About the Teachers
Matt Croasmun is Associate Research Scholar and Director of the Life Worth Living Program at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture and Lecturer of Divinity and Humanities at Yale University. His main research interests lie in the Pauline Epistles, illuminated by various streams of contemporary philosophy of science, theological reflection, and critical theory. He is author of The Emergence of Sin (Oxford University Press: 2017) and staff pastor at the Elm City Vineyard, where for six years he served as lead pastor. With deep grounding in both the church and the academy, Matt brings to all of his work a passion for the intersection of the life of faith and the life of the mind.
Josh Williams, originally from Iowa, moved to New Haven for school. While not knowing what was in store, Josh came for an adventure. He found it through studying and trying to live out justice, love, and community. After graduating Yale in the spring of 2008, he decided to stay in New Haven to go to Yale Divinity School for a M.Div.
Around the same time, Josh plugged into Elm City Vineyard and soon became its first intern. During that process, Josh started prayer groups on Yale’s campus and established and grew ECV’s connection with Agape Church for the Housed and Unhoused where Josh serves along with a core group of ECVers. Right before his graduation in 2011, Josh was ordained as a pastor in the Vineyard and accepted a job with InterVarsity where he served as a campus minister for Yale College. Josh is ECV’s first full-time Lead Pastor, and he is thankful and excited for how God is maturing ECV’s vision and taking them to new places. Currently Josh is the Associate National Director for Evangelism and Justice of Vineyard USA.