Dave Schmelzer leads the initiatives of The Pocket Contemplative. He and his wife Grace served for 15 years as founding pastors of what is now Reservoir Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts and which, during their time there, became the largest church near Harvard. He’s spoken at many universities including Harvard, MIT, Tufts, USC and Stanford and at churches and conferences throughout the U.S. and beyond. Dave is the author of Not the Religious Type: Confessions of a Turncoat Atheist (Tyndale 2008) and Blue Ocean Faith (Read the Spirit 2017). He has a background both in theology (Fuller Seminary, '87) and the arts (Stanford University, '84, and a decade working as a playwright). He and Grace live in Santa Monica, California.