John Seel

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John Seel is a cultural renewal entrepreneur—putting legs on visions that foster human flourishing and the common good. John's career combines business, education, theology, and cultural sociology. He was actively involved in the founding of The Williamsburg Charter, The Trinity Forum, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and The Cambridge School of Dallas.

Seel is a contributing editor to Critique magazine as well as The Journal, a publication of the Society for Classical Learning. He is the author of several books, including Parenting Without Perfection: Being a Kingdom Influence in a Toxic World. His most recent book, Special Forces in Kingdom Service: The Calling of Prophetic Schools will be published in 2009 by Canon Press.

He is a production and viral marketing consultant in the entertainment industry working on documentaries, commercial films, and Broadway theater. He worked with Walden Media/Bristol Bay Productions on Amazing Grace and is currently a consulting producer on Angels: The Musical, a Broadway musical in development.

John has a B.A. in history, business, and philosophy from Austin College; an M.Div. from Covenant Theological Seminary; and Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland (College Park). He, and his wife Kathryn, are Kuyperian Anglo-Catholics living in Cohasset, Mass.