Dr. Michael Bauman

Dr. Michael (Mike) Bauman is professor of Theology and Culture and Director of Christian Studies at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, MI. Michael is also the Resident-Scholar for Summit Semester, a Summit Ministries institute. Michael was once a member of the Editorial Department at Newsweek, a pastor in the Evangelical Free Church of America, and the President of the Evangelical Philosophical Society. He has published nearly 20 books and 50 articles and political editorials; his books include God and Man in the Twentieth Century, Man and Creation, and Are You Politically Correct?. Dr. Bauman's latest books are 90 Days in the Christian Classics, Christianity A to Z, and Pilgrim Theology. As a former World Champion in cycling, he is a contributing editor for Ultra Cycling magazine and co-editor of The Schwarz Report. You can learn more about Dr. Bauman at his webpage. Please peruse his contributions to our store.

Dr. David A. Noebel

Dr. David A. Noebel is founder and former president of Summit Ministries. Dr. Noebel has been a college professor, college president, and candidate for the U.S. Congress. Dr. Noebel has a B.A. from Hope College in Holland, a M.A. from the University of Tulsa, and was a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. He is an Author, Editor, Public Speaker, and Ordained Minister. He is recognized as an expert on worldview analysis and the decline of morality and spirituality in Western Civilization. He travels worldwide lecturing in high schools, universities, and churches. David has been a guest on numerous national radio and television programs. He has authored a number of books and has written extensively on the subject of Western Civilization's moral and spiritual decline. His most popular works include Understanding the Times (which has sold over 500,000 copies), the New York Times' best selling Mind Siege (co-authored with Tim LaHaye), and Clergy in the Classroom (co-authored with Kevin Bywater and J.F. Baldwin). He and his wife Alice live in Manitou Springs, CO. They have two children and five grandchildren. You can learn more about Dr. Noebel at his blog From the President's Desk. Please peruse his contributions to our store.

Dr. Paul Cleveland

Dr. Paul Cleveland is part of the Economics Faculty at Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, AL and an an Adjunct Scholar with Acton Institute. Dr. Cleveland has a B.A. and M.A. from Auburn University and received his Ph.D. in Economics from Texas A&M University. He has taught at SUNY-Geneseo and the University of Central Florida. Paul's principal academic research is focused on the study of Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurial Human Action. Paul's articles have been published in numerous places, including the Journal of Private Enterprise, Idaho's Economy, Religion and Liberty, and Ideas on Liberty. In addition to his writing, he has lectured on the free market in numerous places, including universities in Lithuania, Poland, and Taiwan. He is married and is the father of two children. When he is not working, he enjoys activities with his family and playing golf.

Mr. Carl Ellis

Mr. Carl Ellis is the President of Project Joseph, a ministry devoted to equipping Christians to minister to Muslims. He is also the Dean of Intercultural Studies at Westminster Theological Seminary. Dr. Ellis holds a B.A. from Hampton University, a M.A. from Westminster Theological Seminary, and a D.Phil. from Oxford Graduate School in Crystal Springs, TN. Carl is a sought-after speaker on the subjects of Islam and Racial Reconciliation. He has pastored at the Friendship Community Church in Chattanooga, TN, taught seminars for Prison Fellowship Ministries, and has taught at the Center for Urban Theological Studies and Chesapeake Theological Seminary. He has authored several books including The Changing Face of Islam in America: Understanding and Reaching Your Muslim Neighbors and Free at Last?: The Gospel in the African-American Experience.

Mr. Mike Haley

Mr. Mike Haley is the Youth and Gender Specialist for Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, CO. Having been involved in the homosexual community as a teen and young adult, Mike offers tremendous insight into this culture and how it affects today's youth. Mike speaks throughout the nation with Focus' "Love Won Out" conferences, providing accurate information on how today's Christian leaders and public school officials can effectively address homosexuality's toll on youth. Mike's latest book is Straight Answers: Exposing the Myths and Facts about Homosexuality. Mike and his wife Angie are the proud parents of two sons. Please peruse his contributions to our store.

