basking in the glory of having raised two (mostly) delightful, well adjusted humans, baking, traveling, and lazy evenings by the pool.

Email: missy@goodfaithmedia.org

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Stephanie Brueggeman

Stephanie serves as our Information & Subscriptions Manager. She handles all things regarding our Nurturing Faith Journal subscription services and data management. Her background in Project Management, Research,Training, Compliance and CRM have made her an asset to GFM. In her free time Stephanie enjoys photography, listening to music, going on dates with her husband and binge watching tv shows. Stephanie currently resides in Texas with her husband, 2 children and their dog Luna.

Email: stephanie@goodfaithmedia.org

Subscriptions: subscriptions@goodfaithmedia.org

Cally Chisholm
Cally Chisholm

Cally is creative coordinator for publishing and marketing at GFM. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications from Missouri Southern State University and her Associate of Arts degree from Ozarks Technical Community College in Springfield, Missouri. Cally was an Ernest C. Hynds Jr. intern with GFM for the summer of 2021.

Email: cally@goodfaithmedia.org

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Roderious Phillips

Roderious Phillips is the Associate Media Producer for GFM. He is a native of Shaw MS. He graduated from Mercer University with a Bachelors in Journalism and a Minor in Media Studies. He loves filmmaking, photography and spending time with his dog Lailah.

Email: rod@goodfaithmedia.org

Contributing Correspondents

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Randall Balmer

Randall is an Episcopal priest who is the John Phillips Professor in Religion at Dartmouth College. He is the author of more than a dozen books, and his commentaries appear in newspapers across the country.

Email: Randall.Balmer@Dartmouth.edu

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Amy Butler

Amy is founder of Invested Faith. She previously served as pastor of several churches, including as the seventh senior minister and first woman at the helm of The Riverside Church in the City of New York. Amy holds degrees from Baylor University, the International Baptist Theological Seminary and Wesley Theological Seminary.

Email: amy@investedfaith.org

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Kali Cawthon-Freels

Kali is a bivocational pastor, writer and spiritual director based in Atlanta, Georgia, who currently serves as the Pastor of Congregational Care at The Faith Community and works as a Spiritual Director at Reclamation Theology. She is the author of Reclamation: A Queer Pastor’s Guide to Finding Spiritual Growth in the Passages Used to Harm Us (Nurturing Faith Books), and a contributing correspondent at Good Faith Media.

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Wendell Griffen

Wendell is pastor at New Millennium Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, a retired state court trial judge, a trustee of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, author of one book and three blogs, and a consultant on cultural competency and inclusion.

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Miguel De La Torre

Miguel is professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado, and a contributing correspondent at Good Faith Media.

Email: mdelatorre@iliff.edu

Justin Cox

Justin received his theological education from Campbell University and Wake Forest University School of Divinity. He is an ordained minister affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and enrolled in the doctor of ministry program at McAfee School of Theology. When not spending time with his spouse and daughters, he can be found writing and baking late into the night. He currently resides in New England with his family. His thoughts and reflections are his own.

Email: theblacksheepbaptist@gmail.com

 

Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Grace Ji-Sun Kim (Ph.D. University of St. Michael’s College) was born in Korea, educated in Canada and now teaches in the USA as Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religion, Richmond, Indiana. She is the author or editor of 24 books, most recently, When God Became White, Suffering God, Invisible, and Spirit Life.
 
Kim is the host of Madang podcast which is sponsored by the Christian Century. She blogs on her substack: Loving Life: Loving Life and has written for Huffington Post, The Nation, Sojourners, Baptist News Global, Faith and Leadership and TIME. Kim has appeared on MSNBC, PBS and C-Span. She has been a guest on BBC Radio, Soul Search Radio, WBEZ Radio, and Keep Hope Alive Radio. She is an ordained PC(USA) minister and enjoys being a guest preacher on most Sundays.

Interns

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Lillian Hawkins

Lilly is a Baylor student concentrating in Political Science, Professional Writing, and Religion. She is originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, and enjoys spending time with family and friends, reading, and running along the Brazos.