Ben Mandrell is the 10th president of Lifeway Christian Resources. Prior to joining Lifeway, Ben pastored churches in Colorado and Tennessee. Ben and his family moved to the Denver area in 2014 to plant Storyline Fellowship in partnership with the North American Mission Board and First Baptist Church in Orlando, Fla. The church launched in February 2015 and grew to 1,600 in weekly attendance in four years. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. Mandrell and his wife, Lynley, have been married since 2001. The couple has four children: Ava, Max, Miles, and Jack.

Ken Braddy is the Director of Sunday School for Lifeway Christian Resources through which he champions Sunday School as a writer, blogger, and trainer. In addition to his role as Sunday School Director, Ken has led the team that produces Lifeway’s ongoing Bible studies for adults for the past 11 years (Explore the Bible, Bible Studies for Life, The Gospel Project, Masterwork, Baptist Adults, and more) which are used weekly by over 2.7M adults. Ken led the teaching ministry of his first church to grow from 44 to over 2400 members. The church he most recently served became Tennessee’s fastest-growing Sunday School pre-COVID.

Greg Love is a recognized expert in legal standards of care related to child sexual abuse, providing crisis response to ministries and churches nationwide. Litigating sexual abuse cases across the United States, his unique perspective provides valuable counsel to ministry and secular consulting clients, including the United States Olympic Committee, Awana International, Nazarene Global Ministries, Bob Jones University, Methodist conferences, and Baptist Conventions and Associations. Love serves as co-founder of MinistrySafe™ and Abuse Prevention Systems™. He has spoken as guest lecturer at Texas Wesleyan School of Law, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Dallas Theological Seminary.