Benjamin L. Corey is an author, speaker, blogger for the popular site Formerly Fundie, and a leader in the Emerging Church Movement and progressive Christianity overall. Corey is a scholar and public theologian, a two-time graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary with graduate degrees in theology and missiology, and also holds a doctorate in intercultural studies from Fuller Theological Seminary.

Corey is the author of Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith. In this new book published by HarperOne, Corey describes his experience of a crisis of faith in which he discovers that he had not actually lost his Christian faith, but that he had to admit that the American version of Christianity that he had been taught, based in fear of God and, often, each other, was neither workable or believable. This discovery led to an examination of the Bible and his life to see what the Christian faith was really all about.