Speakers
 Dr Ravi Zacharias
Ravi Zacharias is President of RZIM. He was born in India in 1946 and emigrated to Canada with his family twenty years later. He received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois, and has been honoured by the conferring of a Doctor of Divinity degree from both Houghton College and Tyndale College and Seminary, Toronto, and a Doctor of Laws degree from Ashbury College, Kentucky.
He is also Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University. Dr Zacharias has spoken in over fifty countries and in numerous universities, such as Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford. He addressed the writers of the peace accord in South Africa, the President cabinet and parliament in Peru, and military officers at the Lenin Military Academy and the Centre for Geopolitical Strategy in Moscow. He has given the main address at the National Day of Prayer in Washington, D.C., and has also spoken at the Annual Prayer Breakfast at the United Nations in New York.
Dr Zacharias has written many books, including the Gold Medallion winner, Can Man Live Without God. His weekly radio program, Let My People Think, is broadcast over 1500 stations worldwide.
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 Dr Peter Williams
Peter Williams is the Warden (principal) of Tyndale House, Cambridge (an internationally-renowned research centre for Biblical Studies).
He was educated at Cambridge University, where he received his MA, MPhil and PhD, in the study of ancient languages related to the Bible. After his PhD, he was on staff in the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University (1997–1998), and thereafter taught Hebrew and Old Testament at Cambridge University as Affiliated Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic and as Research Fellow in Old Testament at Tyndale House, Cambridge (1998–2003).
From 2003 to 2007 he was on the faculty of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, where he became a Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Deputy Head of the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy. In July 2007, he became the youngest Warden in the history of Tyndale House.
He also retains his position as an honorary Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies at the University of Aberdeen and is a member of the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. Every summer Peter also leads an evangelistic outreach team in Belgium.
He is married to Kathryn and has two children.
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Revd Dr David Wenham
David Wenham is Vice Principal of Trinity College, Bristol, where he teaches New Testament, and is also chairman of the New Testament Group of the Tyndale Fellowship.
He studied theology in Cambridge University, before doing his doctorate in New Testament at Manchester University under Professor F. F. Bruce. He then taught in central India before moving to Oxford to teach New Testament at Wycliffe Hall and in the university for 24 years. He served as Dean and Vice-Principal of the Hall for several years, as well as Assistant Priest in some rural parishes near Oxford.
His research interests include the origins and historicity of the gospel, the relationship of Paul to Jesus and he is currently working on the Sermon on the Mount.
His publications include Paul: Follower of Jesus or Founder of Christianity?, The Parables of Jesus, and Paul and Jesus the True Story.
He is married to Clare, and they have two sons.
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Revd Dr Tom Tarrants Tom Tarrants is President of the C.S. Lewis Institute, based in Washington, D.C. He was previously co-pastor of Christ Our Shepherd Church in Washington, D.C. and earlier served as a university chaplain.
Tom directs the C.S. Lewis Institute Fellows Program and lectures in practical theology, with a special focus on biblical discipleship and spiritual formation/mentoring.
He did his doctoral studies in Christian spirituality at Fuller Theological Seminary.
Prior to 1970, Tom was deeply involved in terrorist activities, for which he spent eight years in prison. While reading the Gospels in prison, he experienced a life-changing conversion to Jesus Christ.
He is the author of The Conversion of a Klansman and is co-author, with Dr. John Perkins, of He’s My Brother.
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Michael Ramsden
Michael Ramsden has been European Director of the Zacharias Trust since its foundation in 1997. He is also joint Director of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and Lecturer in Christian Apologetics at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.
Michael was brought up in the Middle East and later moved to England where he worked for the Lord Chancellor’s department investing funds. While doing research at Sheffield University, he taught Moral Philosophy and lectured for the International Seminar on Jurisprudence and Human Rights in Strasbourg. Michael speaks to a wide variety of audiences worldwide and is involved in a number of initiatives to equip and train emerging leaders and evangelists throughout Europe.
He has contributed to the books Preach the Word! and Beyond Opinion. He is married to Anne and they live in Oxford with their three children.
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 Revd Frog Orr-Ewing Frog (Francis) Orr-Ewing was appointed Vicar of All Saints Church, Peckham (inner city London) in 2002. At that time he was the youngest incumbent in the Church of England.
Since then the congregation has experienced rapid growth through conversion amongst urban youth, children and adults. The church now impacts hundreds of young people every week in Peckham through small groups, mentoring, clubs and schools work.
