Ben Yosua-Davis serves on The BTS Center staff team as Director of Applied Research, where he shapes the organization’s posture of “rigorous and reverent curiosity,” focused on research that supports and shares the wisdom of on-the-ground practitioners working in a climate-changed world. Ben was the principal investigator on “Cultivating Earth-Shaped Leadership,” which researched how the wisdom of the planet informs organizational leadership. He also leads the Compelling Preaching for a Climate-Changed World research project. He is a graduate of Drew Theological Seminary and Colby College.

Ben is a former pastor and church planter. He is a Maine native and now lives on Chebeague Island, Maine with his wife, Melissa, his son Michael, and his daughters, Genevieve and Emeline; where he directs the community chorus and delivers tins of cookies to unsuspecting neighbors.