Location: Finnegan Fieldhouse
Open to ABS and DFC participants—doors open at 1:45 pm.
“Imaginative Apologetics: What It Is and Why We Need It” –Holly Ordway
“Dialogue on the Doorstep: How to Share Your Faith” –Al Kresta
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Dr. Holly Ordway is a professor of English and serves on the faculty in the MA in apologetics at Houston Baptist University. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is the author of Apologetics and the Christian Imagination: An Integrated Approach to Defending the Faith (Emmaus Road, 2017) and Not God’s Type: An Atheist Academic Lays Down Her Arms (Ignatius, 2014). Dr. Ordway is also a published poet and a subject editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies. Her academic work focuses on imaginative and literary apologetics and on the writings of the Inklings, especially C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Her current book project is Tolkien’s Modern Sources: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages (Kent State University Press, 2019).
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Al Kresta is a broadcaster, journalist, president and CEO of Ave Maria Communication, and host of the nationally syndicated Catholic talk show Kresta in the Afternoon, heard on over 400 stations and Sirius Satellite Radio weekdays from 4-6 p.m. Eastern Time. Al’s life and spiritual journey took on a new dimension in February 2003 when he lost his left leg to a virulent infection often referred to as the “flesh-eating bacteria.” His extended recovery and eventual return to broadcasting have given him new insights into the realities of suffering and hope. Al is the author of the best-selling book Dangers to the Faith: Recognizing Catholicism’s 21st Century Opponents as well as Why Do Catholics Genuflect?, Why Are Catholics So Concerned about Sin?, and co-author with Nick Thomm of Moments of Grace: Inspiring Stories From Well-Known Catholics.
Amy McEntee
Kimberly Kay Cox
Mark Mogilka
Armando Cervantes
Anna Betancourt
Andrea Chavez-Kopp