Gavin Ortlund

Gavin Ortlund (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is a pastor, author, and apologist. He is president of Truth Unites, a ministry of theological education and apologetics, theologian-in-residence at Immanuel Church in Nashville, and visiting professor of historical theology at Phoenix Seminary. He previously served as senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Ojai, California. His books include Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals, Finding the Right Hills to Die On, Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't, Humility, and What It Means to Be Protestant, which won the Christianity Today 2024 Book of the Year award. He and his wife, Esther, have five children.