Mr. Scott Klusendorf

Mr. Scott Klusendorf is the Founder and President of the Life Training Institute, which allows him to travel throughout the United States and Canada training pro-life advocates to persuasively defend their views in the public square. Mr. Klusendorf is an honors' graduate of UCLA. He has appeared on nationally syndicated programs like "Focus on the Family," "Hour of Decision," "The Bible Answer Man," "For Faith and Family," "Faith Under Fire," and "American Family Radio." As a guest speaker in bio-ethics, Scott has taught pro-life apologetics at Biola University, Trinity International University Law School, and Orange Coast College. He has lectured to student groups at over 70 colleges and universities, including Stanford, USC, UCLA, Johns Hopkins, Loyola Marymount Law School, West Virginia Medical School, MIT, the U.S. Air Force Academy, Cal-Tech, and the University of North Carolina. Mr. Klusendorf is the author of Pro-Life 101: A Step by Step Guide to Making Your Case Persuasively and The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture. Scott has also published articles on Pro-life Apologetics in The Christian Research Journal, Clear Thinking, Citizen, and The Conservative Theological Journal. Please peruse his contributions to our store.

Dr. Terry Moffitt

Dr. Terry Moffitt is the Board Chief for Family Policy Network, a socially-conservative Christian organization that works to inform Christians and confront the culture on the important moral issues of the day. Dr. Moffitt played basketball and received his B.A. in Education from the University of North Carolina, his M.Ed from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and his Th.D. from Jacksonville Theological Seminary. Over the years he has found himself in the middle of wars in eight countries, had a contract put out on his life by organized crime, received death threats from radical Islamic groups, and been bitten by a very nasty spider in Australia. Terry is an internationally known speaker who has traveled and spoken on every continent, been an educator for more than 25 years, and currently teaches Education Law in the graduate school at Columbia International University. He has been featured in prominent media venues such as BBC, CBN, TBN, "Fox and Friends," "MSNBC, Nightline," "The Today Show," and "American Family Radio." Dr. Moffitt has also been interviewed for articles in publications such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Palestinian Chronicle, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The Malaysian National News, and The London Telegraph. He is currently completing work on two books: Soft Targets in a Hard World: Christian Schools, Security and Terrorism and Was it Something I Said? How to be an Uncompromising Christian in a Compromising World. Terry lives in High Point, NC with his wife Cindy and their neurotic little dog Scottie.

Dr. Jeff Myers

Dr. Jeff Myers is president of Summit Ministries. He also serves as Distinquished Service Professor and Senior Fellow for Leadership Studies at Bryan College in Dayton, TN. Dr. Myers speaks to more than 50,000 people each year in corporations, schools, homeschool conferences, parent groups, and youth-serving organizations. Over the last decade, Dr. Myers has worked with Summit Ministries to develop cutting-edge leadership experiences in Colorado, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alberta, Canada. Dr. Myers’ many books and video courses include Of Knights and Fair Maidens, Playpen to Podium, Secrets of Great Communicators, Secrets of the World-Changers, Secrets of Everyday Leaders, For Such a Time as This, Handoff, and Cultivate. Dr. Myers earned a Ph.D. in Communications from the University of Denver. He and his wife Danielle have four children—Graham, Emma, Cate, and Stuart—and live in Manitou Springs, CO. Please peruse his contributions to our store.

Dr. Gary Phillips

Dr. Gary Phillips is Pastor of Signal Mountain Bible Church in Chattanooga, TN. Dr. Phillips has a B.A. from Vanderbilt University, a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary, and a Th.D. from Grace Theological Seminary. He was Chairman of Biblical Studies at Bryan College, where he taught for twenty-four years, and was named by the trustees "Distinguished Professor of Biblical Studies." He has received six teaching awards, has published several articles and books, including Making Sense of Your World (co-authored with William Brown and nominated for Christianity Today's Reader's Choice Book of the Year). Gary has also served as an officer in both the Evangelical Theological Society and the Evangelical Philosophical Society. Most recently he contributed several articles for The Encyclopedia of Theology and wrote a commentary entitled Judges and Ruth. He and his wife Betsy have three grown children and live in Chattanooga, TN.

