Press Speakers

Dr. Calvin B. DeWitt
Professor of Environmental Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
President, AuSable Institute of Environmental Studies
President, Academy of Evangelical Scientists and Ethicists
Dr. Cal DeWitt biography

Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz
President, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Wyncote, PA (Philadelphia)
Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz biography

Paul Gorman
Executive Director
National Religious Partnership for the Environment
Paul Gorman biography

Dr. Roald Hoffmann
Nobel Prize Laureate
Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor in Humane Letters
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
Dr. Roald Hoffman biography


Rabbi Amy Levin
Temple Torat Yisrael
Cranston, Rhode Island
Rabbi Amy Levin biography

Lisa and Mark Sukut
Co-pastors of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship
Bozeman, Montana
Lisa and Mark Sukut biographies

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Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz is president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He received his B.A. in Religion (magna cum laude) from Tufts University, as well as an M.A. in Hebrew Letters degree and rabbinic ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and he has studied at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University in New York. He was rabbi of Congregation Bnai Keshet in Montclair, NJ, from 1988 to 2002. During his tenure, Rabbi Ehrenkrantz helped pioneer the creation of an innovative family education program currently used in more than twenty congregations throughout the United States. He is past president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association.

 

Paul Gorman is founder and executive director of the National Religious
Partnership for the Environment, a post he has held since 1993. A graduate
of Yale and Oxford universities, Gorman worked in the U.S. Congress and
served as press secretary and speechwriter to U.S. Sen. Eugene McCarthy in
the 1968 presidential campaign. He has taught at the City University of New
York, Sarah Lawrence College and Adelphi University, co-authored the 1984
best-selling inspirational book How Can I Help?, and hosted the public radio
program Lunch Pail on WBAI-FM in New York City for 29 years. From 1985 to
1991, Gorman served as the Cathedral of St. John the Divine's vice president
for programs, overseeing community-based initiatives and helping organize
international conferences on religion and the environment in Assisi, Oxford
and Moscow. In 1999, he received the Heinz Award for the Environment.

 

Mark and Lisa Sukut co-pastor the Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Bozeman, Montana, a church they founded in 1995. The Vineyard is a worldwide church planting movement. The following from the Vineyard USA website says "the Vineyard story is about ordinary people who worship and serve an extraordinary God. The Vineyard is simply one thread in the rich tapestry of the historic and global Church of Jesus Christ. But it is a thread of God's weaving." Mark holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Sioux Falls, a Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary and is currently a Doctor of .Ministry candidate in Marriage and Family Counseling at Denver Seminary. Lisa received a BA in History from California Polytechnic University, Pomona. In addition to pastoring duties, she works part time at Livingston-Park County Public Library. She is a member of
Montana Library Association. Mark and Lisa have four children. As a family, they love to recreate in the great outdoors of Montana and experience the fact that "the heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands" (Psalms 19:1).