Phil Snider

Phil Snider is an award-winning author, pastor, public theologian, and teacher. His books include Preaching as Resistance, Justice Calls, Preaching After God, The Hyphenateds, and, with Emily Bowen, Toward a Hopeful Future (winner of the 2011 Mayflower Award for Best Book in Church and Society). He is perhaps best known for a speech he gave on equal rights for LGBTQ+ persons, which has been viewed on YouTube over five million times. In addition to providing religious commentary in various local and national media outlets, including NPR affiliates and nationally-syndicated radio and television programming, his work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Religion Dispatches, Slate, and USA Today. Phil teaches religious studies at Missouri State University and Drury University and has been a pastor at Brentwood Christian Church in Springfield, MO since 2003.