Will Samson is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Kentucky, where he is working on research in the areas of sustainability and Christian community. He was recently awarded the Gilbert Beers Fellowship for his paper “Christians for the Mountains: An Evangelical Response to Mountaintop Removal.” Will and his wife, Lisa, along with their three children, Ty, Jake, and Gwynnie, live in Lexington, Kentucky, as part of Communality, an intentional Christian community dedicated to living out the call of the gospel in tangible ways.