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Nancy Pearcey    

Bestselling Evangelical Author & Professor and Scholar in Residence at Houston Christian University

Nancy Pearcey is the bestselling author of seven books, including two ECPA Gold Medallion Winners: Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity and How Now Shall We Live? (co-authored by Chuck Colson and Harold Fickett). Additional books include The Soul of Science, Finding Truth, Saving Leonardo, Love Thy Body, and most recently The Toxic War on Masculinity. Her books have been translated into 19 languages, and she has also contributed chapters to 15 books.

A former agnostic, Pearcey was hailed in The Economist as “America’s pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual.” She has published hundreds of articles in outlets such as The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Fox News, The Daily Caller, The American Enterprise, American Thinker, Human Life Review, First Things, Christianity Today, the Regent University Law Review, CNS News, Human Events, and The Federalist.

Pearcey has been an invited speaker on university campuses such as Princeton, Dartmouth, Stanford, the University of Southern California, UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Georgia. She has spoken to staffers in Congress and the White House; to scientists at Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories; to actors and screenwriters in Hollywood; and to think tanks and public policy groups such as the Council for National Policy, the Family Research Council, Faith & Law, Concerned Women for America, Eagle Forum, and the Heritage Foundation.

As the founding editor of BreakPoint radio for nine years, Pearcey wrote 1000+ radio commentaries and edited thousands more for broadcast. She was a commentator on Public Square Radio and has made more than 400 media appearances, including NPR, C-​SPAN, Fox & Friends, the Dennis Miller Show, the Dennis Prager Show, the Bill Bennett Show, Hot Air TV, The Mike Huckabee Show, and Focus on the Family.

Pearcey studied under Francis Schaeffer at L’Abri in the early 1970s, then earned a Master’s degree from Covenant Seminary and completed additional graduate work in the history of philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. She has taught at Biola (Visiting Scholar at the Torrey Honors Institute), World Journalism Institute (the Francis A. Schaeffer Scholar), and Cairn University (Professor and Scholar of Worldview Studies).

Currently, Pearcey is a professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University, where she holds the Elizabeth and John Gibson Endowed Chair in Apologetics. She is also a fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. She and her husband have two adult sons who were homeschooled.

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