Governance Institute

Dr. Timothy Dalrymple was raised in nondenominational evangelical churches in California. A national champion gymnast, he went to Stanford University where he suffered a broken neck his sophomore year. Then followed years at Stanford, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where he made suffering a key theme of his research. Dalrymple helped to launch Patheos.com, an online marketplace of religious ideas, which became the world’s largest platform for multi-religious conversation. .

In May 2019 he became President and CEO of Christianity Today. In addition he now carries the title Editor in Chief for the magazine. Tim leads a dynamic team, working together to expand the CT reach through media and resources both in the United States and around the World.

Tim is married to Joyce and they have three daughters, Sophia, Sarah, and Hannah.

Steve serves the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust as the CEO Emeritus. The Trust is a private foundation which seeks to nurture and enrich the educational, spiritual, cultural, and social life of individuals, families, and communities with particular interest in the Pacific Northwest.

Steve is an alumnus of McMurry University, Asbury Theological Seminary, St. Andrews University, and the University of Michigan. He did post-grad work at Hebrew University and Harvard University and served as a visiting scholar at Oxford University. He is a widely published author and speaker and has served in a number of leadership and board roles in community, education, and professional organizations.

Steve and his wife Thanne, a professional speech pathologist, have four children, three grandchildren, and share their home with Cooper, a fun-loving yellow lab.

Shirley Mullen served 15 years as President of Houghton College, Houghton, N.Y., retiring in May 2021. She has spent four decades in the work of faith based liberal arts education. Prior to becoming Houghton’s president, she served at various times as a classroom professor, chief academic officer and residence life director. She is an avid life-long learner with earned doctorates in both history and philosophy, focusing in her studies on the Enlightenment period and its complex impact on the Modern World, on liberal learning, and on our understanding of the human condition.  

As President Emerita, she continues to speak, write, and consult, as well as to encourage and develop the next generation of leaders through mentoring and serving on the boards of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, Jericho Road Community Health Center, the National Association of Evangelicals, Fuller Seminary, and the First Amendment Partnership.

Philip Ryken is the eighth president of Wheaton College. Following his graduation from Wheaton in 1988, Dr. Ryken earned advanced degrees from Westminster Theological Seminary and the University of Oxford. He preached at Philadelphia’s Tenth Presbyterian Church from 1995 until his appointment at Wheaton in 2010.

President Ryken has published more than 50 Bible commentaries and other books including Liberal Arts for the Christian Life and Christian Worldview: A Student’s Guide. He serves as a board member for The Gospel Coalition, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the Lausanne Movement. He and his wife Lisa have five children, including two Wheaton students and two Wheaton alumni.

Andrew Westmoreland’s career in higher education spans 43 years, including a combined total of 23 years as president of two institutions, Samford University in Alabama and Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas. His degrees are in political science and higher education. Westmoreland served as chair of the Board of Trustees for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and in 2022 he received the Eileen Tosney Award for Career Leadership in Higher Education, the AAUA’s highest individual recognition. Jeanna, his wife of 42 years, is also a career educator, having served as Chair of the Arkansas State Board of Education.

Craig Wood is an attorney, law professor and college trustee with 38 years of legal experience practicing education law.  Craig was a partner in the international law firm McGuireWoods LLP until his recent retirement, where he served as Chair of the Education Law Team. Craig is an Adjunct Professor at Washington and Lee University Law School, where he teaches “The Law of Higher Education,” and for 30 years was an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia Law School teaching “Trial Advocacy.”  Craig has served as President of the Education Law Association and has been published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA).  Craig serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Covenant College, a CCCU member, and is an elder at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Amos Yong is Professor of Theology and Mission, and Dean of the School of Mission and Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. His graduate education includes degrees in theology, history, and religious studies from Western Evangelical Seminary (now Portland Seminary) and Portland State University, both in Portland, Oregon, and Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, and an undergraduate degree from Bethany University of the Assemblies of God. Licensed as a minister with the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, he has also authored or edited dozens of scholarly volumes. He and his wife, Alma, have three children and five grandchildren. Amos and Alma reside in Pasadena, California.