Our Guest speaker for this year's retreat will be Carolyn Custis James. Carolyn is an evangelical thinker who loves God enough to break the rules—rules of cultural convention which attempt to domesticate the gospel message of the Bible.

Carolyn is president WhitbyForum, a ministry dedicated to addressing the deeper needs which confront both women and men as they endeavor to extend God’s kingdom together in a messy and complicated world.

She is also founder and president of the Synergy Women’s Network, Inc.—a national organization for women emerging or engaged in ministry leadership. The Synergy Women’s Network sponsors annual Synergy conferences.

Carolyn has written a number of books including: When Life and Beliefs Collide: How Knowing God Makes a Difference; Lost Women of the Bible: The Women We Thought We Knew; The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules; and Half the Church: Recapturing God’s Global Vision for Women.

Carolyn serves as consulting editor for Zondervan’s Exegetical Commentary Series on the New Testament; a regular columnist for FullFill Magazine; contributing editor for Leadership Journal; and an advisory council member for Gifted for Leadership. She speaks regularly at church conferences, colleges and other Christian organizations both in the US and abroad and is a visiting lecturer at various theological seminaries.

A pastor’s daughter, Carolyn grew up in Portland, Oregon. She holds an MA in Biblical Studies. She and her husband, Frank, live in Boxford, Massachusetts. They have an adult daughter, Allison, who lives in Orlando, Florida.

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