Jessica Anders is a teacher in the Frisco Independent School District in Texas. She teaches special-needs middle schooler students and has previous experience in camping and youth ministry. She lives in Little Elm, Texas, with her husband Grant— who loves to laugh at (we mean with) her adventures—and their dog, Penelope.

J. Daryl Charles, PhD, is an affiliate scholar of the John Jay Institute, serves as a contributing editor of Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy and the journal Touchstone, and has served as the Acton Institute Affiliated Scholar in Theology and Ethics. Charles is author, co-author, editor or co-editor of 23 books, including Virtue amidst Vice (Sheffield Academic Press, 1997), The Unformed Conscience of Evangelicalism (InterVarsity Press, 2002), Retrieving the Natural Law (Eerdmans, 2008), War, Peace and Christianity (Crossway, 2010), Natural Law and Religious Freedom (Routledge, 2018), America’s Wars and the Just War Tradition (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019), and most recently, Just War and Christian Traditions (University of Notre Dame Press, 2022), and Our Secular Vocation (B&H Academic, 2023). He is also the translator (German to English) of Claus Westermann’s Roots of Wisdom (Westminster John Knox Press, 1995).

Charles has taught at Taylor University and Union University and was a 2013/14 visiting
professor in the honors program at Berry College. Has served as director and senior fellow of the Bryan Institute for Critical Thought and Practice, as the 2007/8 William E. Simon visiting fellow in religion and public life at the James Madison Program, Princeton University, and as the 2003/4 visiting fellow of the Institute for Faith and Learning, Baylor University. Charles’s research interests include faith and public life, the natural law, the ethics of war and peace, and criminal justice ethics. Before entering the university classroom full-time he did public-policy work in criminal justice in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Liam Atchison serves as Senior Vice President of Global Scholars. Liam is a historian who has edited books, monographs, and journals. Most recently, he contributed articles to three encyclopedias: War and Religion (ABC-CLIO, 2017), Evangelical America (ABC-CLIO, 2017), and Religion and Contemporary Politics: A Global Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO,2019).

Liam received his Ph.D. from Kansas State University where he studied under the venerable historian Robert D. Linder. He received his Master of Theology degree from Dallas Theological Seminary. Liam graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Kansas State University. He is also a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Alpha Theta honorary societies. Liam was the founding editor of the literary and cultural journal Mars Hill Review.

Liam and his wife of more than years, Precious, live in Overland Park, Kansas. He and Precious wrote a book together entitled Grief (NavPress, 1995). They have two grown children and three grandchildren, all living on the West Coast.

At home in Kansas, they live with a Schnoodle who obsesses about squirrels. Liam lives and dies with the baseball Royals and bleeds K-State purple. He fiddles with an English “translation” of John Ponet’s Short Treatise of Political Power (forthcoming from Stone Tower Press), because he thinks people may find it useful very soon.

Peter C. Appelbaum, MD, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Pathology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. After more than four decades in infectious disease research, Dr. Appelbaum is spending his retirement years writing and translating books on modern-day Jewish military history. He is the author of Loyalty Betrayed and Loyal Sons (Vallentine-Mitchell, 2014) and, together with James Scott, has translated an anthology of war essays and poems by Kurt Tucholsky (Prayer after the Slaughter, Berlinica, 2015).

Keith Bates, Ph.D., is professor of history at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. In addition to his work on the intersection of religion and politics, he writes about the history of evangelicalism and fundamentalism. He is the author of Mainstreaming Fundamentalism: John R. Rice and Fundamentalism’s Public Reemergence (University of Tennessee Press, 2021).

Wayne Braudrick, Ph.D., is the author of numerous books, Senior Pastor of Frisco Bible Church in Frisco, Texas, and host of All the Difference, a half-hour weekday radio program and podcast. He earned his Ph.D. through Middlesex University, London in 2005. Previously, he had attended Dallas Theological Seminary (M.A.B.S.) and Baylor University (B.A.).

Nicole DeRosa Cannella began her writing career with The Ribbit Exhibit, a children’s book that explores bullying and compassion, soon to become a series. Her years of teaching, and working in theatre, led her to combine her love of children and the arts into writing form; focusing on subjects that aren’t always easy to discuss and presenting them in ways that children can identify with.

