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Dr. Frank Turek
Dr. Frank Turek is a dynamic speaker and award-winning author or coauthor of four books: Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to make their Case, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist, Correct, Not Politically Correct and Legislating Morality. As the President of CrossExamined.org, Frank presents powerful and entertaining evidence for Christianity at churches, high schools and at secular college campuses that often begin hostile to his message. To read more about Dr. Turek, click the button below.
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Dr. Hugh Ross
Astrophysicist Hugh Ross is the founder and president of Reasons to Believe (RTB), an organization dedicated to demonstrating the compatibility of science and the Christian faith. His writings include journal and magazine articles and numerous books—Weathering Climate Change, The Creator and the Cosmos, and Improbable Planet, among others. He has spoken on hundreds of university campuses as well as at conferences and churches around the world. To read more about Dr. Ross, click the button below.
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J Warner Wallace
J. Warner Wallace is a Dateline featured cold-case homicide detective, popular national speaker and best-selling author. He continues to consult on cold-case investigations while serving as a Senior Fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. He is also an adjunct professor of apologetics at Talbot School of Theology (Biola University) and Southern Evangelical Seminary, and a faculty member at Summit Ministries. He has authored incredible books in the apologetics world, including Cold-Case Christianity and Person of Interest.
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M.A. Greg Koukl
Greg founded Stand to Reason in 1993 and currently serves as President of Stand to Reason. He has spoken on more than 70 college and university campuses both in the U.S. and abroad and has hosted his own call-in radio show for 27 years, advocating for “Christianity worth thinking about.” He has debated atheist Michael Shermer on national radio and Deepak Chopra on national television. An award-winning writer and best-selling author, Greg has written seven books, including The Story of Reality—How the World Began, How It Ends, and Everything Important that Happens in Between; Tactics—A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions, and Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air. To read more about Dr. Koukl, click the button below.
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Mary Jo Sharp
A former atheist who came to faith, Mary Jo Sharp has experienced two worlds of American culture: the post-Christian culture of the Pacific Northwest and the evangelical culture of the Bible Belt. She first encountered apologetics in her own spiritual search while seeking answers. Mary Jo is now an assistant professor of apologetics at Houston Baptist University and the founder and director of Confident Christianity Apologetics Ministry. She has been featured in Christianity Today’s cover story “The Unexpected Defenders” and is an international speaker on apologetics, focusing on love and logic to uncover truth.
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Dr. Michael Licona
Dr. Licona is a New Testament scholar and is an Associate Professor in Theology at Houston Baptist University. With an MA in Religious Studies from Liberty University and a PhD in New Testament Studies from University of Pretoria, Michael has authored many books, one of them being The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus. Besides his academic career and writings, he is a frequent speaker on university campuses and has engaged in dozens of public debates, usually on the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection.
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Dr. Fazale "Fuz" Rana
Fuz writes and speaks extensively about evidence for creation emerging from biochemistry, genetics, human origins, and synthetic biology. He is the author of several books—including Humans 2.0, Thinking about Evolution, and Fit for a Purpose (October 2021), among others—and countless articles. He has addressed audiences at over 500 universities, churches, and conferences around the world and delivered numerous presentations at international scientific meetings. Fuz has also made numerous media appearances on television, radio, and in print. To read more about Dr. Rana, click the button below.
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Dr. Jeff Zweerink
Astrophysicist Jeff Zweerink is a research scholar for Reasons to Believe (RTB). Prior to joining RTB, Jeff spent years working on the STACEE and VERITAS gamma-ray telescopes and was involved in research projects such as the Solar Two project and the Whipple Collaboration. He continues to work as a project scientist at UCLA on GAPS, a balloon experiment seeking to detect dark matter. Jeff is also a coauthor on more than 30 academic papers published in peer-reviewed journals, such as Astrophysical Journal, Astroparticle Physics, and Astrobiology. Jeff has also made many media appearances, on television, radio, and in print. He earned a BS in physics and a PhD in astrophysics with a focus on gamma rays from Iowa State University. He taught and ran the planetarium at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, until postdoctoral research in gamma rays led him to the University of California, Riverside.
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Dr. Travis Dickinson
Travis says that he "loves to challenge Christians to think hard and to do so with care". He has authored three books and is the co-author in one, all concerning apologetics. Dr. Dickinson is currently the Professor of Philosophy at Dallas Baptist University and also a a regularly contributing writer for the Christian Research Journal. His passion for the Bible is clear when looking at his academic career, with an MA in Christian Apologetics and another in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, both from Biola University from Biola University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. To read more about Dr. Dickinson, click the button below.
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Pastor Larry Evans
Senior Pastor at First Baptist Church Cloudcroft, New Mexico