Faith & Reason Archives

Faculty Lecturer:  Dr. Mark T. Mitchell

Dr. Mark Mitchell teaches upper-level political theory courses at Patrick Henry College. His research interests include modern and contemporary political theory, conservative political thought, the political implications of science, and political themes in literature.

Dr. Mitchell has published on such figures as Eric Voegelin, Michael Polanyi, and Flannery O’Connor, and on themes including democracy, community, and tradition. His first book, Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing, was published in 2006 by ISI Books. 

Guest Lecturer:  Dr. Nancy Pearcey

Nancy Pearcey is author of the bestselling Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity, winner of the 2005 ECPA Gold Medallion Award for best book on Christianity and Society.  Her newest book will appear in September 2010 under the title Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals & Meaning. 
 
Pearcey is currently the Scholar of Worldview Studies at Philadelphia Biblical University, and editor at large of the Pearcey Report (www.pearceyreport.com).  Formerly she was the Francis A. Schaeffer Scholar at the World Journalism Institute and the founding editor of "BreakPoint," a daily radio program.  She has authored or contributed to several works, including How Now Shall We Live? with Chuck Colson and Harold Fickett, and The Soul of Science.  She and her husband are homeschooling the second of their two sons