Featured Authors
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Peter Holmes has combined a career in business and management consultancy with service in the church and international mission. He holds an MA in pastoral psychology and a doctorate in therapeutic faith community. He has worked in Christian mission in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe specializing in helping people find deeper wholeness in Christ. He has developed a therapeutic discipleship program available in seminars, and authored several books. He has joint responsibility for teaching, preaching, and pastoral care at Christ Church Deal, Kent, UK, the fifth church he has helped to plant. |
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Randal Rauser is associate professor of historical theology at Taylor Seminary, Edmonton, Canada and was granted Taylor's first annual teaching award for Outstanding Service to Students" in 2005. He authored Faith Lacking Understanding, the forthcoming Theology in Search of Foundations and coauthored Christian Philosophy AZ. He has had articles appear in International Journal of Systematic Theology, Heythrop Journal and Christian Scholars Review. He enjoys speaking on topics of theology, apologetics and popular culture. He is married to Jasper and they have a 6yearold daughter, Jamie and a lhasa apso named Sonny. |
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J.D. Payne a national missionary with the North American Mission Board and an assistant professor of Evangelism and Church Planting in the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism, and Church Growth at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Prior to his arrival at Southern, he taught at Crossroads Bible College in Indianapolis, Indiana. He holds memberships in the Evangelical Theological Society, Evangelical Missiological Society, and American Society for Church Growth. He has written numerous articles and reviews in the area of missions and evangelism. He is also the founder of the web-based resource northamericanmissions.org. He and his wife Sarah live in Louisville, Kentucky and have three young children, Hannah, Rachel, and Joel. |
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Matthew S. Stanford PhD holds a doctoral degree in neuroscience from Baylor University. He is a nationally recognized researcher and speaker in the area of aggressive and impulsive behavior, having published over fifty peer reviewed articles in leading medical and scientific journals. In August 2003, he returned to Baylor University as a professor in the Psychology and Neuroscience department where he presently serves as the director of the Doctoral Program (Ph.D.) in Psychology. He is an active member of the American Psychological Association, Society for Psycho physiological Research, and the International Society of Research on Aggression. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and serves as the secretary and treasurer for the International Society for Research on Impulsivity. |
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Udo Middlemann was born in Germany in 1940 and has lived in Switzerland for over thirty years. He is a university lecturer by special invitation in various countries; consultant and principle speaker on “Ethics for a Civil Society” for the Russian Ministry of Education and is at present the president of the Francis A. Schaeffer Foundation in New York and Switzerland. |
