John Pavlovitz is a pastor and blogger from Wake Forest, North Carolina. His blog Stuff That Needs to Be Said is read and shared by a diverse audience of more than ten million people throughout the world. He serves on staff at North Raleigh Community Church, a growing, nontraditional Christian community dedicated to radical hospitality, mutual respect, and diversity of doctrine. He is the author of A Bigger Table and Hope and Other Superpowers.