Who We Are

This team is dedicated to lending their time, expertise, and resources to the Post Evangelical Collective so leaders and churches can connect and grow.

To get in touch with someone on the team, please contact us.

Working Board

Keri Ladouceur

Executive Director, Co-Founder,
and Board Member

  • Keri Ladouceur is a pastor, teacher, incessantly curious question asker, and bridge building peacemaker. She believes the fullness of the gospel is liberative good news for all of creation and longs to cultivate new faith spaces of mutuality and flourishing for all people.

    She is founder of New Ground Network, where she co-conspires with pastors, denominations, and organizational leaders to clarify and align around their purpose. One of her favorite roles is organizational coach where she is part dreamer, instigator, activator and team counselor. She has an MA in New Testament from Northern Seminary, and her imagination for the Beloved Community has been primarily shaped by her native heritage and liberation thinkers and theologians.

    She dreams of the Church being a life-giving community that activates the people of God to join Christ in the redemption and restoration of all things.

Matt Graybill


Board Member

Zach W. Lambert

Co-Founder and
Former Board Member

  • Zach W. Lambert is the Lead Pastor and co-founder of Restore Austin Church which has grown from a launch team of five people to over 1000 members since it opened in 2016. Born and raised in Austin, he holds a Bachelors of Science in Communication, a Masters of Theology, and is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Ministry at Duke Divinity School. Zach is also the author of the forthcoming book, Better Ways to Read the Bible, from Brazos Press.

    In addition to being the co-founder and board member of the Post Evangelical Collective, he also serves on the boards of the Hub Garage, the Austin Church Planting Network, and the Austin chapter of the Multi-Faith Neighbors Network.

    Zach and his wife, Amy, met each other in the 6th grade, fell in love at 17, and got married at 21. They love watching live music, discovering local Mexican food places, supporting Austin FC, and playing with their two boys. 

    Connect with Zach on Substack, Twitter or Instagram.

Mike Goldsworthy

Co-Founder and
Board Member

  • Mike Goldsworthy is the Founder and President of Live Contrarian, working with leaders who recognize that effective leadership flows out of healthy and whole lives. For 19 years, Mike served on staff with Parkcrest Christian Church in Long Beach, CA. The last 11 of those years, he served as the Lead Pastor, transitioning the church towards multiplication models of church planting and discipleship communities, while also shifting a largely homogenous church towards more diversity, helping to create experiences for the church to live in the tension of unity in the midst of diversity. As an overflow of some of his experience in church, alongside several other people, Mike helped to co-create the Post-Evangelical Collective.

    Currently he serves as an executive coach, facilitator and speaker, working with pastors and other leaders both inside and outside of the church who value health and wholeness as a part of their life and leadership.

Brit Barron


Board Member

  • Brit Barron is a speaker, teacher, and storyteller. She is a pastor at New Abbey church in Los Angeles, CA and the author of Do You Still Talk To Grandma: When The Problematic People In Our Lives Are The Ones We Love. Brit and her wife Sami live in LA and you can often find Brit ready to have conversations on the topics of spirituality, race, personal development and storytelling.

  • Matt Graybill helps mission-driven organizations align their values, culture, and resources so their mission becomes tangible in the lives of the people and communities they serve. With more than 20 years of experience in leadership, education, and ministry, he is passionate about creating healthy systems, cultivating strong teams, and helping communities flourish.

    Matt serves as Executive Pastor at South Bend City Church, where he provides leadership for ministry, operations, and organizational strategy. His ministry experience includes roles as a Community Life Pastor, Membership Pastor, Campus Pastor, and high school teacher and coach. He is a strategic leader and thoughtful connector who enjoys bringing people together, developing leaders, and turning vision into practical action.

    Matt and his wife, Beth, have been married for more than 25 years and have two adult sons, Kallan and Aaron. Together they love exploring new places, spending time outdoors, and building meaningful relationships in their community—especially when music, good food, or sports are involved. Matt is happiest with a good book, a great cup of coffee, a trail through the woods, or an unhurried conversation.

    Originally from Philadelphia, Matt has lived and served on the East Coast of Africa, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Southern California, and now South Bend, Indiana. Before entering pastoral ministry, he began his career as a health and physical education teacher and high school coach. He holds a master's degree in Educational Administration from Temple University and completed the Pastoral Leadership Program through Pepperdine University.

Fred Harrell

Director of New
Church Cultivation

  • Fred is a native of Central Florida and a graduate of the University of Florida (degree in economics) and Reformed Theological Seminary (graduate degree in theology and pastoral care). Fred founded City Church San Francisco in 1996 and led it to a congregation of over 1800 congregants. In 2015 Fred led City Church to an open and affirming position for those in the LGBTQ community. Over its 26 years, City Church San Francisco has created auxiliary ministries in Counseling, Education, and Social Transformation.

    Before coming to San Francisco, Fred founded and led a university-based ministry designed to answer the questions of thoughtful seekers and to equip Christians for transformational ministries in and through the church. Fred and his wife, Terely, have been married since 1986 and have four adult children ranging from 32 to 25 years old.

