Jon R. Kershner, Ph.D. (2013, University of Birmingham) is Honorary Researcher in Quaker Studies at Lancaster University and Visiting Assistant Professor in Theology and History of Christianity at Pacific Lutheran University. His publications include, John Woolman and the "Government of Christ" A Colonial Quaker's Vision for the British Atlantic World (Oxford University Press, 2018), the co-authored Quaker Studies: An Overview, The Current State of the Field (Brill, 2018), and numerous articles on Quaker theology in journals such as Quaker Studies, Quaker Religious Thought, and Quaker History, and chapters on evangelicalism and global theology in The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism, and John Woolman's apocalypticism in Quakers and their Allies in the Abolitionist Cause, 1754-1808 (Routledge, 2015).