Rev. Marjorie Thompson

Rev. Marjorie Thompson is an ordained Presbyterian minister and Director of Pathways in Congregational Spirituality at The Upper Room.  She is a gifted and sought after teacher, retreat leader, and writer.  She also serves as the Spiritual Director for the Companions in Christ series, and has been involved in every dimension of the Companions movement, including much of the writing and training.  Thompson is the author of Family the Forming Center (Upper Room Books) and the best-selling Soulfeast (Westminister/John Knox Press).

Rev. Janet Wolf

An ordained elder in the UMC and community activist, Rev. Wolf has served as a local church pastor and as Director of Public Policy and Community Outreach with Religious Leaders for a More Just and Compassionate Drug Policy, a national interfaith coalition working on harm reduction, alternatives to incarceration and restorative justice.   She is currently appointed to American Baptist College, a historically black four year college that was home to more of the national civil rights leaders than any other college in the country, and is part of a teaching team working with Vanderbilt Divinity School to provide seminary courses taught at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution with half of the students coming from inside the prison and half from the divinity school and community.  Wolf also teaches at the Charles Bass Correctional Facility Annex, piloting an "inside-out" course to explore criminal justice issues and effective reentry support teams, and is a partner in the Living Room, a community of folks living on the streets, providing safe space for conversation, community and retreats; and Hobson United Methodist Church, a community connected, multiracial, intentionally inclusive, reconciling congregation in Nashville.  Known for working with clergy, congregations, seminaries and communities across the U.S. and Canada, Janet is also beginning her seventh year as a partner with the Nehemiah Project, a Methodist community economic development effort in Ivory Park, South Africa.