Douglas Beaumont

Doug has a PhD in theology from North-West University and a MA in apologetics from Southern Evangelical Seminary where he served as assistant to Norman Geisler and taught Bible and Religion for ten years before converting to Catholicism. Doug is the author of The Message Behind the Movie (Moody, 2009), and has contributed to The Best Catholic Writing (Loyola, 2006), The Apologetics Study Bible for Students (B&H, 2010), Got Questions? (Pleasant Word, 2009), and several articles in The Christian Apologetics Journal. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife and four children.

Francis Beckwith

Francis is a former SES professor and is now professor of philosophy and Church-State Studies at Baylor University, where he also serves as associate director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy and codirector (with Trent Dougherty) of the Program in Philosophical Studies of Religion. He holds five earned degrees, including an MA and a PhD in philosophy from Fordham University and a master of juridical studies (in law) from the Washington University School of Law, Saint Louis. He is the author or editor of more than fifteen books, including Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case against Abortion Choice (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic (Brazos Press, 2009). Having published more than a hundred academic articles, book chapters, critical reviews, and encyclopedia entries in a variety of publications, he has held visiting faculty appointments at Princeton University, where he served as a 2002—2003 Madison Research Fellow in the Department of Politics, and at the University of Notre Dame, where he was the 2008—2009 Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow in the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. He resigned his post as the fifty-eighth president of the Evangelical Theological Society in the middle of his tenure in May 2007, a week after returning to the Catholic Church of his youth. He and his wife, Frankie, live in Woodway, Texas.

Joshua Betancourt

Joshua received his bachelor of biblical studies from Calvary Chapel Bible College. He also holds an MA in apologetics from Southern Evangelical Seminary. He is the coauthor (with Norman Geisler) of Is Rome the True Church? (Crossway, 2008). Before his conversion to the Catholic faith, Joshua was an ordained Anglican deacon and served as a workplace chaplain at various businesses within Southern California. He has also worked for apostolates such as Saint Joseph Communications and Lighthouse Catholic Media. Joshua now ministers as a lay Catholic hospital chaplain. He and his wife, Carolina, enjoy serving as catechists at the parish level. They are the parents of three children.

Jeremiah Cowart

Jeremiah has an MA in religion from Southern Evangelical Seminary and a BA in philosophy from the University of Georgia. He was first enamored by the virtue ethics of Aristotle while at UGA and was able to explore the subject further via Thomas Aquinas at SES. His lay interests lie in the intersections of various fields: ethics and biology, aesthetics and theology, science and religion. He is now completely outside of academia, working as a federal agent for the Department of Homeland Security. He resides in Georgia with his five children.

Brandon Dahm

Brandon grew up in Pella, Iowa, and received his BA in philosophy from Iowa State University, where he met his wife, Andrea. He then pursued an MA in philosophy at Southern Evangelical Seminary. Taking a year off from SES, he was a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge University, where he studied Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae. He is pursuing a PhD at Baylor University. He has published articles in the American Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Analytic Theology, and Faith and Philosophy. His work is primarily on Thomas Aquinas, although he also studies and writes on John Duns Scotus and John Henry Newman.

Travis Johnson

Travis grew up in Bentonville, Arkansas, where he attended and was heavily involved in a large Evangelical Bible church. Prior to and during his conversion process, he worked at an Evangelical seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina. He and his wife and two daughters reside in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he teaches English, language arts, and religion at Saint Gertrude School. He holds a BA in philosophy and English from the University of Mississippi, an MDiv from Southern Evangelical Seminary, and an MA in education from Appalachian State University.

Michael Mason

Michael has a BS in middle childhood education from Ohio University and an MA in philosophy from Southern Evangelical Seminary and is working toward an MA in theology from the Athenaeum of Ohio. Prior to being received into the Catholic Church, he taught theology at an Evangelical high school in Charlotte, North Carolina, for six years. He resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, with his wife and children, is a parishioner at Saint Gertrude Church, and teaches language arts and religion at Saint Gertrude School.

Brian Mathews

Brian has an MA in apologetics and an MA in biblical studies from Southern Evangelical Seminary, where he was a teaching assistant for one year during his graduate studies. After teaching numerous apologetics classes at various Evangelical churches and being ordained a Baptist minister, he began to discover the truth of the Catholic faith. Brian, his wife, Diona, and their four children entered into full communion with the Catholic Church on December 29, 2012. Since then, the Mathews Family has been blessed with another son, Dominic William. Brian teaches Sacraments and Liturgy, moral theology, and apologetics at Charlotte Catholic High School. He also sings with the Carolina Catholic Chorale, a group formed to continue the rich Catholic tradition of sacred music at Mass.

Andrew Preslar

Andrew has a BA in Bible and theology from Appalachian Bible College and an MA in apologetics from Southern Evangelical Seminary. He was studying for Anglican orders before being received into full communion with the Catholic Church (Byzantine Rite) on February 3, 2008. He is a founding member of Called to Communion: Reformation Meets Rome (www.CalledtoCommunion.com), a website dedicated to promoting reconciliation and reunion between Catholics and Protestants. Andrew lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Jonathan Sonantis

Jonathan obtained an MA in philosophy from Southern Evangelical Seminary. He is working on a PhD in philosophy, concentrating on epistemology. He enjoys long walks on the beach and mildly clever Kierkegaardian pen names.