is professor emeritus of theology at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa. He is a minister in the United Church of Christ and also a past president of the American Theological Society (Midwest division). He is the author of hundreds of articles and more than thirty books, including the two-volume systematic theological work Essentials of Evangelical Theology (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1978-79) and the nearly completed seven-volume Christian Foundations Series (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, vol. 7 forthcoming). He lives in Dubuque, Iowa, with his wife, Brenda.
is an internationally known speaker and author who co-founded
with her husband, Stuart, Telling the Truth media ministries. For
years the Briscoes have given presentations at conferences and mission
organizations around the globe. Jill is the executive editor of Just Between
Us, a magazine for women in ministry and leadership. She is the author of
more than forty books, including Prayer That Works and Faith Enough to
Finish. A native of Liverpool, England, Jill resides with Stuart in suburban
Milwaukee.
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is a widely recognized and highly regarded songwriter and
musician. Over the years he has won several Dove Awards, and his song "El
Shaddai" was recognized by the Recording Industry Association of America
and the National Endowment for the Arts as one of the 365 Songs of the
Century. Michael has recorded twenty-two albums, including The Life, The
Promise, Joy in the Journey, and Soul Anchor. He has authored ten books,
including A Violent Grace and Scribbling in the Sand. Michael is married to
Susan, and they live with their four children in the Nashville area.
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a native of Canada, is a licensed clinical psychologist who
received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Purdue University. He has
taught psychology at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and at Trinity
International University, serving as department chair at the latter institution
for most of his tenure. He was executive director and president of the
American Association of Christian Counselors during the years of the
organization's rapid growth and founded the official AACC magazine,
Christian Counseling Today. He was general editor for the thirty-volume
Resources for Christian Counseling and is the author of more than fifty books,
including Christian Counseling: A Comprehensive Guide and his most recent
book, Christian Coaching: Helping Others Turn Potential into Reality. Now
the chairman of the Bridge Institute, devoted to building emerging visionary
leaders through coaching, Dr. Collins also heads the International
Christian Counseling Alliance and travels frequently to present seminars
internationally. He and his wife, Julie, live in northern Illinois.
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the one-time "hatchet man" for President Richard
Nixon, has been for three decades a champion for ministering to prisoners
and their families. He is the founder and chairman of Prison Fellowship
Ministries, which reaches prisoners with the gospel in ninety-three countries
and also provides for their families' material needs. In 1983 Colson
founded Justice Fellowship, which seeks to reform the criminal justice system.
He is the author of eighteen books, including Loving God, The Body,
and How Now Shall We Live? In 1993 he received the prestigious Templeton Prize
for Progress in Religion. He is also the host of BreakPoint, a
nationally syndicated daily radio broadcast.
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has, over the past thirty years, sought the ways of God as a
licensed psychologist. After teaching psychology at secular universities, he
spent ten years in private practice. He then reentered academia, but this
time in the Christian arena-first at Grace Theological Seminary and then
at Colorado Christian University, as chairman and professor. In 1996, while
remaining a professor, he left the chair to become the Distinguished Scholar
in Residence. He is the founder and president of New Way Ministries,
which focuses on bringing healing to the church through encounter,
transformation, and community. Crabb has written twenty books, including The
Pressure's Off, Shattered Dreams, and Inside Out. He and his wife, Rachael,
have two grown sons and two grandchildren. They live in Colorado.
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spent ten years as a radio personality before she left
broadcasting in 1986 to begin her public speaking career. She is the author
of twenty books for both adults and children, including her best-selling
titles Bad Girls of the Bible, Really Bad Girls of the Bible, and Mad Mary: A
Bad Girl from Magdala Transformed at His Appearing. Her award-winning
children's titles include The Pumpkin Patch Parable and The Parable of the
Lily. Liz and her husband, Bill, live with their two teenagers in Kentucky.
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is emeritus professor of law at the University of California,
Berkeley, where he taught for more than twenty-five years. Prior to
this he served as law clerk for Chief Justice Roger Traynor of the California
Supreme Court and for Chief Justice Earl Warren of the United States
Supreme Court. A widely respected critic of the theory of evolution, Johnson
often lectures and participates in discussions around the country and
is a leading spokesman for the Intelligent Design movement. He has
authored six books, most notably Darwin on Trial, Reason in the Balance,
and Wedge of Truth. He and his wife, Kathie, have three children between
them and live in Berkeley, California.
