Author

Michael Woolf

Cofounder, Challenging Islamophobia Together Chicagoland

The Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf is an ordained American Baptist Churches USA and Alliance of Baptists pastor currently serving as the senior minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston in Evanston, Illinois. His first book, “Sanctuary and Subjectivity: Thinking Theologically About Whiteness and Sanctuary Movements,” is part of T&T Clark’s Studies in Social Ethics, Ethnography and Theologies series. He is co-founder of Challenging Islamophobia Together Chicagoland with his spouse, the Rev. Dr. Anna Piela.

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