Frog led an outreach mission called God Loves Peckham in the summer of 2006, where he and his team had the privilege of seeing over 100 people come to know Christ. He became a Christian himself as a teenager, and went on to study theology. He then worked in London before getting ordained and spent three years in Oxford as curate at St Aldate’s Church.
Frog has an MTh from Oxford, is co-author of Holy Warriors: A Fresh Look at the Face of Extreme Islam and Deep Church, and is currently working on a London University doctorate. He is married to Amy and they have twin boys, Zachary and Elijah.
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Amy Orr-Ewing Amy Orr-Ewing is Training Director of the Zacharias Trust and Director of Programmes for the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. She gained a first class degree in Theology at Christ Church, Oxford University, before receiving a Masters degree in Theology at King’s College, London.
Her book, Why Trust the Bible? was short-listed for the 2006 UK Christian Book Awards, and But Is It Real? was released in the summer of 2008. Amy has also co-authored both Holy Warriors: A Fresh Look at the Face of Extreme Islam and Deep Church and has also contributed to the books God and the Generations, Worth Knowing: Wisdom for Women and Beyond Opinion.
Amy speaks and lectures on Christian apologetics at many different locations worldwide. She is married to Frog, who is a vicar in the Church of England, and they live in London with their twin boys.
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 Arun Andrews
Arun Andrews is the Minister-at-large with RZIM Life Focus Society, India. Arun graduated in Economics from the Madras Christian College, before training for Christian Ministry at the Union Biblical Seminary, Pune from where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Divinity.
He has a wealth of ministry experience including 17 years in the Methodist Church in Bangalore (becoming “Conference Evangelist” for South India), 8 years as assistant pastor at the Richmond Town Methodist Church and 9 years as pastor at the Koramangala Methodist Church. Arun feels called to “preach from a pastoral heart” and has spoken at Schools, Colleges, corporate offices and Churches in many locations worldwide.
He has had the privilege of speaking at the Bible Society’s Millennium Celebrations in New Delhi (2000), the Keswick Convention held in Calcutta (2001 and 2004) and at the 17th Biennial Convention of the Presbyterian Youth Fellowship in Chirapunjee (2007).
He lives in Bangalore with his wife Miriam and their two children.
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 Professor John Lennox
John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University and fellow in the Philosophy of Science at Green College, Oxford, and Joint Director of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics (OCCA).
He studied at Cambridge, from which he holds the degrees of MA and PhD, and was subsequently Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of Wales, where he was awarded a DSc degree. He also holds an MA in Bioethics. He is interested in the interface of Science, Philosophy and Theology and has lectured and written many articles and several books on both mathematics and Christian apologetics.
John has debated a number of the world’s leading atheists including Christopher Hitchens at the Edinburgh festival (2008), and Richard Dawkins who he debated for the second time in Oxford’s Natural History Museum, the same venue that hosted the famous Huxley vs Wilberforce debate of 1860. His books include God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? and Christianity: Opium or Truth? (co-authored with David Gooding).
John and his wife Sally live near Oxford.
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 Revd Canon Dr Michael Green
Michael Green is the chaplain to the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and is one of the world’s leading evangelists. He was for many years a Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall where he taught Evangelism, Apologetics and New Testament Studies and also worked in setting up and teaching the Certificate in Christian Apologetics.
Most recently, he has been helping to grow a start-up Anglican Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is also Director of the Good News Initiative of the Anglican Communion Network in the USA. His previous experiences include being Principal of St John’s College, Nottingham; Rector of St Aldate’s Church, Oxford; Professor of Evangelism at Regent College, Vancouver; and Advisor to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York on Evangelism.
He has written a vast number of books and those on apologetics include The Books the Church Suppressed, a repudiation of the Coptic Gospels on which the Da Vinci Code relied, But Don’t All Religions Lead to God and I’d Like to Believe, But…
Michael and his wife Rosemary are based in Oxford, England.
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 Graham Leo
Graham Leo is Headmaster of Emmanuel College, Gold Coast, Australia (a multi-denominational Christian school, catering for primary and secondary students from 5 years of age to 18 years). Graham has been a Principal of Christian schools for over twenty years, serving for nearly 14 years in his current school. Graham’s areas of interest are in language, literature and theology.
He holds Arts and Education degrees from the University of Queensland, and a Masters degree in Educational Administration. Graham was a founding member of the National Council of Christian Schools Australia.
He is a popular writer and speaker, and has published two books, including one that provides guidance for Christian schools towards higher standards in Christian governance and practice. It is currently being used by a number of schools in Australia as a discussion starter amongst staff and Boards.
He is married to Mieke, who is also a teacher and they have three children, two of whom are teachers in Christian schools. |
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