Rich Villodas is the Brooklyn-born lead pastor of New Life Fellowship, a large multiracial church with more than seventy-five countries represented in Elmhurst, Queens. Rich holds a Master of Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary. He enjoys reading widely, preaching and writing on contemplative spirituality, justice-related matters, and the art of preaching. In addition to the Christianity Today award-winning The Deeply Formed Life, Rich is the author of Good, Beautiful and Kind: Becoming Whole in a Fractured World. He’s been married to Rosie since 2006 and they have two beautiful children, Karis and Nathan.