Ken Carter is the resident bishop of the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church. He previously served as president of the (global) Council of Bishops of the UMC, as a moderator of the Commission on a Way Forward, and as bishop of the Florida Conference. At present he is a member of the Methodist Church in Britain-United Methodist Concordat and co-chair of the United Methodist-Roman Catholic Dialogue. He is the author of eighteen books, most recently Unrelenting Grace: A United Methodist Way of Life (Abingdon, 2023), and he serves as bishop in residence and a consulting faculty member at Duke University Divinity School.