Chris Rice

Chris Rice (DMin, Duke University) lives in New York City and serves as director of the United Nations Office of the Mennonite Central Committee, an international relief, development, and peace agency. He served as cofounding director of the Duke Divinity School Center for Reconciliation, and has worked through the academy, churches, and faith-based organizations to heal social conflicts in east Africa, Northeast Asia, and the American South. Earlier he spent 17 years in Mississippi serving in an interracial church-based community development organization called Voice of Calvary Ministries. Chris is coauthor of Reconciling All Things and More Than Equals, and author of Grace Matters, all of which won Christianity Today Book Awards. His new book is From Pandemic to Renewal: Practices for a World Shaken by Crisis (forthcoming May 2023). His writing has appeared in Christianity Today, Christian Century, and Sojourners. Chris and his wife Donna, a nurse, have three adult children. He is passionate about soccer, the outdoors, poetry, and spy novels.