Craig Hovey is Associate Professor of Religion at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio and is executive director of the Ashland Center for Nonviolence. He is the author of numerous books including Bearing True Witness: Truthfulness in Christian Practice, Nietzsche and Theology, To Share in the Body: A Theology of Martyrdom for Today’s Church, Speak Thus: Christian Language in Church and World, Unexpected Jesus: The Gospel as Surprise, and co-editor of An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology.