Craig Detweiler, Ph.D

President, The Wedgwood Circle

Author, filmmaker, and exec Craig Detweiler, Ph.D., is President of The Wedgwood Circle, an investment group focused upon good, true, and beautiful entertainment. His research interests include technology, creativity, parenting and adolescence. His newest book, Selfies: Searching for the Image of God in a Digital Age, received Christianity Today’s 2019 Award of Merit in “Culture and the Arts”.  Foreword honored iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives as the 2014 Silver award winner for best books about Popular Culture. His first book (co-written with Barry Taylor), A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture remains a foundational text for theology and culture classes around the world.  Craig’s cultural commentary has been featured on ABC’s Nightline, CNN, Fox News, NPR, and in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Craig wrote the screenplays for The Duke (see it on The Disney Channel), the comedic road trip, Extreme Days and directed the award-winning documentary Remand, narrated by Angela Bassett.  Detweiler also co-hosts a coalition of schools at the Sundance Film Festival for the annual Windrider Forum. Variety honored Detweiler as their 2016 Mentor of the Year.