Biographical information
Rev. Jim Ball, Ph.D.
Spokesperson, Evangelical Climate Initiative
President, Evangelical Environmental Network
Rev. Jim Ball, Ph.D., an ordained Baptist minister, is the national spokesperson for the Evangelical Climate Initiative and president and CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN). Rev. Ball also serves as publisher of Creation Care magazine.
Time magazine named Rev. Ball one of its five climate change “innovators” in its April 3, 2006 edition, and in 2005, Rolling Stone magazine named him one of its 25 environmental “Warriors and Heroes.”
Ball has appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, American Morning, Crossfire and Headline News as well as Fox News’ The Big Story and Fox and Friends. Rev. Ball has also appeared on ABC’s World News Tonight and PBS’ NOW Show with Bill Moyers.
Rev. Ball became EEN’s Executive Director in January 2000 and was recently named President of the organization. Prior to that, he taught at Montclair State University in New Jersey and was Minister of Christian Education at the First Baptist Church of Beloit, Wisconsin.
He holds a BA from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, a Master of Divinity from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and a Ph.D. from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.
Rev. Ball lives with his wife Kara in Vienna, Virginia.