Mark DeVine serves as Associate Professor of Divinity at the Beeson Divinity School of Samford University in Birmingham where he teaches historical theology and doctrine. Dr. DeVine is the author of Bonhoeffer Speaks Today: Following Jesus as All Costs, RePlant: How a Dying Church Can Grow Again, Shalom Yesterday, Today, and Forever: Embracing All Three Dimensions of Creation and Redemption, and is an author at The Federalist, American Spectator, The Western Journal, and American Thinker. DeVine served as a missionary to Bangkok, Thailand, and has pastored churches in five states. While his home church is Hunter Street Baptist in Hoover, Alabama, he currently serves as Transitional Pastor of Smoke Rise Baptist Church in Smoke Rise, Alabama. He and his wife Jackie live are the parents of two grown sons.