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Dr. Peter Kreeft is professor of philosophy at Boston College and one of the most respected and prolific Christian authors of our time, with more than a hundred books spanning spirituality, theology, and philosophy. A convert to Catholicism shaped by his study of Church history and the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, he earned his doctorate at Fordham University and has taught philosophy since 1965.

Known for making the deepest truths accessible with wit and clarity — he is often called a modern C.S. Lewis — Kreeft’s bestsellers include Heaven: The Heart’s Deepest Longing, A Summa of the Summa, and the Handbook of Christian Apologetics. For Ascension, he contributed to Disorientation: How to Go to College Without Losing Your Mind, helping students recognize and answer the intellectual currents they will encounter at university.

Fr. Dwight Longenecker is a Catholic priest, author, speaker, and pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church in Greenville, South Carolina. A former Anglican priest, he and his family were received into the Catholic Church in 1995, and he was ordained a Catholic priest in 2006 through the Pastoral Provision for married former Anglican clergy.

Fr. Dwight is the author of more than twenty books on the Catholic faith and a well-known Catholic blogger. He and his wife, Alison, have four children and live in Greenville, South Carolina.

Elizabeth Scalia is a Benedictine Oblate, author, and editor whose writing explores the Catholic faith with honesty, wit, and spiritual insight. She is the author of several books, including the award-winning Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life and Little Sins Mean a Lot.

Elizabeth has served in editorial roles with Our Sunday Visitor, Word on Fire, Aleteia, and Patheos, and is widely known to readers as "The Anchoress." She and her husband live on Long Island.

Robert Spencer is an author and researcher who has written extensively on religion, history, and current affairs. He is the author of more than two dozen books, including two New York Times bestsellers, and has lectured internationally on his areas of expertise. A Melkite Greek Catholic, Spencer has also written on Catholic theology, apologetics, and inter-religious dialogue.

Spencer is the co-author of Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics and a contributor to Disorientation: How to Go to College Without Losing Your Mind, a collection of essays that equips Catholic students to thoughtfully engage the intellectual and cultural challenges they may encounter on college campuses.

Donna Steichen is a longtime investigative journalist and Catholic author whose work has appeared in numerous Catholic publications. Through her writing and research, she explores issues affecting the life of the Church and encourages readers to deepen their understanding of the Catholic faith.

Donna and her husband, LeRoy, are the parents of four children.

After a profound conversion to Christ at age 20, Jimmy Akin began an intensive study of Scripture with the intention of becoming a Protestant pastor or seminary professor. As he learned more about the Bible, he became convinced of the truth of the Catholic faith and entered the Catholic Church in 1992.

Jimmy Akin serves as Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, where he is also a member of the Catholic Answers Speakers Bureau, a frequent guest on Catholic Answers Live, and a contributor to Catholic Answers Magazine. Jimmy is also a contributor to the book Disorientation, bringing his knowledge of Scripture and apologetics to college students in need of navigating a new time in their lives.

Mark Shea is a popular Catholic writer, apologist, and speaker. A convert to the Catholic faith from Evangelicalism in 1987, he has spent decades explaining and defending Catholic teaching with wit, erudition, and a storyteller’s touch, through books such as By What Authority? and the Mary, Mother of the Son trilogy, along with years of columns, blogs, and radio appearances.


For Ascension, he co-authored A Catholic Guide to Narnia: Questions and Activities for the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe .He also contributed to Disorientation: How to Go to College Without Losing Your Mind.

Eric Metaxas is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and radio host whose books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He is best known for his acclaimed biographies, including Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy — named a Book of the Year by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association — and Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, the companion book to the 2006 film. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the New Yorker.

Raised in New York in a Greek Orthodox family, Metaxas has spent his career exploring faith, courage, and conviction in public life, and he hosts a nationally syndicated radio program. For Ascension, he contributed to Disorientation: How to Go to College Without Losing Your Mind, a collection of essays by leading Christian thinkers preparing students to engage the ideologies they will meet on campus.

Eric Brende is a writer and speaker who is best known for questioning what technology gives us — and what it quietly takes away. After studies at Yale and MIT, he and his wife, Mary, spent eighteen months living in a strict Anabaptist farming community without electricity or motors, an experiment he chronicled in his acclaimed book Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology. He has continued to live out those convictions in St. Louis, Missouri, where he has worked as a rickshaw driver and artisan soap maker while writing and speaking on technology and the good life.

A Catholic voice in the conversation about human flourishing in a machine age, Brende contributed to Ascension’s Disorientation: How to Go to College Without Losing Your Mind, applying his distinctive perspective to the ideologies students encounter on campus.

Rev. George Rutler, S.T.D., is a Catholic priest, author, speaker, and longtime pastor known for his preaching, writing, and love of sacred art and culture. A former Episcopal priest, he entered the Catholic Church in 1979 and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1981.

Fr. Rutler has served parishes in New York City for more than four decades and has hosted a weekly television program on EWTN since 1988. He is the author of more than twenty books on theology, history, the saints, and the Catholic faith.