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is senior minister of the nearly ten-thousand member
Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He
is founder and president of Evangelism Explosion International, which is
the first ministry to be established in every nation on earth. He is chancellor
of Knox Theological Seminary and founder of The Center for Christian
Statesmanship in Washington, D.C., which endeavors to bring the
gospel of Christ to those who hold the reins of power in our government.
He is founder of The Center for Reclaiming America, which seeks to equip
men and women to work in their communities to transform our culture.
He is the author of more than fifty-five books.
Dr. Kennedy's messages are broadcast by television and radio to more
than forty thousand cities and towns in the United States and in more than
two hundred foreign countries, making him the most listened to Presbyterian
minister in the world. Dr. Kennedy is a summa cum laude graduate
and holds nine degrees, including a Ph.D. He is listed in several dozen
registries, including 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th Century and
International Man of the Year 1999-2000 by the International Biographical
Centre in Cambridge, England, and the 1000 Leaders of World Influence
by the American Biographical Institute.
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is a former president of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.
During his tenure the school was listed twelve times in the U.S. News and
World Report survey as one of America's best colleges. He currently serves
the university as chancellor. Prior to this he served as president of Youth for
Christ, having been with the organization for thirty years. The Council for
Christian Colleges and Universities honored Kesler as a Distinguished
Senior Fellow in 2000, joining Dr. Richard Halverson, former Chaplain of
the United States Senate, and Charles Colson as its only other recipients.
Among Kesler's twenty-three books are Emotionally Healthy Teenagers, Challenges
for the College Bound, and Being Holy, Being Human. He and his wife,
Jane, live in Indiana and are parents to three children and grandparents to
nine grandchildren.
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began his speaking ministry in 1964 when he joined
Campus Crusade for Christ International. He continues to minister
through speaking, a radio ministry, overseas mission and humanitarian
efforts, and campaigns such as Beyond Belief to Convictions, which is
designed to assist families and churches in equipping youth to stand strong
in the face of today's culture. McDowell has spoken on the campuses of
more than seven hundred colleges and universities in eighty-four countries
to more than seven million young people. He is the author or coauthor of
more than seventy-five books, including Evidence That Demands a Verdict,
More Than a Carpenter, and Beyond Belief to Convictions. He and his wife,
Dottie, have four children and live in Dallas.
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a native of Oklahoma, has spent his adult life in ministry.
He was a pastor for thirty years and is a former professor at Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary. He currently holds the post of professor
of preaching and ministry studies at Beeson Divinity School, Sanford University,
in Birmingham, Alabama. Miller is the award-winning author of fifty books,
including The Singer Trilogy; Spirit, Word, and Story; and Into the Depths of
God. He is a much sought after preacher and guest lecturer. He and his wife,
Barbara, have two adult children.
was born in Twyning, Gloucestershire, England, and attended
Oxford University. Upon his ordination in 1952, he was assistant minister
at St. John's Church of England in Harborne, Birmingham. For twenty-seven
years he preached and taught in the United Kingdom before he
moved to Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, to become professor
of systematic and historical theology. In 1989 he was made Sangwoo
Youtong Chee Professor of Theology, and since 1996 has been the Board
of Governors' Professor of Theology. He is a senior editor of Christianity
Today magazine. Among the books he has written are Truth and Power,
Fundamentalism and the Word of God, Knowing and Doing the Will of God,
and the modern-day classic Knowing God. He and his wife, Kit, have three
grown children and live in Vancouver.
, originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, has long had a passion
for evangelism. In 1961 he joined Overseas Crusades (now OC International)
to minister to Spanish-speaking people, and in 1966 he held his
first evangelistic campaign in Bogotá, Colombia. The Luis Palau Evangelistic
Association became a separate ministry in 1978. Palau has organized
hundreds of evangelistic crusades and festivals around the world. He is the
author of nearly fifty books in both English and Spanish, including It's a
God Thing, God Is Relevant, and Say Yes! How to Renew Your Spiritual Passion.
He and his wife, Patricia, live in Oregon and have four grown sons
and nine grandchildren.
