Dr. Mandy Smith is a pastor, award-winning author, artist and speaker. She is a leading voice for Missio Alliance and the author of five books, most recently Confessions of an Amateur Saint (NavPress, 2024). Her books have been named best of the year by Missio Alliance, Leadership Journal, Missio Alliance, The Englewood Review, and Hearts and Minds Bookstore, and short-listed for the Australian Christian Book of the Year. She teaches DMin students at The Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination. Mandy and her husband Jamie, a New Testament professor, live in their parsonage where the teapot is always warm. See more at www.TheWayisTheWay.org.