Dr.
David Campbell (from Notre Dame’s website)
David
Campbell is the John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C. Associate Professor of Political
Science at the University of Notre Dame and the founding director of the Rooney Center
for the Study of American Democracy. He is the co-author (with Robert Putnam)
of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, author of Why We Vote: How Schools
and Communities Shape Our Civic Life and the editor of A Matter of Faith:
Religion in the 2004 Presidential Election. He has also co-authored and
co-edited books on civic engagement, school vouchers, and charter schools. In
addition, he has published articles in a number of scholarly journals on such
subjects as religion and politics, young people, schools, and civic engagement.
As an expert on religion, politics, and civic engagement, David has often been
featured in the national media, including the New York Times, USA Today,
Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time, NBC News, MSNBC, CNN, National
Public Radio, Fox News, and C-SPAN. His research has won awards from the
American Political Science Association, and has been funded by the National
Science Foundation.
Rev. Jay Winters
Jay Winters is the pastor and campus minister at University Lutheran
Church in Tallahassee, FL.
He has been in Tallahassee
since receiving his M. Div. from Concordia Seminary-St. Louis in 2007. This is
the second campus ministry Jay has worked with, as he served his vicarage in
2005 at First Lutheran in Gainesville, FL, home to the University of Florida’s
Lutheran campus ministry. He grew up in a missionary family in the Philippines and
has seen how God continues to use his life every day to reach His people with
the love of Christ.
Rev. Leonard Payton
Leonard
Payton is the pastor at St. John Lutheran Church
in Forest Park, IL. Prior to that he served as pastor at St. John Lutheran
Church in Horicon, WI,
from 2005-2010. Leonard received his Ph.D. in music composition from the
University of California-San Diego in 1988. He went on to serve as a
professional church musician in the Presbyterian Church in America in Northern California and Texas from 1991-2001.
Eventually he joined the Lutheran
Church, where he received
an M. Div. from Concordia Theological Seminary-Ft. Wayne in 2005 and began
serving as a pastor.This page will be updated for the 2012 conference at a later date when the speakers have been selected. Thank you.
