Sweet, Leonard: - Leonard Sweet is the author of more than seventy books, including recent works on preaching (Giving Blood), evangelism (Nudge), ecclesiology (So Beautiful) and discipleship (I Am a Follower). In demand worldwide as a speaker, Len often appears on "Most Influential Christians in America" listings and was selected by the top non-English Christian website as one of the "Top 10 Influential World Christians of 2010". Len works with doctoral students at four institutions: Drew University, George Fox University Northwind Seminary, and Evangelical Seminary (Kairos). In 2015 he launched his own homiletics resource at preachthestory.com, and in 2020 he founded his own publishing house: the Salish Sea Press. His "Napkin Scribbles" podcasts are available on leonardsweet.com or Spotify. He resides on Orcas Island in the San Juans in the Pacific Northwest.