William Lane Craig is a research professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology and professor of philosophy at Houston Baptist University. He and his wife Jan have two adult children. At the age of sixteen, while in high school, he first heard the message of the Christian gospel and dedicated his life to Christ. Dr. Craig pursued his undergraduate studies at Wheaton College (BA 1971) and his graduate studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (MA 1974; MA 1975), University of Birmingham (England) (Ph.D. 1977 ) and at the University of Munich. (Germany) (D.Theol. 1984). From 1980 to 1986 he taught philosophy of religion at Trinity, during which time he and Jan started their family. In 1987 they moved to Brussels, Belgium, where Dr. Craig continued his research at the University of Leuven until taking up his position at Talbot in 1994. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Evaluating the New Testament evidence for the historicity of Jesus' resurrection; Divine foreknowledge and human freedom; Theism, atheism and cosmology of the Big Bang; and God, Time and Eternity, as well as more than a hundred articles in professional philosophy and theology journals, including The Journal of Philosophy, New Testament Studies, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy, and British Journal of Philosophy of Science. In 2016, Dr. Craig was named by The Best Schools as one of the fifty most influential living philosophers.
Bishop Robert Barron is an acclaimed author, speaker, and theologian. He is also the founder of the global media ministry Word on Fire, which reaches millions of people using new media tools to attract or bring people back to the Catholic faith. Cardinal Francis George described him as “one of the best messengers of the Church.” Bishop Barron received a master's degree in philosophy from the Catholic University of America in 1982 and a doctorate in sacred theology from the Catholic Institute of Paris in 1992. ordained priest in 1986 in the Archdiocese of Chicago, then appointed to the theology faculty at Mundelein Seminary in 1992. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame and the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas. was twice scholar in residence at the Pontifical North American College of the Vatican. He served as rector/president of Mundelein Seminary at the University of Sainte-Marie du Lac from 2012 to 2015. On July 21, 2015, Pope Francis appointed Bishop Barron to this position. to be an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He was ordained a bishop on September 8, 2015.
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