The Rev John Arthur Nunes, PhD, is a Lutheran pastor and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy. He has served as the President of Concordia College New York, as the President and CEO of Lutheran World Relief, and as a professor at Valparaiso University. Recent books are, with Alberto Garcia, Wittenberg Meets the World: Reimagining the Reformation from the Margins (2017) and Meant for More: In, With, and Under the Ordinary (2020). Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, he is a graduate of Concordia College, Ann Arbor MI (BA), Concordia Seminary, St Catharines, ON, Canada (MDiv), and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (ThM and PhD).
John is married to Monique Nunes, MA, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Concordia University Irvine, California. They have six children and thirteen grandchildren.
