Richard is founder, past pres­i­dent and cur­rent team mem­ber of Ren­o­varé. Hav­ing stud­ied at George Fox and Fuller The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary, Fos­ter has served as a pas­tor and taught world­wide on spir­i­tu­al for­ma­tion. Author of dozens of arti­cles and six books, includ­ing Cel­e­bra­tion of Dis­ci­pline, Richard con­tin­ues to write on the spir­i­tu­al life. He and his wife, Car­olynn, have two grown chil­dren, Joel and Nathan, nine grand­chil­dren, and live near Den­ver, Colorado.

Charles E. Moore is a mem­ber, teacher, and pas­tor of the Bruder­hof com­mu­ni­ty. He speaks and lec­tures in a vari­ety of con­texts. A writer for Plough Quar­ter­ly, he has also com­piled and edit­ed sev­er­al acclaimed books, includ­ing Called to Com­mu­ni­ty: The Life Jesus Wants for His Peo­ple; Provo­ca­tions: Spir­i­tu­al Writ­ings of Kierkegaard; Every­one Belongs to God: Dis­cov­er­ing the Hid­den Christ; and Bear­ing Wit­ness: Sto­ries of Mar­tyr­dom and Cost­ly Discipleship. 

Diet­rich Bon­ho­ef­fer (1906 – 1945) was a Ger­man Luther­an pas­tor, the­olo­gian, anti-Nazi dis­si­dent, and key found­ing mem­ber of the Con­fess­ing Church. His writ­ings on Chris­tian­i­ty’s role in the sec­u­lar world have become wide­ly influ­en­tial, and his book The Cost of Dis­ci­ple­ship has become a mod­ern classic.

Dal­las Willard (1935 — 2013) was Pro­fes­sor of Phi­los­o­phy at The Uni­ver­si­ty of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia and an ordained min­is­ter who spoke at church­es and Chris­t­ian orga­ni­za­tions world­wide. He was a found­ing mem­ber of Ren­o­varé. He wrote, among oth­ers, Ren­o­va­tion of the Heart, Hear­ing God, and Know­ing Christ Today. Dal­las is sur­vived by his wife Jane, son John, daugh­ter and son-in-law Becky and Bill Heat­ley, and grand­daugh­ter Laris­sa, who con­tin­ue his lega­cy and work.

With many oth­er authors as well.