Jerry Root

Jerry Root, associate professor of Christian education at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., co-edited The Quotable C.S. Lewis (Tyndale House, 1990). Root’s master’s and doctoral dissertations were on Lewis, on whom he’s taught courses for 25 years.

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Lyle Dorsett

Lyle Dorsett is Billy Graham Professor of Evangelism at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., and the foremost scholar on Lewis’ wife, Joy Davidman. Dorsett is author of A Love Observed: Joy Davidman’s Life and Marriage to C.S. Lewis (Harold Shaw Publishers, 1998) and And God Came In: The Extraordinary Story of Joy Davidman, Her Life and […]

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“Panel Study of American Religion and Ethnicity”

Sociologist Michael Emerson and a team of researchers at Rice University conducted a national study on multiracial Protestant and Catholic denominations. They found that more than 9 in 10 U.S. churches remain segregated. They analyzed 20 multiracial congregations in the U.S. and identified seven models for how those ethnically diverse congregations came to be.

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Winston E. Gooden

Winston E. Gooden is the dean of the School of Psychology at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., as well as a professor in the school.

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Gary Olsen

The Rev. Gary Olsen of Rolling Hills Community Church of Lago Vista, Texas, taught a workshop called “Crowning ‘Prince Caspian’: An Evangelism and Discipleship Growth Opportunity” for clergy and lay people. It was sponsored by the Richard and Julia Wilke Institute for Discipleship.

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L. Roy Taylor

L. Roy Taylor serves on the executive committee of the National Association of Evangelicals, which includes 43,000 congregations from 50 member denominations, individual congregations from an additional 27 denominations and 250 parachurch ministries and educational institutions.

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Andrew Finstuen

Andrew Finstuen is an associate professor of history and director of the Honors College at Boise State University in Idaho. He is the author of Original Sin and Everyday Protestants: The Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham and Paul Tillich in an Age of Anxiety.

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Steven P. Miller

Steven P. Miller teaches history at Webster University and Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South and several articles and book chapters about Graham, including a 2006 article for George Mason University’s History News Network titled “Billy Graham: Have Journalists Given Us an Accurate Picture?“

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