Her most valued role is raising her three wonderful children alongside her husband. She lives in the Boston area, and is working on several writing projects. She feels blessed to have collaborated with Dorian and Melissa and prays that Leaving a Mark offers hope to children and their families facing pediatric cancer while aiding in the funding to eradicate it altogether.

Antoine Capet, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, was Head of British Studies at the University of Rouen (France) until July 2014, when he became Emeritus. After submitting his Doctorat d’État on the British governing classes and social reform, 1931–1951 (published 1991), he continued to concentrate his research on Britain in and before the Second World War, more specifically on Churchill in recent years. His 862-page Churchill, le dictionnaire was published by Éditions Perrin, Paris, in January 2018. Professor Capet has been Editor of the ‘Britain since 1914’ section of the Royal Historical Society Bibliography since 2001 and he sat on the International Board of Twentieth Century British History (Oxford University Press) from 2002 to 2020.

John DeLancey is a pastor and founder of Biblical Israel Tours, a ministry designed to help people have a firsthand experience of Israel and other Bible lands. He has led nearly 50 tours of the Holy Land and has excavated at multiple archaeological sites in Israel.

He holds a degree in Biblical Studies from Cedarville University, a Master of Divinity degree from Westminster Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Trinity Seminary. He has studied for one year at the Jerusalem University College in Israel. He and his wife, Sue, have thee children.

Timothy J. Demy, Ph.D., is a professor at the U.S. Naval War College. He previously served as an officer in the U.S. Navy for 27 years. He is the author and co-author of numerous books and articles on a variety of topics in military history, ethics, religion, and security.

Donald Elder, Ph.D., is professor of history and chair of the History Department at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico. His undergraduate degree in history is from the University of Northern Iowa. He received the M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. He began his history career as a historian of the American Space Program and currently concentrates his research efforts on the American Civil War. He is the author and editor ofnumerous books and articles.

Robert Freiberg, M.Div., Th.M., D.Min., is an adjunct professor at Central Baptist Theological Seminary. He previously taught theology and church history at Southern California Seminary. He also serves as editor of the AGC Journal. He served as an active duty Navy chaplain for 27 years.

John Gibbon was born in 1949 in Manchester, UK. He was an undergraduate at the University of Birmingham (1967-70) and then received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Manchester in 1973. He has lived in London since 1980 when he joined the Mathematics Department of Imperial College London. He was promoted to full Professor in 1990 and served as a Consul (2007-10). Consuls are senior Faculty who are elected to manage issues such as the academic promotions process, academic standards in appointments and the award of prizes. He is now an Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics.

His area of research is in the theory of turbulent fluid flows, with current collaborators in the United Kingdom, United States, France, and India. He has published more than 125 research papers and coauthored two books; Applied Analysis of the Navier-Stokes Equations (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and Nonlinear Waves and Solutions (Academic Press, 1983) and is the author of Science and the Knowledge of God (Lampion Press, 2015).

Sandra Glahn is professor of Media Arts and Worship at Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS). She holds a Master of Theology degree from DTS and a Ph.D. in The Humanities—Aesthetic Studies from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Dr. Glahn is the author of Nobody’s Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament (IVP Academic). She is the creator and editor of Vindicating the Vixens (Kregel Academic) and the author of the twelve titles in the Coffee Cup Bible Study series (AMG). Additionally, Glahn is the author of a medical suspense novel, Informed Consent (Cook).

Born and educated in Canada and France, Carolyn Gossage is the author of numerous books on art and history. Among her numerous titles are: The Accidental Captives—The Story of Seven Women Alone in Nazi Germany, Greatcoats and Glamour Boots—Canadian Women in Uniform 1939-45, and Basilicas of Ethiopia—An Architectural History.

Francis X. “Frank” Gumerlock (Ph.D. historical theology, Saint Louis University, 2004) teaches Latin in Colorado. He is the author of nine books, many of which are translations of early and medieval Latin texts on the Book of Revelation and the theology of grace, including Carolingian Commentaries on the Apocalypse by Theodulf and Smaragdus (2019), Tyconius. Exposition of the Apocalypse (2017), and Gottschalk and a Medieval Predestination Controversy: Texts Translated from the Latin (2010). His website containing links to his books and articles is francisgumerlock.

