Dr. Joel C. Hunter is senior pastor of Northland, A Church Distributed, a 12,000-strong congregation that worships at several sites throughout Central Florida and worldwide via the Web. A respected leader in the Evangelical community, he serves on the boards of the World Evangelical Alliance (420 million constituents) and the National Association of Evangelicals (30 million members). Dr. Hunter served during the inaugural year on the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and is a spiritual advisor to President Barack Obama. He is the author of several books, including A New Kind of Conservative (Regal Books), which outlines a non-partisan approach to political involvement.