Saturday Speakers

Dallas Willard is a Professor in the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He has taught at USC since 1965, where he was Director of the School of Philosophy from 1982-1985. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin (Madison, 1960-1965), and has held visiting appointments at UCLA (1969) and the University of Colorado (1984). He holds the Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. His philosophical publications are mainly in the areas of epistemology, the philosophy of mind and of logic, and on the philosophy of Edmund Husserl. He also lectures and publishes in religion: Renovation of the Heart was published in April 2002, The Divine Conspiracy was released in 1998 and selected Christianity Today's "Book of the Year" for 1999, The Spirit of the Disciplines appeared in 1988, and Hearing God (1999) first appeared as In Search of Guidance in 1984 (2nd edition 1993).

Peter Kreeft taught at Villanova University from 1962-1965 and has been at Boston College since 1965. He holds the Ph.D. from Fordham University. He is the author of numerous books (about 43 with 12 more in progress in 2002), including: C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium, Fundamentals of the Faith, The Best Things in Life, Back to Virtue, and The Unaborted Socrates.

Frederica Mathewes-Green is a regular commentator on NPR's "All Things Considered" and on Odyssey Television Network's "News Odyssey." She is a columnist for Christianity Today, publishes regularly in First Things, and serves as a contributing editor for Books & Culture, Regeneration, Touchstone, Focus on the Family-Citizen, Divine Ascent, Eutopia and other publications. She is the author of several books, most recently The Illumined Heart: The Ancient Christian Path of Transformation. She also serves on a number of advisory boards for institutions such as Americans United for Life. In addition to her books and other writings, Frederica speaks at colleges, conventions, and churches across the country. She earned her M.A. in theological studies from Virginia Episcopal Seminary and her B.A. in English from the University of South Carolina.