Mr. John Stonestreet

John Stonestreet's passion is to illuminate a biblical worldview for today's culture. He's a speaker, writer, cultural commentator, and collaborator of worldview initiatives. In his shared role with the Colson Center and Summit Ministries, John directs conferences and curriculum projects, speaks to groups nationally and internationally, consults on worldview education for schools and churches, and appears frequently on web and radio broadcasts. As the host of The Point, a daily national radio program, John provides thought-provoking commentaries on current events and life issues from a biblical worldview. John holds degrees from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (IL) and Bryan College (TN), and is the co-author of Making Sense of Your World: A Biblical Worldview. He and his wife Sarah have three daughters and a dog, and live in Colorado Springs, CO. Please peruse his contributions to our store.

Mr. Peter Greer

Peter Greer works with HOPE International in the field of microfinance. Peter received a B.S. degree in International Business from Messiah College and he earned an M.P.P. with a concentration in Political and Economic Development from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Prior to his education at Harvard, Peter served as Managing Director for URWEGO Community Banking in Kigali, Rwanda for three years. He also served as a technical advisor for Self-Help Development Foundation (CARE Zimbabwe) in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and he worked as a microfinance advisor in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Dr. Whit Jones

Dr. Whit Jones is a professor of English at Bryan College, teaching Introduction to Literary Criticism (Theory), Shakespeare, Southern Literature, Lewis and Tolkien: Imaginative Apologists, the English (British) literature survey, and World Literature I, along with freshman and sophomore composition and literature. He has published reviews, articles, and literary dictionary entries and given a number of conference papers as a member of both Christian and secular professional societies. His dissertation on Southern novelist Walker Percy won the William Dougald MacMillan Award for the best English-Department dissertation of the year in 1997 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. He is currently finishing the rewriting of the dissertation as a book to be published by Louisiana State University Press, a major U.S. press for scholarly works on Southern literature. He is also under contract with a Christian home-school textbook publishing company, Apologia, to write high school texts for courses in American, British, and world literature and an introduction to literature course. He has served as an elder in his church and taught Sunday School classes on the Christian imagination, marriage, and parenting. His wife Amy has her Master’s degree in Special Education and home-schools their four children, the oldest of whom will be attending Bryan in the fall. The Joneses live in Dayton, Tennessee.

Warren Smith

Warren Cole Smith has over 20 years of experience as a writer, editor, marketing professional, and entrepreneur. Warren is the associate publisher of WORLD Magazine, the nation’s largest Christian news magazine. He has also served as the publisher and editor of the Evangelical Press News Service, a “wire service” for approximately 100 Christian newspapers with a combined print-run of more than 1-million each month. Before launching a career in Christian journalism, Warren spent over seven years as the Marketing Director for a major division of PricewaterhouseCoopers, a “Big Five” accounting firm. Warren honed his story-telling skills by writing outdoor and adventure stories — both fiction and non-fiction — for such magazines as Alaska, High Country, High Adventure, and Sports Afield. His essays, reviews, interviews, and articles have also been included in various books, including Public Relations, one of the most widely used college journalism textbooks in the world. Professional and civic honors include selection to Outstanding Young Men In America and Who’s Who Among American Executives. In 1997 The Business Journal of Charlotte chose him as one of Charlotte’s “40 Under 40,” an annual list of the city’s business and civic leaders under the age of 40. His monthly editorial column won the Evangelical Press Association’s top prize as “Column of the Year” in 2006. A series of articles he did on AIDS in India won the Evangelical Press Association’s top prize for feature reporting in 2004. During his time as publisher and editor of “The Charlotte World,” that paper won more awards from the Evangelical Press Association than any other paper, including twice being named “Newspaper of the Year.” Smith’s column was named “Column Of The Year” by the EPA and the Fellowship of Christian Newspapers. Warren has been an active supporter of the Boy Scouts for more than 30 years. He is an Eagle Scout, and he served for seven years on the staff at Philmont Scout Ranch. He served two terms as president of the Philmont Staff Association, and he has contributed to or edited four books about Philmont. His education includes a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in English, both from the University of Georgia. He and his wife Missy have been married for 26 years, and they have four children. His oldest is a graduate of Grove City College. He has a son at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Warren and Missy and their two younger children live in Charlotte, N.C. He speaks often at churches, conferences, and other Christian and political events. These speeches have included presentations at the national conferences of the Gospel Music Association and the Evangelical Press Association, in addition to hundreds of speeches at local and regional events.