, the child of missionaries with the China Inland Mission,
attended Beaver College in Germantown, Pennsylvania, where she
met her future husband, Francis A. Schaeffer. They we re married in 1935
and after more schooling and ministry work were sent in 1948 to Switzerland
by the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. In 1955
they began L'Abri, a community that welcomed people who were seeking
answers to questions about God and the meaning of life. Edith is the
author of seventeen books, including L'Abri, What Is a Family? and Christianity
Is Jewish. Widowed since Francis's death in 1984, she lives near two
of her children in Switzerland.
is a renowned poet, essayist, and teacher. Along with her
husband, Harold Shaw, she founded Harold Shaw Publishers and served as
vice president until Harold's death in 1986, when she became president.
She is now Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver, British
Columbia, and poetry editor of Radix Magazine. In addition to her many
writings included in various anthologies, she has written twenty-five books,
including God in the Dark, The Green Earth, and The Angles of Light. In
1991 she remarried and now lives in Bellingham, Washington, with her
husband, John Hoyte. She is the mother of five children and has five
grandchildren.
was ordained in 1945 and served in various capacities
at All Souls Church in Langham Place, London, where he continues to
minister. He has been Rector Emeritus since 1975. He was appointed
Chaplain to the Queen from 1959 to 1991, and an Extra Chaplain in
1991. As a lifelong leader among evangelicals around the world, he was the
principal framer of the Lausanne Covenant (1974), which called for "justice
and reconciliation throughout human society." Since 1970 Stott has
focused much energy traveling and speaking in the Third World and has
established The Evangelical Literature Program and the Langham Partnership
International to provide books and scholarships to students and pastors
in the developing world. He is the founder and honorary president of
the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. He is the author of
fifty books. Some of his most notable titles are Basic Christianity,
The Contemporary Christian, The Cross of Christ, and Commentary on Romans.
is the founder and president of Joni and Friends,
an organization focused on ministering to people with disabilities. She
received a presidential appointment to the National Council on Disability,
on which she served for three and a half years. Her daily radio broadcast,
Joni and Friends, can be heard on more than 850 stations. She is in high
demand for conferences and speaking engagements around the world. Joni
has received numerous honors, including being named the Church woman
of the Year in 1993 by the Religious Heritage Foundation. She has written
more than thirty books, including All God's Children; A Quiet Place in a
Crazy World; Heaven, Your Real Home; and her best-selling autobiography,
Joni. She and her husband, Ken, live in Calabasas, California.
is best known for writing The Living Bible paraphrase
and founding Tyndale House Publishers. Prior to this he was editor for His
magazine and at InterVarsity Press before becoming director of Moody
Press. It was on the train to and from his Chicago office that he began writing
the paraphrase that became The Living Bible. He is now chairman of the
board at Tyndale House Publishers. Dr. Taylor is the author of twenty-six
books for both children and adults, including Stories for the Children's Hour
and The Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes. He and his wife, Margaret, are the
parents of ten children and live in the Chicago area. They have a growing
family of twenty-eight grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren .
is a prolific writer and storyteller. For fourteen
years, beginning in 1974, he served as pastor of Grace Church in Evansville,
Indiana. In 1991 he became a professor and occupant of the Emil and
Elfriede Jochum Chair at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana. He
often is asked to speak at conferences and to lecture at universities. He has
written thirty-four books for both children and adults, fiction and nonfiction,
including The Book of the Dun Cow, Ragman and Other Cries of Faith,
Reliving the Passion, and The Book of God. He lives with his wife, Thanne,
on a farm near Valparaiso, Indiana. They are the parents of four children
and grandparents to four grandchildren.
has been professor of philosophy at the University of
Southern California since 1965. Between 1982 and 1985, he was director
of the School of Philosophy. Among his primary areas of focus are epistemology,
the philosophy of mind and logic, and spiritual formation. He is
the author of six books, including The Spirit of the Disciplines, The Divine
Conspiracy, and most recently, Renovation of the Heart. He and his wife, Jane,
live in Southern California. They have two children and one grandchild.
a native of India, is well known for his lectures at leading
universities around the world-he has spoken in more than fifty countries.
For three and a half years he held the chair of evangelism and contemporary
thought at Alliance Theological Seminary. Let My People Think, his
weekly radio broadcast, is heard on more than one thousand stations
worldwide, and he also can be heard on A Slice of Infinity, his daily radio
program. He is president of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, which
has offices in several cities around the world. He has written ten books,
including Can Man Live Without God, Deliver Us from Evil, The Lotus and
the Cross, and Light in the Shadow of Jihad. Ravi lives in the Atlanta area
with his wife, Margaret. They have three grown children.
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