Presenters
Chuck Colson
In 1976, after serving seven months of a one-to-three year sentence on Watergate-related charges, former Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon Chuck Colson founded Prison Fellowship, which, together with churches of all confessions and denominations, has become the world's largest outreach to prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families, with ministry taking place in 113 countries around the globe.
After observing the role moral failure and broken families played in contributing to the problem of crime, Colson sensed God's calling to comment on the culture through the written and spoken word. He has written more than 30 books, including his most recent book, The Faith, and the groundbreaking 1999 bestseller How Now Shall We Live, co-written with Nancy Pearcey. His autobiographical book Born Again was one of the nation's best-selling books of all genres in 1976 and was made into a feature-length film.
In recognition of his work, Colson received the prestigious Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1993, donating the $1 million prize to Prison Fellowship. And in 2008, Colson was honored by President Bush with the Presidential Citizens Medal for his years of work with prisoners and their families, which Colson accepted on behalf of the volunteers and staff of Prison Fellowship.
Dr. Del Tackett
Dr. Del Tackett is former president of the Focus on the Family Institute and a former Senior Vice President of Focus on the Family. He is also the chief spokesperson for Focus on the Family's The Truth Project—a nationwide initiative designed to bring the Christian worldview to the body of Christ.
Dr. Tackett served more than 20 years in the United States Air Force. During the George H. W. Bush administration he served at the White House, where he was appointed by President Bush as the director of technical planning for the National Security Council. He now works with Coral Ridge Ministries as TV co-host for the show "Cross Examine." He still works with The Truth Project, and publishes to his blog, Truth Observed.
Dr. Tackett is an adjunct professor at New Geneva Theological Seminary and Summit Ministries. As a professor, Dr. Tackett has taught more than 30 undergraduate and graduate courses at three different institutions over a 12 year period. He is also an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. Dr. Tackett holds three earned degrees (D.M., Colorado Technical University; M.S., Auburn University; B.S., Kansas State University).
Dr. Tackett has published a variety of written works including articles in Focus on the Family magazine that address worldview and cultural issues.
John Stonestreet
John Stonestreet's passion is to illuminate a Biblical worldview for today's culture. He's a speaker, writer, cultural commentator, and collaborator of worldview initiatives. In his shared role with the Colson Center/Breakpoint and Summit Ministries, John directs conferenes and curriculum projects, speaks to groups nationally and internationally, consults on worldview education for schools and churches, and appears frequently on web and radio broadcasts.
As the new host of The Point, a daily national radio program, John provides thought-provoking commentaries on current events and life issues from a Biblical worldview. This short-feature speaks to listeners right where they're at...facing challenges and cultural questions that all of us deal with on a daily basis. John holds degrees from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (IL) and Bryan College (TN), and is the co-author of Making Sense of Your World: A Biblical Worldview (Sheffield Press).
He and his wife Sarah have three daughters and a dog, and live in Colorado Springs, CO. Connect with John at ThePointRadio.org.
Dr. Robert George
Professor George has served on the President's Council on Bioethics and as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. Currently he serves on UNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
George is the author of In Defense of Natural Law, Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality, and The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion and Morality in Crisis. Professor George is a recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal and many other honors, including the Stanley Kelley, Jr. Teaching Award from Princeton's Department of Politics.
He holds honorary doctorates of law, ethics, science, letters, civil law, humane letters, and juridical science Professor George was the 2007 John Dewey Lecturer in Philosophy of Law at Harvard University and the 2008 Judge Guido Calabresi Lecturer at Yale University.
Michael Miller
Michael Miller is the Director of Programs at the Acton Institute and also oversees Acton's international work. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame, has an MA from Nagoya University's Graduate School of International Development (Japan), an MA in philosophy from Franciscan University, and an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird (The American Graduate School of International Management).
Before coming to Acton, he spent three years at Ave Maria College of the Americas in Nicaragua where he taught philosophy and political science and was the chair of the philosophy and theology department. He has almost 10 years of international experience and has lived and traveled in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
He has been published in the Washington Times, The Detroit News, The LA Daily News, and Crisis. His research interests include political economy, moral philosophy, economic development, and political theory.
Host, Eric Metaxas
Eric Metaxas is the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery and the recent biography Bonhoeffer: Martyr, Spy, Prophet, Priest. His writing was first published in Atlantic Monthly, and has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Regeneration Quarterly, Christianity Today, National Review Online, Beliefnet and First Things.
The American Booksellers Association chose Metaxas's The Birthday ABC as a 1995 Pick of the List and Amazon.com honored his Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving with their Number One Bestseller Award for Thanksgiving 1999. He has been featured numerous times on CNN, The Fox News Channel and other television networks, and has been a guest on NPR.
He is the founder and host of Socrates in the City: Conversations on the Examined Life, a monthly event of entertaining and thought provoking discussions that feature such speakers as Sir John Polkinghorne, Dr. Armand Nicholi, Os Guinness, Lauren F. Winner and Peter Kreeft. Metaxas serves on the vestry of Calvary/St. George's Episcopal Church, and lives in Manhattan, New York, with his wife and daughter.