Porter Halyburton is a native of North Carolina and a graduate of Davidson College, the University of Georgia, and the U.S. Naval War College, Porter Halyburton served more than 20 years as a naval officer and naval aviator including seven and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. He later taught as the U.S. Naval War College from which he is now Professor of Strategy Emeritus. He is the author of Reflections on Captivity: A Tapestry of Stories by a Vietnam War POW and is an active writer, speaker, world traveler, potter, and woodworker. 

Joseph M. Hatfield (Ph.D. University of Cambridge) is the Associate Chair of the Department of Cyber Science at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he teaches courses on the technical foundations of cyber-security, human factors in cyber operations, and intelligence and national security. As an active-duty naval intelligence officer with more than a decade of overseas operational experience, his intelligence research has informed senior governmental decision makers, including analysis sent directly to the President of the United States. His research is published widely in peer-reviewed academic journals. He is also a recipient of the Rear Admiral Thomas A. Brooks Intelligence Officer of the Year Award and the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement.

John B. Hattendorf, D.Phil., D.Litt., is the Historian of the Rhode Island Society Sons of the Revolution. In addition, he also serves as Historian of the Rhode Island Society of Colonial Wars and Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati. He is senior advisor at the U.S. Naval War College’s eponymous John B. Hattendorf Center for Maritime Historical Research and Ernest J. King Professor Emeritus of Maritime History. While holding the E. J. King chair from 1984 to 2016, he was chairman of the Naval War College’s Advanced Research Department, 1986-2003; chairman, Maritime History Department, and director of the Naval War College Museum, 2003-2016.

As a naval officer, 1964-1973, he saw combat action while serving in destroyers during the Vietnam War. He holds degrees in history from Kenyon College (A.B., 1964), Brown University (A.M., 1971), and the University of Oxford (D.Phil., 1979; D.Litt., 2016). His numerous awards include the Anderson Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the United Kingdom’s Society of Nautical Research (2017), the U.S. Navy’s Distinguished Civilian Service Medal (2016) and Superior Civilian Service Medal (2006, 2016), the American Library Association’s Dartmouth Medal (2007), and the Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (2000).

Additionally, in 2011 the U.S. Naval War College named its Prize for Distinguished Historical Research in his honor and in 2017 its Center for Maritime Historical Research. He was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 2019. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of more than fifty volumes, including the four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History (2007).

Thomas Ice serves as Executive Director of the Pre-Trib Research Center, which he founded in 1994 with Dr. Tim LaHaye to research, teach, and defend the pretribulational rapture and related Bible prophecy doctrines. Ice has authored and co-authored over 30 books, written hundreds of articles, and is a frequent conference speaker. Among his most popular books are Charting the Bible Chronologically: A Visual Guide to God’s Unfolding Plan (co-author with Ed Hindson), and Charting the End Times: A Visual Guide to Bible Prophecy (co-author with Tim LaHaye) and The Case for Zionism: Why Christians Should Support Israel. He has served as a pastor for 17 years. Dr. Ice has a B.A. from Howard Payne University, a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from Tyndale Theological Seminary, and did postdoctoral work at the University of Wales.

John Edward Jackson, Captain, U.S. Navy (ret.), is one of the Naval War College’s longest-serving professors. His 53 years of combined service as an active-duty naval officer and as a federal government civilian includes Naval War College service of more than 32 years. He is the editor of several books on naval history and the author of numerous articles.

Mark A. Jumper, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Director of Chaplaincy and Military Affairs Regent University School of Divinity. He is a third-generation Presbyterian minister. Prior to coming to his present position, he served as a pastor and as a U.S. Navy chaplain for twenty-four years.

He earned the Ph.D. in Humanities at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, writing a dissertation on the just war tradition, specifically researching the concept of justice after war. He earned an M.Div. at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, and a B.A. in History at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also studied at the Naval War College, the University of Connecticut, the University of Oklahoma, Southeast Missouri State University, and the University of Missouri. He is the author of numerous articles and encyclopedia entries and co-editor of The Holy Spirit and the Reformation Legacy.

Jumper has served as Endorser for Chaplains for the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) and as National Secretary for the Military Chaplains Association. He also served as moderator of the EPC presbyteries of Mid-America and Florida. He was the first pastor of Diamondhead Community Church (PCUS), Mississippi, and second pastor of Hope EPC in Grayslake, Illinois. He and his wife, Ginger, have seven children.

