Stephen M. Davis is an elder at Grace Church (gracechurchphilly.org). He and his wife, Kathy, have been engaged in church planting in the US, France, and Romania since 1982. He earned a DMin in Missiology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and a PhD in Intercultural Studies from Columbia International University. He is the author of Crossing Cultures: Preparing Strangers for Ministry in Strange Places; Urban Church Planting: Journey into a World of Depravity, Density, and Diversity; and Rise of French Laïcité: French Secularism from the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century.