About me

Skye Jethani serves as the managing editor of Leadership Journal, a publication of Christianity Today International. Leadership’s purpose is to equipe pastors and church leaders for the challenges of ministry in a complex world. In this role, Skye not only has the opportunity to engage many of Christianity’s most influential leaders, but also translate their thoughts into practical help for those struggling to live faithfully in a rapidly shifting culture. Skye also contributes regularly to other resources within the Leadership Media Group including Out of Ur , Preaching Today, and Building Church Leaders, and he’s the author of The Divine Commodity: Discovering a Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (Zondervan, 2009).

Prior to his editorial role with Leadership, Skye served for six years in full-time pastoral ministry at Blanchard Alliance Church in Wheaton, Illinois. During this time he helped Blanchard launch a second congregation in Warrenville, Illinois, and wrestle with questions of mission and spiritual formation in a postmodern, post-Christian culture. As a teaching pastor, Skye’s taught adult classes with a special focus on issues of faith and culture. He continues to serve as a member of Blanchard’s teaching team and preaches in both Wheaton and Warrenville regularly.

Training

Skye is ordained in the Christian & Missionary Alliance, a Protestant Christian denomination started in 1887 with a focus on international missions. The C&MA has approximately 500,000 members in the US and Canada, and an additional 3 million in 75 other countries. He earned a Masters of Divinity degree in 2001 from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. While at Trinity, Skye served as a pastoral intern at Libertyville Evangelical Free Church and a student chaplain at Lake Forest Hospital. He also participated as a volunteer at the South Asian Friendship Center in the Roger’s Park neighborhood of Chicago. Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, is where Skye conducted his undergraduate studies in History and Comparative Religion with a focus on Islamic history and theology. He also studied Buddhism, Judaism, and Early Christianity.

Family

Skye and his wife, Amanda, have been friends since high school. They were married in 1999 and currently live in Wheaton, Illinois, with their three children Zoe, Isaac, and Lucy. Skye’s father immigrated to the United States from India in 1970 to complete his medical training at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. His mother was a nurse and a native of Chicago. Growing up in a multi-ethnic home gave Skye a diverse outlook and broad exposure to cultures. Before college he had already traveled to nearly 30 foreign countries on 5 continents. Skye grew up in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and graduated from Glenbard South High School.

What kind of name is Skye, anyway?

It’s a nickname. His given name is Akash, a Hindi name that means sky in English. Since birth his family has called him Skye, although he still doesn’t know who decided to ad the -e.