When your event calls for trusted voices that speak to today’s audiences about discipleship, consider NavPress. Our stable of authors include many seasoned speakers who address spiritual formation from a variety of perspectives, including Christian leadership, prayer, evangelism, women’s issues, Christians in the workplace, overcoming addiction, sexual wholeness, parenting, processing grief—just to name a few.

This list of authors have been hand-picked in full confidence that they will deliver biblically sound, powerful messages that equip and inspire. Many of the authors have messages that would also work well delivered to secular audiences at bookstores, public libraries, and organizations.

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Amy Julia Becker

Amy Julia Becker is the author White Picket Fences, Small Talk, A Good and Perfect Gift (named one of the Top Ten Religion Books of 2011 by Publishers Weekly), and Penelope Ayers. Becker is a graduate of Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary. Her essays about faith, family, and disability have appeared on the Motherlode blog of the New York Times, USA Today, ABCNews.com, TheAtlantic.com, the Washington Post online, the Christian Century, Christianity Today, and the Huffington Post.

Amy Julia articulates the concept of privilege extremely well, humbly and with compassion. She weaves white privilege with faith and intersperses how having a child with a disability has affected her.

Tina Boesch

Tina Boesch is a writer, an editor, and a commissioned artist working in stained glass, as well as the author of Given. She has lived in seven countries on three continents. She recently returned with her husband and three children from living abroad, mostly in  Istanbul, Turkey. Tina is a thoughtful speaker, thoroughly prepared and delivers a sound message. She delights audiences and makes them uncomfortable at the same time, prompting them to change and grow in their relationship with God.

Kevin Butcher

J. Kevin Butcher was a pastor for over 25 years, many of those years at an urban church in the heart of Detroit. He recently started Rooted Ministries, a non-profit for isolated and challenged pastors. Through Rooted, Kevin speaks at churches across the country, and works part-time for the Evangelical Covenant Church denomination to shepherd pastors who are struggling.  His heart is to help people realize their emptiness and pursue healing through the love of God in Jesus Christ.

Kevin is the author of Choose + Choose Again: The Brave Act of Returning to God’s Love. Watch the book trailer here.

Jerome Daley

Jerome Daley is an executive coach with specialties in culture-crafting, communication and conflict, self-leadership, and team development. The founder and director of Thrive9 Solutions, he also helped found and lead Christian Coaching Magazine and has authored or contributed to ten books, including his latest release Gravitas: The Monastic Rhythms of Healthy Leadership.