Topher Endress is the current Associate Minister at First Christian Church in Columbia, Missouri. Prior, he earned his MDiv from Vanderbilt Divinity School in 2015 and his PhD from the University of Aberdeen in 2021. When he isn't playing with his two young children, Topher helps run the Institute on Theology and Disability and has written six peer-reviewed journal articles and two book chapters, presented work in nine states and six countries, and has built countless Lego models.