University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
March 24-29, 2008
Presenters
Chris Berg
Campus Minister—Every Nation Campus Ministries.
Chris graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2006 with a B.A. in Biology, Chemistry, and Behavioral Neuroscience. Since then, he has moved down to Chapel Hill where he has been researching and presenting on such topics as creation and evolution, Mormonism, the trinity, eternal judgement, postmodernism, the authenticity and accuracy of the bible, suffering, the gnostic gospels, new age movement, atheism, a historical and biblical understanding of Jesus, and religious tolerance. Chris currently serves as King's Park International Church's Apologetics Minister and as a Resident Apologist for Every Nation Campus Ministries. Chris has given over seventy-five lectures at such venues as KPIC, UNC, Duke and MIT.
Gregory Ganssle
Lecturer in Philosophy—Yale University.
Greg is an Associate Director of the Rivendell Institute at Yale and a part-time lecturer in the department of philosophy there.
Greg graduated from the University of Maryland in 1978. He earned a Masters of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Rhode Island (1990) and a PhD. in Philosophy (1995) from Syracuse University where his dissertation on God's relation to time won a Syracuse University Dissertation Award.
He has taught philosophy at Syracuse and is currently a part time lecturer in the philosophy department at Yale University. Greg is also an associate director at the Rivendell Institute. The Rivendell Institute combines ministry to Graduate Students and Faculty with Academic Research.
He has published over two dozen academic papers, chapters and reviews and has edited two books, Four Views of God and Time (Inter Varsity Press, 2001) and God and Time: Essays on the Divine Nature (co-edited for Oxford University Press, 2002). His third book, Thinking About God: First Steps on Philosophy was published by Inter Varsity Press in November, 2004.
Recent projects include a chapter in the book Faith Film and Philosophy (published in November) on the nature of human persons in the films of Charlie Kaufman, articles on Descartes and on Faith and Reason coming out in the Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization and an article called “Dawkins Best Argument: The Case Against God in the God Delusion.” To be published this year in the journal Philosophia Christi.
Greg has been married to Jeanie since 1985. They have three children: David, Nick, and Elizabeth.
Greg graduated from the University of Maryland in 1978. He earned a Masters of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Rhode Island (1990) and a PhD. in Philosophy (1995) from Syracuse University where his dissertation on God's relation to time won a Syracuse University Dissertation Award.
He has taught philosophy at Syracuse and is currently a part time lecturer in the philosophy department at Yale University. Greg is also an associate director at the Rivendell Institute. The Rivendell Institute combines ministry to Graduate Students and Faculty with Academic Research.
He has published over two dozen academic papers, chapters and reviews and has edited two books, Four Views of God and Time (Inter Varsity Press, 2001) and God and Time: Essays on the Divine Nature (co-edited for Oxford University Press, 2002). His third book, Thinking About God: First Steps on Philosophy was published by Inter Varsity Press in November, 2004.
Recent projects include a chapter in the book Faith Film and Philosophy (published in November) on the nature of human persons in the films of Charlie Kaufman, articles on Descartes and on Faith and Reason coming out in the Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization and an article called “Dawkins Best Argument: The Case Against God in the God Delusion.” To be published this year in the journal Philosophia Christi.
Greg has been married to Jeanie since 1985. They have three children: David, Nick, and Elizabeth.
J.D. Greear
Pastor—Summit Church, Durham, NC.
J.D. became the Lead Pastor at the Summit Church in January of 2002. Before coming to work at the Summit he had worked among Muslims in Southeast Asia. He entered the Ph.D. program at Southeastern Seminary in 1999, graduating with a doctorate in Systematic Theology in 2003. He is also a graduate of the Word of Life Bible Institute, and a Government and Math graduate of Campbell University. He hails from Winston-Salem. J.D. is married to Veronica and they have 3 children: Kharis, Alethia and Ryah.
Kenneth Jones
Pastor—Greater Union Baptist Church, Compton, CA.
Pastor Kenneth Jones is a native of Los Angeles, California. He attended high school in Gardena, CA and Pepperdine University Malibu.
He was ordained to the pastorate in 1983 and has served as Pastor of the Greater Union Baptist Church in Compton, California for the past eighteen years. He has co-hosted the White Horse Inn, a theology and apologetics radio broadcast, since 1995. He is a frequent conference speaker as well as a contributing writer for Modern Reformation and Table Talk magazines.
He established the Compton Academy for Protestant Studies and is on the Board of Directors of The Rafiki Foundation. Pastor Jones and his wife Lisa have been married for 28 years and are the parents of one son.
He was ordained to the pastorate in 1983 and has served as Pastor of the Greater Union Baptist Church in Compton, California for the past eighteen years. He has co-hosted the White Horse Inn, a theology and apologetics radio broadcast, since 1995. He is a frequent conference speaker as well as a contributing writer for Modern Reformation and Table Talk magazines.
He established the Compton Academy for Protestant Studies and is on the Board of Directors of The Rafiki Foundation. Pastor Jones and his wife Lisa have been married for 28 years and are the parents of one son.