Kathy J. Langston, PhD, teaches professional communication at the University of South Carolina. A native of Greenville, South Carolina, Kathy embraced military spouse life and enjoyed her ministry with Navy and Marine Corps spouses. She taught university religion and English courses to military students for over fifteen years. Her degrees include: Doctor of Philosophy in English, Master of Arts, Master of Divinity, and Bachelor of Arts. The Langstons are the parents of three children, two daughters-in- law, and three grandchildren. The Langstons have been married for over thirty-seven years.

Michael W. Langston, PhD, DMin, is Professor of Chaplaincy and Practical Theology at Columbia Biblical Seminary (Columbia International University) in Columbia, South Carolina. He retired after 36 years of service (30 active) in the U.S. Marine Corps (infantry officer) and the U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps, receiving a diagnosis of severe PTSD after his tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. Mike is a graduate of the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Bethel Theological Seminary, U.S. Naval War College, and King’s College, University of Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland.

John Lee is an educator who seeks to inspire students to achieve excellence in their studies and their lives. He has taught at the University of Delaware, St. Thomas Choir School, Drew University, Nyack College, St. Bernard’s School, and The Geneva School of Manhattan. He obtained his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in history from Yale University. His essays have appeared in The Banner, Mere Orthodoxy, Christianity Today, and a number of other publications. He lives in New York City and East Hampton with his wife and two children.

Darin D. Lenz is Associate Professor of History at Fresno Pacific University in California. His research focuses on the social history of Christianity in the early modern and modern eras. He completed post-doctoral study at the United States Military Academy, West Point, and has been a Visiting Fellow at New College, University of Edinburgh. His work has been published in a wide range of journals and edited volumes including Remembering Armageddon: Religion and the First World War, edited by Philip Jenkins, as well as the new Bloomsbury Religion in North America series.

Marc LiVecche, Ph.D. (University of Chicago), is a research fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and executive editor at Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy. He was McDonald Research Fellow at the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life in Christ Church College, Oxford University, in residence from 2018- 2020. His first book, The Good Kill: Just War & Moral Injury, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in early 2021.

Louis Markos holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities at Houston Baptist University and is a Professor of English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University’s Honors College. He teaches courses  on Ancient Greece and Rome, the Early Church and Middle Ages, British Romantic and Victorian Poetry and Prose, the Classics, C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, and Art and Film.

Dr. Markos holds a BA in English and History from Colgate University and an MA and PhD in English from the University of Michigan. He is the author of sixteen books: A Worldview Guide to the Iliad, A Worldview Guide to the Odyssey, A Worldview Guide to the Aeneid, From A to Z to Middle-Earth with J. R. R. Tolkien, The Dreaming Stone, From A to Z to Narnia with C. S. Lewis, C. S. Lewis: An Apologist for Education, Heaven & Hell: Visions of the Afterlife in the Western Poetic Tradition, In the Shadow of Troy, On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis, Literature: A Student’s Guide, Apologetics for the Twenty First Century, Restoring Beauty: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C. S. Lewis, Atheism on Trial: Refuting the Modern Arguments Against God, The Eye of the Beholder: How to See the World like a Romantic Poet, From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics, Pressing Forward: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age, Lewis Agonistes: How C. S. Lewis can Train us to Wrestle with the Modern and Postmodern World. All these books are available at his amazon.com author page: https://www.amazon.com/author/louismarkos

He has given well over 300 public lectures in more than two dozen states as well as Rome, Oxford, and British Columbia. Dr. Markos has also produced two lecture series available from the Teaching Company (thegreatcourses.com), The Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis; Plato to Postmodernism: Understanding the Essence of Literature and the Role of the Author, published over 150 articles and reviews in such journals as Christianity Today, Touchstone, Theology Today, Christian Research Journal, Mythlore, Christian Scholar’s Review, Saint Austin Review, American Arts Quarterly, and The City, and had his modern adaptation of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris, Euripides’ Helen, and Sophocles’ Electra performed off-Broadway in the Fall of 2011, Fall of 2012, and Spring of 2013, respectively. His adaptations of Medea and Oedipus are on the docket for future performances. He has also co-written a film about the life and conversion of C. S. Lewis.

He is committed to the concept of the Professor as Public Educator and believes that knowledge must not be walled up in the Academy but must be disseminated to all who have ears to hear.

