Morehead, John W., II 1964-

PERSONAL:

Born March 8, 1964, in Stockton, CA; son of Barry and Aileen (a college administrator) Morehead; married Wendy Grice (a preschool caregiver), July 13, 1991. Ethnicity: "White non-Hispanic." Education: Salt Lake Theological Seminary, graduate study, 2005-07. Religion: Presbyterian.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Syracuse, UT. Office—Neighboring Faiths Project, P.O. Box 160611, Clearfield, UT 84016. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Neighboring Faiths Project, Sacramento, CA, associate director, 1996-2005, director of Utah office, Clearfield, 2005—. Consultant on the "missional church in the West"; Intercultural Institute for Contextual Ministry, research fellow; member of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization ("issue group on postmodern and alternative spiritualities").

MEMBER:

American Society of Missiology, American Academy of Religion.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Book of the year award, missions-global affairs category, Christianity Today, 2005, for Encountering New Religious Movements: A Holistic Evangelical Approach.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Irving Hexham and Stephen Rust, and contributor) Encountering New Religious Movements: A Holistic Evangelical Approach, Kregel Publications (Grand Rapids, MI), 2004.

Guest editor, International Journal of Frontier Missions, 1998; cofounder and coeditor of Sacred Scribes e-journal, www.sacredscribes.com. Contributor to print and online periodicals.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Christianity Today, July, 2004, Cindy Crosby, review of Encountering New Religious Movements: A Holistic Evangelical Approach, p. 67.