Eric Metaxas, Author and Humorist

SPEAKERS;

* Frederica Matthewes-Green, Author and Social Commentator
* Gregory Wolfe, Writer in Residence at Seattle Pacific University; Founder/Editor Image
* Jerry Eisley,
* Joseph Pearce, Writer-in-Residence and Assistant Professor of Literature.
* Dr. Louis Markos, Author and Professor of English, Houston Baptist University
* Norman Stone, Producer/Director
* Dr. John Franke, Professor of Theology, Biblical Seminary
* Stratford Caldecott, UK Director of the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith and Culture
* Tony Jones, Author and National Coordinator of Emergent Village
* Dr.Tom Howard , Lecturer and Author

Frederica Matthewes-Green, Author and Social Commentator
Frederica Mathewes-Green is from Charleston, S.C. and received an MA in Theological Studies from Virginia Episcopal Seminary. Her work has appeared in such diverse publications as the Washington Post, Christianity Today, Smithsonian, the Los Angeles Times, First Things, Books & Culture, Sojourners, Touchstone, and the Wall Street Journal. She is a regular columnist for Beliefnet.com, and she writes movie reviews for National Review Online. In the past, her commentaries have been heard on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Her essays were selected for Best Christian Writing in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006. She has published 7 books and over 600 articles.

She has been interviewed on PrimeTime Live, the Diane Rehm Show, the 700 Club, PBS, CNN, NBC, Fox News, and by Time, Newsweek, the New Republic, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the New York Times. She has also appeared as a speaker over 400 times, at places like Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Wellesley, Cornell, Calvin, Baylor, and Westmont; at the Smithsonian Institute, the Aspen Institute, Washington National Cathedral, the Los Angeles Times Book Festival, the American Academy of Religion, the Veritas Forum, the Family Research Council, and the National Right to Life Committee.

Gregory Wolfe, Writer in Residence at Seattle Pacific University; Founder/Editor Image
Gregory Wolfe is Writer in Residence at Seattle Pacific University and the founder and editor of Image, one of America’s leading literary quarterlies. He also directs the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at SPU. He received his M.A. in English literature from Oxford University.

Recently, he served as a judge for the National Book Awards. Wolfe has published essays, reviews, and articles in numerous journals. His essays have been anthologized in collections such as The Best Christian Writing and The Best Catholic Writing. Among his books are Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and Mystery, Malcolm Muggeridge: A Biography and Sacred Passion: The Art of William Schickel. Wolfe is also the editor of The New Religious Humanists: A Reader and the co-author of several more books. A collection of essays, Beauty Will Save the World, will be published by ISI Books in 2008. Wolfe is currently writing a book entitled The Company of Good Letters: How Erasmus and His Circle of Renaissance Christian Humanists Shaped the Modern World.

Joseph Pearce, Writer-in-Residence and Assistant Professor of Literature, Ave Maria University
The internationally acclaimed author of 14 books, which include bestsellers such as G.K. Chesterton: Wisdom and Innocence (Ignatius, 1997), Literary Converts (Ignatius, 2000), Tolkien: Man and Myth (Ignatius, 2001), Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile (Baker Books, 2001), and Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc (Ignatius, 2002), Joseph Pearce is a world-recognized biographer of modern Christian literary figures. Pearce’s books have been published and translated into over eight languages.

As Writer in Residence and professor of literature at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida since September 2001, Pearce also serves as Editor of the Saint Austin Review, a trans-Atlantic monthly cultural review. He is also contributing writer to a number of newspapers and magazines in the United Kingdom, U.S. and Canada. He is also a regular guest on national and international television and radio programs, and has served as consultant for film documentaries on J.R.R. Tolkien and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Dr. Louis Markos, Author and Professor of English, Houston Baptist University
Louis Markos is a Professor in English at Houston Baptist University, where he teaches courses on British Romantic Poetry, Literary Theory, the Classics, Victorian Poetry and Prose, C. S. Lewis, Lord of the Rings, Epic, and Film. He holds an MA and PhD in English from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Markos is the author of Lewis Agonistes: How C. S. Lewis can Train us to Wrestle with the Modern and Postmodern World, and of two new books due out in 2007: From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics and Pressing Forward: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age. He has also produced two lecture series with the Teaching Company, and has had articles published in such journals as Christianity Today, Touchstone, Theology Today, Christian Research Journal, Mythlore, Christian Scholar’s Review, Saint Austin Review, and American Arts Quarterly. He has spoken on such topics as C. S. Lewis, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and Dante in over a dozen states and in Oxford.

Norman Stone, Producer/Director

Tony Jones, Author and National Coordinator of Emergent Village
Tony is the national coordinator of Emergent Village (www.emergentvillage.com), and a doctoral fellow and senior research fellow in practical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of many books, including Postmodern Youth Ministry: Exploring Cultural Shift, Cultivating Authentic Community, Creating Holistic Connections and The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life, and he is a sought after speaker and consultant in the areas of emerging church, postmodernism, and spirituality.

Dr. Thomas Howard taught English literature for 25 years at St John’s Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts after earning a Ph.D. from New York University. He previously has taught at St. John’s seminary in Boston, at Gordon College in Massachussetts, at St. Bernard’s School in New York, and at The Kingsmead School in England.

Howard is highly acclaimed writer and scholar. Dr. Howard’s articles have appeared for the last 30 years in the New York Times Book Review, Redbook, Modern Age and many scholarly publications. He was a friend of C.S. Lewis and an expert on the work of Charles Williams, both of whom, along with Tolkien, were members of The Inklings. His books including Christ the Tiger (1967), Chance or the Dance? (1969), Hallowed be This House (1976), Evangelical is Not Enough (1984), If Your Mind Wanders at Mass (1995), On Being Catholic (1997), and The Secret of New York Revealed.