Gregory Baus
Gregory Baus was baptized and catechized from infancy in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He was largely raised in Baltimore, Marlyand where he is a member of an OP congregation. Gregory developed a very early interest in theology, philosophy, and cultural activism. He also sporadically attended Covenant College (Lookout Mountain, Georgia) from 1992 through 1997, where he developed his interests in the thought of Herman Dooyeweerd and Meredith Kline. He eventually completed his bachelor's in philosophy at Redeemer University College (Hamilton, Ontario) in 2003. He is currently a master's candidate in the philosophy faculty of the Free University, Amsterdam. His thesis is a comparison of Herman Dooyeweerd's and Bernard Lonergan's views of self-knowledge. Gregory's main academic interest is metaphilosophy, but is greatly concerned for a Christian view of culture in general. His primary blog can be found here.
William Chellis
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.
Bill studied Political Science at the State University of New York at Oneonta. It was as a student at SUNY Oneonta, while studying Paul's Book of Romans and Augustine's City of God, that Bill was saved by faith through God's truly amazing grace. By the grace that comes through the public proclamation of God's Word, Bill became a citizen of the heavenly city and made public profession of faith in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America.
It was also as a student at SUNY Oneonta that Bill began a life long passion for the preservation of the permanent things. An admirer of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Richard Hooker, Edmund Burke, T.S. Eliot, and Russell Kirk, Bill raised his sword in defense of the ancient canon and the natural law.
Having received his B.S. in Political Science, Bill received his Juris Doctorate from Villanova University School of Law. During his time at Villanova, God graciously gave Bill the gift of a lovely and prudent wife, as he married his high school sweetheart, Katrina.
Having passed the New York Bar Exam, Bill and Katrina moved to Pittsburgh to begin the study of theology and preparation for the ministry of word and sacrament. Under the watchful care of the Atlantic Presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, Bill studied at Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Bill loves classical, confessional, covenant theology, and the work of the Protestant Scholastics, as well as all things ancient and medieval.The Chellis' enjoy reading great works, long walks, a full table (especially Lord's Day feasts), horses, dogs, and other humane accoutrements of life.
Bill and Katrina have a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, a son, William Augustine, and Great Dane, Knox.
Kevin L. Clauson
B.A. (International Relations), B.S. (Chemistry), M.A. (Political Science), Marshall University; J.D. (Law), West Virginia University. President, Christ College; President, The Patrick Henry Institute; Former Chair, Government Department, Liberty University; Professor of Government, Helms School of Government, Liberty University; Former Assistant Professor of Political Science, Grove City College. Married (since 1982); four children (ages 12-21, as of May 1, 2006).
Thomas Copeland
Thomas Copeland is an assistant professor of Political Science at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, PA. Previously he served as a national account manager and as Chief of Staff for the government services group of LexisNexis, the world's largest provider of online information. He was Director of Admissions at The Institute of World Politics, and has worked for Legi-Slate (part of the Washington Post company) and the Office of Naval Research, among others. He has taught classes at the University of Pittsburgh and Trinity College in Washington, DC. He recently completed his dissertation on intelligence failures and mass casualty terrorism. He has published articles on military justice, terrorism, and technology transfer, and edited a US Army War College book on the information revolution.
He is a member of College Hill Reformed Presbyterian Church, and he and his wife Ava and children Maggie and Ian live in Beaver Falls.
John Fielding
John Fielding holds the B.A. from Washington Bible College, the M.Div. from Reformed Episcopal Seminary, the M.A. from Temple University in linguistics, and the J.D. from Temple School of Law. He practices law in Berks County, PA and is a local political activist, holding several board positions and a leadership position in the Berks County Republican Party. He is President of the National Reform Association.
Richard C. Gamble
Richard C. Gamble is a native of Pittsburgh. He is a graduate of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and received his Ph.D. from Universitat Basel in Switzerland. He is an experienced seminary professor, teaching in the fields of church history and systematic theology, with years of service at Westminster Theological Seminary, Calvin Seminary, and Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, FL.
Professor Gamble is also an author and editor. He is the editor of a 14-volume anthology entitled Articles on Calvin and Calvinism, and was a contributing editor to Eerdmans' Calvin s Old Testament Commentaries. He is nearly finished with a massive two-volume critical edition of Calvin's Latin commentary on Genesis, and his book Calvin and the Church will soon be published. He also has pastoral experience in Philadelphia, PA, Grand Rapids, MI, and Oviedo, FL.
Professor Gamble is married; his wife's name is Janice. They have five daughters-Lindsey, Liesl, Whitney, Hilary, and Gwenyth.
David Guthrie
David Guthrie is the Academic Dean at Geneva, overseeing curricular issues of its traditional, non-traditional, and graduate programs; faculty development initiatives; and, the efforts of departmental leaders. During his first eight years at Geneva, Dave served as the director of the Master of Arts in Higher Education Program, and also taught occasionally in the sociology, humanities, and religion departments. Along with Dr. Don Opitz, he helped Geneva to secure a five-year, $2 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to support "The Call: Embracing Vocation at Geneva College" a program that explores theological understandings and applications of vocation.
Dave is the recipient of the Geneva College Excellence in Scholarship Award (2001-2002), served as the editor for Student Affairs Reconsidered--A Christian View of the Profession and its Contexts and as co-editor for Agendas for Church-Related Colleges and Universities, and enjoys writing about church-related and Christian higher education.
Dave and his wife, Cindy, have two boys, Sam and Andy, and a daughter, Molly.
Harold B. Harrington
Born in Michigan and educated in its public schools. Was further educated at Geneva College, Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary and New College, University of Edinburgh. Served in the U.S. Navy. Was ordained and installed as a Reformed Presbyterian pastor in 1954. Was pastor of four Reformed Presbyterian congregations. Taught in several collages and seminaries including twenty-two years as Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Ottawa Theological Hall. Presently semi-retired. Serves as an elder in the Crown and Covenant Congregation of the RPCNA.
Harold is married to Ena Cover. Four children have been born to this union.
Darryl Hart
D. G. Hart is the Director for Partnered Projects at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Previously he was dean of academic affairs and professor of church history at Westminster Theological Seminary in California where he remains an adjunct member of the faculty. 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.
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 the Atlanta 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 at since 1998, and since 2003 has served as pastor of Trinity Reformed Church in Moscow, Idaho.
Dr. Leithart and his wife, Noel, have ten children and one grandchild.
Caleb Stegall
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.
David M. VanDrunen
B.A., Calvin College; M.Div., Westminster Seminary California; Th.M., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; J.D., Northwestern University School of Law; Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago.
Dr. VanDrunen, a minister of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and a licensed attorney in the state of Illinois, began teaching at Westminster Seminary California in 2001. Prior to this, from 1999-2001, he served as a pastor of Grace Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Hanover Park, IL. Currently he serves on the OPC's Committee to study justification and the Committee on Christian Education. His present research interests include the doctrines of justification, natural law, and the two kingdoms.
He is the author of Law and Custom: The Thought of Thomas Aquinas and the Future of the Common Law and editor of The Pattern of Sound Doctrine: Systematic Theology at the Westminster Seminaries: Essays in Honor of Robert B. Strimple. His scholarly articles have appeared or will soon appear in the Journal of Law and Religion, the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Calvin Theological Journal, Journal of Church and State, The International Journal of Systematic Theology, The Journal of Markets and Morality, and The University of British Columbia Law Review.
Dr. VanDrunen and his wife, Katherine, who holds a Westminster Seminary California Master of Arts degree, live in Escondido with their son.