Dr. Bradley J. Birzer

Bradley J. Birzer is Russell Amos Kirk Chair in History and Director of the American Studies at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan. Having earned his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame (1990) and his Ph.D. from Indiana University-Bloomington (1999), Birzer is author of Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson (2007) and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth (2003); co-author of The American West (2002); and co-editor of The American Democrat and Other Political Writings by James Fenimore Cooper (2000). Birzer has several additional books in the works: an intellectual biography of American founding father, Charles Carroll of Carrollton (ISI Books, fall 2009); a narrative history of the seven months leading up to the first shots fired in the American Civil War, The Shattering of the Republic: Abraham Lincoln and Secession Winter; and an analysis of Ronald Reagan’s 1981 speech at Notre Dame and its role in bringing down the Berlin Wall. Birzer is married to Dedra Shawn McDonald Birzer, also an academic historian.  They have six children.
His professional website: http://web.me.com/bradleybirzer/AvalonCathedrals/Welcome.html

Rev. Charles Brown

William Chellis, Esq.

Bill grew up in the small town of Jeffersonville in the lower Catskill Mountains of New York. There he developed a love for the simplicity of agrarian virtues and the beauty of God’s creation.  He is an Attorney and an ordained Minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. The husband of Katrina, and father of Elizabeth Ann and William Augustine.   

Bill also blogs at the Upstate Conservative 

Darryl Hart

D. G. Hart has served the Director for Partnered Projects at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, dean of academic affairs and professor of church history at Westminster Theological Seminary in California.  Earlier still he directed the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals and taught American history at Wheaton College.

Dr. Hart is the author of many books, such as John Williamson Nevin: High Church Calvinist; A Student’s Guide to Religious Studies; Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Era of Billy Graham; Recovering Mother Kirk: The Case for Liturgy in the Reformed Tradition; The Lost Soul of American Protestantism; That Old-Time Religion in Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century; With Reverence and Awe: Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship (co-author); The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies and American Higher Education; Fighting the Good Fight: A Brief History of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (co-author); and Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America.

He is an elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and lives in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia with his wife, Ann.

Gerald J. Russello, Esq.

Gerald J. Russello is editor of the University Bookman and a Fellow of the Chesterton Institute at Seton Hall University.  He is the author of The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk and editor ofChristianity and European Culture:  Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson.  He lives in Brooklyn, the home of his ancestors, with his wife (also a native New Yorker), and their three children.

Rev. Dr. Peter Leithart

Dr. Leithart received an A.B. in English and History from Hillsdale College in 1981, and a Master of Arts in Religion and a Master of Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia in 1986 and 1987, respectively. In 1998 he received his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in England. He has served as editor and writer for American Vision in Atlanta, Georgia (1987-1989), and as a pastor of Reformed Heritage Presbyterian Church (now Trinity Presbyterian Church), Birmingham, Alabama from 1989-1995.

He has authored Deep Comedy (forthcoming), a commentary on 2 Peter (forthcoming), Against Christianity, A Son to Me, A House for My Name, and other books. His articles have appeared in theAtlanta Journal-Constitution, Birmingham News, Dallas Morning News, First Things, Modern Theology, The International Journal of Systematic Theology, the Tyndale Bulletin, Pro Ecclesia, Journal of Biblical Literature, Westminster Theological Journal, and other publications. He is currently a contributing editor to Touchstone magazine.

He has taught Theology and Literature at New Saint Andrews College since 1998, and since 2003 has served as pastor of Trinity Reformed Church in Moscow.

Dr. Leithart and his wife, Noel, have ten children.

Andrew Matthews

Andrew is a parishioner at St. Luke’s, a classical Anglican Church (REC) in the southern California area.  Andrew writes in defense of traditionalist conservatism, Christendom, and sacral monarchy at his blog Unpopular Opinions.

Caleb Stegall, Esq.

Caleb Stegall is a country lawyer, writer, and editor of The New Pantagruel. He lives on a small farm in Kansas with his wife and their five sons.

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