20 Years of Reasonable Faith

 William Lane Craig is Emeritus Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California. He has authored or edited over thirty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus; Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom; Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology; and God, Time and Eternity, as well as over a hundred articles in professional journals of philosophy and theology, including The Journal of Philosophy, New Testament Studies, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy, and British Journal for Philosophy of Science. In 2016 Dr. Craig was named by The Best Schools as one of the fifty most influential living philosophers. 

 Dr. Frank Turek is a dynamic speaker and award-winning author or coauthor of five books: Hollywood Heroes How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God, 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 secular college campuses that often begin hostile to his message. He has also debated several prominent atheists including Christopher Hitchens and Michael Shermer, Founding Publisher of Skeptic Magazine. 

Dr. Johnson received his PhD in Theological Studies with an emphasis in Philosophy of Religion from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2020. He serves as a university campus missionary with Ratio Christi. He also teaches classes for Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary  

 A noted mathematician and philosopher, William A. Dembski is a Founding and Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture and a Distinguished Fellow with the Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. His most recent books relating to intelligent design include Being as Communion: A Metaphysics of Information (2014), Evolutionary Informatics (2017, co-authored with Robert Marks and Winston Ewert), and the second edition of The Design Inference (2023, co-authored with Winston Ewert).

Dr. Dembski has taught at Northwestern University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Dallas, and Southwestern Seminary. He has done postdoctoral work in mathematics at MIT, in physics at the University of Chicago, and in computer science at Princeton University. Dr. Dembski was previously an Associate Research Professor in the Conceptual Foundations of Science at Baylor University, where he headed the first intelligent design think-tank at a major research university: The Michael Polanyi Center.

 Corey Miller, PhD, is the President/CEO of Ratio Christi (2015-Present). While he grew up in Utah as a seventh generation Mormon, he came to Christ in 1988. He has served on pastoral staff at four churches and has taught nearly 100 college courses in philosophy, theology, rhetoric, and comparative religions at various places (Purdue, Indiana University, Multnomah University and Ecola Bible College). 

Mike Licona is Professor of New Testament Studies at Houston Christian University and President of Risen Jesus, Inc. He has a Ph.D. in New Testament Studies from the University of Pretoria, which he earned with distinction. Mike is the author of numerous books and was interviewed by Lee Strobel in his book In Defense of Jesus. Gary Habermas claims that Mike’s large book on the resurrection of Jesus is currently the best ever written on the subject. In 2017, Mike was elected to membership in the prestigious Society for New Testament Studies. He has spoken on more than 100 university campuses and has appeared on dozens of radio and television programs. 

Dr. Andrew “Ike” Shepardson holds a PhD from the University of Toronto. He leads the BA and MA programs in Applied Apologetics at Colorado Christian University and is adjunct faculty at Denver Seminary. Dr. Shepardson is an elder at Living Way Fellowship in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. His work has been published in Philosophia Christi, Quadrum, The Denver Journal, Orthodoxy in Dialogue, and the Toronto Journal of Theology. He is author of Who’s Afraid of the Unmoved Mover?: Postmodernism and Natural Theology, and coauthor (with Dr. Douglas Groothuis) of The Knowledge of God in the World and the Word: An Introduction to Classical Apologetics. His personal website is IkeShepardson.com. 

 Like a lot of youth today, Nate grew up in church but left after graduating high school. While his pastors had spent a lot of time teaching Nate the content of the Bible, no one had explained to him why any of it was true. After converting to Christianity as an adult, Nate immediately recognized the need to truly understand Jesus’ call to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves (Matthew 10:16). In 2013 he created Wise Disciple to help Christians effectively navigate their faith in today’s culture.

Today, Nate is a ministry leader and speaker. His background in preaching and pastoring as well as his degrees in Religion and Curriculum and Instruction provide Nate a unique insight into the teaching and communication methods of Christ. Nate’s vision is that all Christians think, speak, and act more like Christ in order to make disciples in the 21st century. 

Dr. Tim Stratton is the founder and president of FreeThinking Ministries, a Christian apologetics organization devoted to equipping believers, engaging skeptics, and defending truth with both reason and grace. A theologian, philosopher, and author, Tim has spent his career helping people see that faith and reason are not enemies but partners in the pursuit of truth.

Tim earned his Ph.D. in Theological and Apologetic Studies from North-West University (Potchefstroom, South Africa), where his research focused on Molinism and the logical coherence of human freedom and divine sovereignty. His work bridges the gap between academic theology and practical ministry, making complex philosophical and theological ideas accessible to everyday believers. He is the author of Human Freedom, Divine Knowledge, and Mere Molinism. 

Raised in a non-Christian home, Tawa Anderson came to faith in high school. He was called to ministry, and served as English Pastor at Edmonton Chinese Baptist Church from 2001-2008. After completing his PhD, Dr. Anderson taught at Oklahoma Baptist University from 2011-2022 before joining the faculty at NOBTS. Tawa is the author of Why Believe? Christian Apologetics for a Skeptical Age (B&H Academic, 2021) and co-author of An Introduction to Christian Worldview: Pursuing God’s Perspective in a Pluralistic World (IVP Academic, 2017); and editor and contributing author to Truth: Lectures from Defend the Faith 2025 (DeWard, 2025).