James K. A. Smith (PhD Villanova University) is Professor of Philosophy at Calvin University. He is author of more than 15 books, including his award-winning three-volume Cultural Liturgies project, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation (Baker Academic, 2009), Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works (Baker Academic, 2013), and Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology (Baker Academic, 2017).