Jesse Hamilton has more than twenty-five years of experience in the education and human services sectors, including more than seven years of nonprofit work in Asia. He holds an MA with distinction in systematic and philosophical theology from the University of Nottingham, where he studied under Simon Oliver, now Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at the University of Durham. He was enrolled in PhD studies in analytic philosophy of religion at the University of Aberdeen, writing his thesis on compatibilism and the problem of evil under the direction of Stephan Torre, before withdrawing to refocus on service. He is the author of four books in practical theology and a collection of poetry.