Mike Smith is a PhD student at Fuller Theological Seminary with an emphasis in systematic theology. Having earned an MDiv at George W. Truett Theological Seminary (Baylor University), he is also an ordained Baptist minister who has served in a variety of church settings. With a special interest in ecclesiology, he is working to understand unity across radical difference in the faith. An article of his along these lines entitled “The Church in the Pluriverse: Open Orthodoxy for Worldwide Communion” is forthcoming in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies.