Last Updated Mar 2010
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Christopher Brooks is the Senior Pastor of Evangel Ministries, a 1500 member church in Detroit,Michigan. After graduating from Michigan State University with a B.A. in Finance, he completed his theological training at Michigan Theological Seminary. He is also a graduate of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics at Oxford University. Christopher is the host of Equipped for Life, a daily radio broadcast, and is the founder of the Detroit Bible Institute, a seminary preparatory institution targeting inner city Christians. He is currently pursuing an M.A. in Christian Apologetics at Biola University. |
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Greg Clarke is co-founder and Director (with John Dickson) of the Centre for Public Christianity. His doctorate is in literature, with special interest in how theology is discussed in the arts and humanities. Greg has written books and studies on topics ranging from the Bible to sex to The Da Vinci Code. He is author of over 200 articles and reviews in publications such as The Sydney Morning Herald, Southerly, kategoria, Books and Culture (US) and onlineopinion.com.au. Greg splits his time between writing, academic work and public lecturing. Greg lives in Botany in the southeastern area of Sydney, Australia. |
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John Dickson lives in Sydney, Australia, and is Director of the Centre for Public Christianity, a research and media organization promoting the public understanding of the Christian faith. He has a First Class Honours degree in theology and a PhD in ancient history from Macquarie University, where he is now an Honorary Associate of the Department of Ancient History. His first book appeared in 1993 and he has since produced a dozen best-selling titles and a major academic work on the origins of Christianity. His book The Christ Files is now a TV documentary, shot in eight countries. |
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John Lennox is a professor of Mathematics at Oxford University and Adjunct Professor at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. He is also a Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College, Oxford. Professor Lennox lectures worldwide and has written books on Christian apologetics, including God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? and Christianity: Opium or Truth? (the latter co-authored with David Gooding). In the past two years, Professor Lennox has debated a number of the world’s leading atheists including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. |
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Margaret Manning is an itinerant speaker and staff writer at RZIM in Atlanta. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology, with honor, from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, and then her Masters of Divinity degree, summa cum laude, from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. Prior to working at RZIM, Margaret served in pastoral roles focusing on teaching, discipleship, spiritual formation, and pastoral care and counseling. She is an ordained minister and is passionate about communicating the Gospel in ways that engage both heart and mind. |
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Stuart McAllister isVicePresident forTraining and Special Projects at RZIM’s international headquarters in Atlanta. Born in Scotland, the desire to serve the Lord and to deepen his understanding of the faith led him to Operation Mobilization in 1978. OM sent him to Yugoslavia where he was imprisoned for forty days for distributing Christian literature. Undeterred, he continued to preach the Gospel in communist countries, which resulted in several more imprisonments. He was also general secretary of the European Evangelical Alliance. After twenty years in Vienna, Austria, Stuart joined RZIM in January of 1998. |
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John Njoroge is an apologist with RZIM based in Atlanta. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Talbot School of Theology, Biola University in La Mirada, California, and earned his undergraduate degree from Philadelphia Biblical University. Before embarking on his studies in the U.S., John worked with street and slum children in Nairobi, assisting in recruitment and teaching sixth graders at a mission school started for such children. He has served on church staff in Kenya and the United States. John has organized and led leadership training conferences in Kenya and raised funds for wells and other relief projects there. |
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