Senior Fellows

David Mahan
Executive Director, Rivendell Institute
Senior Fellow, Rivendell Center for Theology and the Arts
Research Interests: Religion and Literature; Theological Poetics; Christianity and Contemporary Culture

Rick Schneider
Senior Fellow, Center for Religion and Civil Society
Research Interests: Sociology of Religion; Civil Society Theory; Comparative Civil Religion

C. Donald Smedley
Vice President, Rivendell Institute
Senior Fellow, Center for Track Two Diplomacy & Religious Freedom
Research Interests: Politics and Religion; Religious Freedom; Role of Religion in the Public Square; Islam and Christianity; Natural Law Theory; Privileged Status of Scientific Knowledge

Tanya Walker
Senior Fellow, Rivendell Center for Theology and the Arts
Research Interests: Death Studies; Ephemeral Art; Theology and the Arts
Associate Fellows

Jon Hinkson
Associate Fellow
Research interests: Church History
Adjunct Fellows

Jim Ehrman
Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs
Asst. Professor of Leadership and Culture
Evangelical Seminary

Greg Ganssle
Professor of Philosophy
Talbot Dept. of Philosophy
Biola University