Wisdom Board

Angela Parker

  • Angela N. Parker is Assistant Professor of New Testament and Greek at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology. She received her B.A. from Shaw University, her M.T.S. from Duke Divinity School and her Ph.D. in Bible, Culture, & Hermeneutics from Chicago Theological Seminary. In 2018, Dr. Parker received the Journal for Feminist Studies in Religion’s ESF New Scholar Award (2nd Place) for her article “One Womanist’s View of Racial Reconciliation in Galatians.” The author of other articles and essays, Dr. Parker’s book entitled If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority was released on September 14, 2021 through Eerdmans Publishing. (See Amazon and Eerdmans) Dr. Parker is ordained with the Missionary Baptist Association of North Carolina.

    You can find Dr. Parker on Twitter at @anp22fab, Facebook @ Angela Parker, and through Mercer University.

David Gushee

  • Rev. Prof. Dr. David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University, Chair of Christian Social Ethics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Senior Research Fellow, International Baptist Theological Study Centre. He is also the elected past-president of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Christian Ethics. Dr. Gushee is the author, co-author, or editor of 27 books, including the bestsellers Kingdom Ethics and Changing Our Mind. His other most notable works are After Evangelicalism, Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust, Introducing Christian Ethics, and The Sacredness of Human Life. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading Christian moral thinkers. Gushee and his wife, Jeanie, live in Atlanta, Georgia.

    Learn more on his website.

Sally Gary

  • Sally Gary is founder and Executive Director of CenterPeace, Inc. a 501(c)(3) non-profit ministry dedicated to creating space for conversation about faith and sexuality, and building spiritual community for LGBTQ+ Christians.

    Growing up in Churches of Christ in the ‘60s & ‘70s, Sally has a great love for the spiritual heritage that first introduced her to Jesus and instilled in her a strong faith. But as a Gay Christian, she knows firsthand the pain of wrestling with her own faith and sexuality, and how difficult it can be to stay connected to church, to Christianity and to God with no support from your faith community. This is what drives Sally’s passion for CenterPeace, the ministry she founded in 2006 to create a place of belonging for LGBTQ+ Christians, encouraging them to hold onto faith and stay connected to God.

    Sally holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communication from Abilene Christian University and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Texas Tech University School of Law. A former high school speech and debate coach, trial lawyer and communication professor, Sally is a teacher at heart. Most of all, Sally is dedicated to serving queer youth, helping them know they are loved by God and that they always belong. Everywhere.

    The author of Affirming: A Memoir of Faith, Sexuality, and Staying in the Church, Sally currently resides in Dallas, Texas, with her wife, Karen Keen, and their miniature dapple dachshund, Rudy.

Walter Wilson

  • Dr. Walter Wilson has been an Air Force Officer, entrepreneur, and CEO. He also conducted intensive research culminating in earning his doctorate in ethics and theology. As a leader in the US Air Force, the Navigators, and the American Cancer Society, he honed his pedagogy as a subject matter expert including cyber policy, information technology, ethics, theology, health care, and business. 

    As a veteran, he is equipped with an in-depth understanding of belonging, emerging generations, and the future of work. He has a proven ability to think deeply about existentialism, sociology, and business while being able to influence performance, efficiency of massive systems, strategic plans, and culture.  

Peter Choi

  • Peter Choi is Executive Director of the Center for Faith and Justice, Associate Professor of American Christianity, and a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He has taught history of Christianity courses at Calvin Theological Seminary and the University of Notre Dame. Prior to that, he served for seven years as a pastor in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A historian of eighteenth-century North America, Peter’s areas of specialization include transatlantic revival religion, early evangelicalism, and world Christianity. His research has been funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Huntington Library, and the Library Company of Philadelphia.

Jonathan Merritt

  • Jonathan Merritt is one of America’s most popular writers on issues of faith and culture. He is author of several critically-acclaimed books, including Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words are Vanishing - and How We Can Revive Them, named “Book of the Year” by the Englewood Review of Books.

    Jonathan is an award-winning contributor for The Atlantic, a contributing editor for The Week, and a regular columnist for Religion News Service. He has published more than 3000 articles in respected outlets such as The New York Times, USA Today, Buzzfeed, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast and Christianity Today.

    In addition to the written word, Jonathan regularly contributes commentary to television, print, and radio news outlets. He has been interviewed by ABC World News, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, PBS, and CBS’ “60 Minutes.”

    Jonathan is also a sought after speaker at colleges, conferences, and churches on topics relating to spirituality, politics, and current events. Whether he is delivering an academic lecture or inspirational sermon, Jonathan’s captivating communication style and powerful presence are well-suited for intimate gatherings of hundreds or arenas filled with thousands.

    As a collaborator or ghostwriter, Jonathan has worked on more than 50 books, with several titles landing on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestsellers lists. Additionally, he trains hundreds of young writers through his Write Brilliant seminars and online course. He is often available for exclusive one-on-one coaching for a select number of advanced writers.

    Jonathan holds a Master of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a Master of Theology from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, and has done additional graduate work focused on ascetical theology at The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church.

    He is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades including the Wilbur Award for excellence in journalism, and the Religion News Association’s columnist of the year award.

    Jonathan currently happily resides in New York City. He is an aspiring dog dad, a college football fan, and intolerable before coffee.