The Reverend Dr. James (Jim) R. Newby is the Senior Minister of The Church of the Savior in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the Director of the Trueblood Yokefellow Academy. Before coming to Oklahoma, Jim was the Minister of Faith and Learning at the Wayzata Community United Church of Christ in Wayzata, Minnesota, and the Minister of Spiritual Growth at Plymouth Church in Des Moines, Iowa.

He has served as the Director of the Yokefellow Institute at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, and was on the faculty of the Earlham School of Religion. Jim holds degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary, Earlham School of Religion, and Friends University, and has served in pastorates and denominational leadership positions in North Carolina, Ohio and Nebraska. He is, by tradition, a Quaker, and the author of Sacred Chaos: One Man’s Spiritual Journey Through Pain and Loss.