Johanna Blanding-Koskinen

Johanna Blanding-Koskinen is an ordained minister, pastoral counselor, and community chaplain pursuing a Master of Divinity in Theology and Apologetics at Belhaven Seminary. She is the founder of Living Apologetics and a contributing writer for Got Questions Ministries, a theologically conservative evangelical ministry focused on providing biblical answers to spiritually related questions. She has also had a number of essays published in Christian magazines and teaches Biblical Studies at Metropolitan Community College.

To date, her research focuses on Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Jackson, and the theological and political circumstances that led to the institutional division of the National Baptist Convention, which at the time represented the largest Baptist body in American history.

She has been married for 31 years and lives in the Midwest United States.