Ben Norquist (PhD, Azusa Pacific University) has served as director of grants and academics for Churches for Middle East Peace and as director of the Network of Evangelicals for the Middle East, where he helped American Christians pursue holistic peace with their neighbors around the world. Previously he also worked as a leader on the spiritual formation and community engagement team at Bryan College (Dayton, Tennessee) and with the Center for Faith and Innovation at Wheaton College (Illinois). He is a coauthor of Every Somewhere Sacred: Rescuing a Theology of Place in the American Imagination (June 2026).
Ben Norquist is a Christian writer, strategist, and organizer working at the intersection of faith, justice, and public witness. His work focuses especially on Christian responsibility amid war, displacement, and structural violence in Israel/Palestine, with particular attention to water, land, and the moral formation of American Christians.
Ben collaborates closely with Palestinian Christian leaders through initiatives such as Christ at the Checkpoint and Church at the Crossroads, helping center Palestinian Christian testimony in evangelical and ecumenical spaces that have often marginalized it. He has written for Sojourners, The Christian Century, and Religion News Service, and is currently developing longer-form work on land, place, and Christian moral imagination.
Alongside his writing, Ben works in strategy, operations, and resource development for mission-driven organizations, and has helped design national convenings and public declarations that mobilize Christian leaders toward accountability and action. He also engages in endurance-based fundraising as a form of embodied solidarity and public discipleship.
Ben brings to the Red Letter Christians community a commitment to Jesus’ teachings as a call to truth-telling, repentance, and costly love in public life.