Daniel Martinez, M.P.A., is a U.S. National Park Service Ranger and chief historian at the USS Arizona and World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument at Pearl Harbor. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the U.S. Naval War College. From 2002 to 2006, he was the creator, host, and historian in-residence for the Discovery Channel series, “Unsolved History.” He also worked on several Discovery Channel documentaries, including “Arizona: Death of a Battleship.”

Jeremy Mikeska serves as Executive Pastor of Spiritual Formation of Frisco Bible Church in Frisco, Texas. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University and has been on the staff of Frisco Bible Church since 2005. He is an avid musician and soccer and softball player and enthusiastic Texas Rangers fan.

John Strider Nation grew up in the cowboy country of the Red River Valley of southern Oklahoma, watching the cow ponies and windmills of the Old West turn into the pickup trucks and oil derricks of the New West. A natural nomad, Nation has traveled extensively, living for twenty years on a classic 40-foot wooden schooner that he built, and backpacking across Europe and North Africa.

He is the eldest son of award-winning poet, Winona Morris Nation, who almost forgotten now, in the 1950s won many national poetry awards, being published in The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and in 1959, winning the National Collegiate Poetry Contest. Nation holds a degree in anthropology and English from the University of Oklahoma, and is a licensed pilot. 

Gina Granados Palmer, Ph.D., is a faculty member at the U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, and an entrepreneur with a background in mechanical engineering and production technology. She is coauthor of Religion and War: Exploring the Issues. Her work focuses on leadership, ethics, technology, war, and the balance between diplomacy and defense. Palmer received a Ph.D. from Salve Regina University in Technology and Humanities, a Master of Liberal Arts degree in International Relations from Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Eric Patterson, Ph.D., serves as scholar-at-large and past dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University and a Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, where he previously served full-time. He has twice worked at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, served for over twenty years as an Air National Guard officer and commander, and was a White House Fellow. He is the author or editor of 15 books, including Just American Wars (Routledge, 2019), The Ashgate Research Companion on Military Ethics (with James Turner Johnson, 2016), Ending Wars Well (Yale University Press, 2012), Ethics Beyond Wars End (editor, Georgetown University Press, 2012), Politics in a Religious World (Continuum, 2011), Debating the War of Ideas (with John Gallagher, 2009), Christianity and Power Politics Today (editor, 2008), and Just War Thinking: Morality and Pragmatism in the Struggle Against Contemporary Threats (2007). He has also published numerous scholarly articles in journals such Survival, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Journal of Political Science, International Politics, Security Studies, and International Relations. Patterson holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Master’s in International Politics from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth.

Nayeli L. Riano is a freelance writer of politics, religion, and art. She is a current graduate student at Georgetown University pursuing a Ph.D. in political theory. Prior to her doctoral studies, Nayeli attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she completed her B.A. in English and French studies. She then studied at the University of St Andrews, where she completed an MLitt in Intellectual History. Apart from her academic research, Nayeli spends most of her time writing literary and cultural commentaries for various outlets. She was born in Bogota, Colombia, and grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Michael F. Shaughnessy, Ph.D. is a professor of educational studies at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York, two master’s degrees, and a doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has edited, co-edited and written approximately 30 books and more than 500 articles, research pieces, and book reviews.

Mike Studeman retired in 2023 after 35 years in the Navy, attaining the rank of a two-star admiral. He led thousands of intelligence professionals at sea and ashore. He commanded Global Communications Center, Cyber Intelligence Center, and the Office of Naval Intelligence. He was also Intelligence Director for the Indo-Pacific and South America regions. In 2005 he was presidentially appointed as a White House Fellow, the nation’s premier program for leadership and public service. He currently consults, speaks, and is a National Security Fellow for the MITRE Corporation. He and his college sweetheart, Lynne, have two sons and live in Virginia.

Steven P. Sullivan is a retired Distinguished Professor of the College of Biblical Studies-Houston, Texas. He earned a Th.M. and D.Min. at Dallas Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. at the University of Wales Trinity St. David, UK. He has done post-doctoral research at Tyndale House, Cambridge, England.

Michael J. Vlach, Ph.D. is a Professor of Theology at Sheperds Theological Seminary in Cary, North Carolina. He was an editor of “The Master’s Seminary Journal.”

Dr. Vlach earned the Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He specializes in the areas of Systematic Theology, Philosophy, and World Religions and is the author of five books. Additionally, Dr. Vlach has appeared on several national radio and television broadcasts including The History Channel.