In 1976, after serving seven months of a one-to-three year sentence on Watergate-related charges, former Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon Chuck Colson founded Prison Fellowship, which, together with churches of all confessions and denominations, has become the world's largest outreach to prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families, with ministry taking place in 113 countries around the globe.
After observing the role moral failure and broken families played in contributing to the problem of crime, Colson sensed God's calling to comment on the culture through the written and spoken word. He has written more than 30 books, including his most recent book, The Faith, and the groundbreaking 1999 bestseller How Now Shall We Live, co-written with Nancy Pearcey. His autobiographical book Born Again was one of the nation's best-selling books of all genres in 1976 and was made into a feature-length film.
In recognition of his work, Colson received the prestigious Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1993, donating the $1 million prize to Prison Fellowship. And in 2008, Colson was honored by President Bush with the Presidential Citizens Medal for his years of work with prisoners and their families, which Colson accepted on behalf of the volunteers and staff of Prison Fellowship.
Dr. Del Tackett
Dr. Del Tackett is former president of the Focus on the Family Institute and a former Senior Vice President of Focus on the Family. He is also the chief spokesperson for Focus on the Family's The Truth Project—a nationwide initiative designed to bring the Christian worldview to the body of Christ.
Dr. Tackett served more than 20 years in the United States Air Force. During the George H. W. Bush administration he served at the White House, where he was appointed by President Bush as the director of technical planning for the National Security Council. He now works with Coral Ridge Ministries as TV co-host for the show "Cross Examine." He still works with The Truth Project, and publishes to his blog, Truth Observed.
Dr. Tackett is an adjunct professor at New Geneva Theological Seminary and Summit Ministries. As a professor, Dr. Tackett has taught more than 30 undergraduate and graduate courses at three different institutions over a 12 year period. He is also an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. Dr. Tackett holds three earned degrees (D.M., Colorado Technical University; M.S., Auburn University; B.S., Kansas State University).
Dr. Tackett has published a variety of written works including articles in Focus on the Family magazine that address worldview and cultural issues.
John Stonestreet
John Stonestreet's passion is to illuminate a Biblical worldview for today's culture. He's a speaker, writer, cultural commentator, and collaborator of worldview initiatives. In his shared role with the Colson Center/Breakpoint and Summit Ministries, John directs conferenes and curriculum projects, speaks to groups nationally and internationally, consults on worldview education for schools and churches, and appears frequently on web and radio broadcasts.
As the new host of The Point, a daily national radio program, John provides thought-provoking commentaries on current events and life issues from a Biblical worldview. This short-feature speaks to listeners right where they're at...facing challenges and cultural questions that all of us deal with on a daily basis. John holds degrees from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (IL) and Bryan College (TN), and is the co-author of Making Sense of Your World: A Biblical Worldview (Sheffield Press).
He and his wife Sarah have three daughters and a dog, and live in Colorado Springs, CO. Connect with John at ThePointRadio.org.
Dr. Robert George
Professor George has served on the President's Council on Bioethics and as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. Currently he serves on UNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
George is the author of In Defense of Natural Law, Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality, and The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion and Morality in Crisis. Professor George is a recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal and many other honors, including the Stanley Kelley, Jr. Teaching Award from Princeton's Department of Politics.
He holds honorary doctorates of law, ethics, science, letters, civil law, humane letters, and juridical science Professor George was the 2007 John Dewey Lecturer in Philosophy of Law at Harvard University and the 2008 Judge Guido Calabresi Lecturer at Yale University.
Michael Miller
Michael Miller is the Director of Programs at the Acton Institute and also oversees Acton's international work. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame, has an MA from Nagoya University's Graduate School of International Development (Japan), an MA in philosophy from Franciscan University, and an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird (The American Graduate School of International Management).
Before coming to Acton, he spent three years at Ave Maria College of the Americas in Nicaragua where he taught philosophy and political science and was the chair of the philosophy and theology department. He has almost 10 years of international experience and has lived and traveled in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
He has been published in the Washington Times, The Detroit News, The LA Daily News, and Crisis. His research interests include political economy, moral philosophy, economic development, and political theory.
Host, Eric Metaxas
Eric Metaxas is the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery and the recent biography Bonhoeffer: Martyr, Spy, Prophet, Priest. His writing was first published in Atlantic Monthly, and has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Regeneration Quarterly, Christianity Today, National Review Online, Beliefnet and First Things.
The American Booksellers Association chose Metaxas's The Birthday ABC as a 1995 Pick of the List and Amazon.com honored his Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving with their Number One Bestseller Award for Thanksgiving 1999. He has been featured numerous times on CNN, The Fox News Channel and other television networks, and has been a guest on NPR.
He is the founder and host of Socrates in the City: Conversations on the Examined Life, a monthly event of entertaining and thought provoking discussions that feature such speakers as Sir John Polkinghorne, Dr. Armand Nicholi, Os Guinness, Lauren F. Winner and Peter Kreeft. Metaxas serves on the vestry of Calvary/St. George's Episcopal Church, and lives in Manhattan, New York, with his wife and daughter.
