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William Lane Craig is a Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California.  He earned a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Birmingham, England, before taking a doctorate in theology from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, where he was for two years a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung.  Prior to his appointment at Talbot he spent seven years at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Katholike Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.  He has authored or edited over thirty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus; Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom; Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology; and God, Time, and Eternity, as well as over a hundred articles in professional journals of philosophy and theology, including The Journal of Philosophy, New Testament Studies, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy, and British Journal for Philosophy of Science. His website is www.reasonablefaith.org.

William Edgar is the former leader of the European Artists Network. He studied at Harvard University (Honors BA in Music), Westminster Theological Seminary (MDiv), and the University of Geneva (DTh). He has taught at the Brunswick School in Greenwich, CT, and at the  Faculté Jean Calvin in Aix-en-Provence, France, where he continues as Professeur Associé. He is currently Professor of Apologetics, and Coordinator of the Apologetics Department at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, where he has been since 1989. His books include Taking Note of Music (London: SPCK, 1986), Reasons of the Heart (Baker/Hourglass, 1996; P & R, 2003), La carte protestante (Labor et Fides, 1997), The Face of Truth: Lifting the Veil (P & R, 2001), Les dix commandements (Excelsis, 2007), Truth in All Its Glory: Commending the Reformed Faith (P & R, 2004), and Christian Apologetics Past and Present (2009). He speaks and writes on such subjects as cultural apologetics, the music of Brahms, the French Huguenots, and African-American aesthetics. He plays regularly with the jazz band Renewal. The Edgars have two children and three grand-children.

Os Guinness is an author and social critic. He was educated in England, receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of London and a DPhil from Oriel College, Oxford. He was a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 1986-1989 he was the Executive Director of the Williamsburg Charter Foundation, one of the drafters of the Williamsburg Charter. He is the founder and was the Senior Fellow of the Trinity Forum and most recently was Senior Fellow of the East West Institute in New York. Some of his influential books include The Dust of Death; In Two Minds; The Gravedigger File; The American Hour; Dining with the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts with Modernity; Fit Bodies, Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don't Think; The Call; and Time for Truth: Living Free in a World of Lies.

Greg Koukl is the founder and President of Stand to Reason, an organisation that trains Christians to think more clearly about their faith and to make an even-handed, incisive, yet gracious defense for classical Christianity and classical Christian values in the public square. He received his Masters in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at Talbot School of Theology, graduating with high honors, and his Masters in Christian Apologetics from Simon Greenleaf University. He is an adjunct professor in Christian apologetics at Biola University. He is the author of Tactics—A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions, Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air with Francis J. Beckwith, and Precious Unborn Human Persons. He has hosted his own radio talk show for over 20 years advocating clear-thinking Christianity and defending the Christian worldview.

Bruce A. Little has a Masters degrees in Apologetics and Religion and a PhD in Philosophy of Religion. Presently, he is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he has been on faculty since 2001. For over a decade, he has travelled widely in Europe and Asia, lecturing in universities, teaching in a variety of schools, and presenting papers at conferences. He has published in various professional journals and has written or edited several books: A Creation-Order Theodicy: God and Gratuitous Evil; God, Why This Evil?; Francis Schaeffer: A Mind and Heart for God (ed); and Engaging Culture, Defending the Faith (ed).

R. Scott Smith is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Christian Apologetics for the MA Program in Christian Apologetics at Biola University, USA. He earned his PhD is in Religion and Social Ethics from the University of Southern California, where he was mentored by Dr Dallas Willard. He completed his MA in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at the Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, under Dr JP Moreland and others. Scott is interested in addressing and refuting the “fact-value split,” i.e., that science uniquely gives us knowledge of reality, whereas ethics and religion are personal or social constructs. He has studied and written about many postmodern (including postmodern Christian) theologians and philosophers, as well emergent, or “post-evangelical”, leaders.  He is the author of several chapters, articles, and three books, as follows: Virtue Ethics and Moral Knowledge: Philosophy of Language After MacIntyre and Hauerwas (Ashgate, 2003); Truth and the New Kind of Christian: The Emerging Effects of Postmodernism in the Church (Crossway, 2005); and Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality: Testing Religious Truth-Claims (Ashgate, 2012).

Ted Turnau is a college professor teaching at Anglo-American College (a small, secular liberal arts college in Prague, Czech Republic) and at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University. Trained as an apologist (PhD from Westminster Theological Seminary), he has been teaching in Prague as part of the International Institute for Christian Studies team since 1999. He has taught classes on world religions, the sociology and anthropology of religion, modern intellectual history, the Pauline epistles, comparative theologies, and popular culture and media theory. He has written on how Christians can engage in popular culture and has an active "movie discussion night" ministry with his students. Ted has a wife, Carolyn, and three children, Roger, Claire, and Ruth.