Jack Reese is the author of At the Blue Hole: Elegy for a Church on the Edge (Eerdmans Publishing, 2021). In addition to his writing, he serves as Executive Minister at the Northside Church of Christ in San Antonio. Jack has been a minister for more than fifty years in Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. He has served as a ministry consultant and has taught and preached at churches on five continents.

Jack’s passion for ministry has also taken him into several academic settings—as a professor of preaching, worship, ministry, and New Testament texts, as well as a college and seminary dean. He has his PhD in theological studies at the University of Iowa, his master’s in communication at the University of Oklahoma, and his master’s in New Testament at Abilene Christian University.

Before moving to San Antonio, Jack headed the Foundation for Community Empowerment in Dallas, addressing issues of poverty and racism and providing opportunities for economic and personal advancement through education in the humanities. He has composed numerous hymns and is the author of several books about church and ministry.

Jack is married to Lesa, who is a speech pathologist and educator. They love cooking together, singing, traveling to new places, reading geeky social science books, hosting friends in their home, working with San Antonio interfaith leaders, mentoring young Christians, and spending time with six adorable grandchildren.