James Spencer PhD

Dr. James G. Spencer helps Christians question the assumptions of our culture, even our Christian culture, by reading Scripture as the final authority for life and faith. Through Thinking Christian, he offers calm, thoughtful, theological conversations that unsettle convention and cultivate conviction, so that God's people don't settle for a narrower vision than God's word offers.

James is President of the D. L. Moody Center and the author of Serpents and Doves: Christians, Politics, and the Art of Bearing Witness and the forthcoming Digital Discernment (InterVarsity Press, 2027). His other books include Useful to God, Christian Resistance, Thinking Christian, A Praying People (co-editor/contributor) and Trajectories (co-author). His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, Fox News, and The Christian Post.

He holds a PhD in Theological Studies (Old Testament) from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and an MA from Wheaton College.