Author

Celeste Kennel-Shank

Journalist

Celeste Kennel-Shank is an award-winning journalist and ordained Mennonite minister living in Chicago. She is pastor of an emerging community of faith called Moveable Feast and is the author of the book “What You Sow Is a Bare Seed: A Countercultural Christian Community During Five Decades of Change.” 

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