Speakers for 2024
Abdu Murray
Abdu Murray is an brilliant thinker, speaker, author, and attorney who specializes in addressing issues where religious faith and emerging cultural trends intersect and collide. Abdu has spent decades analyzing how the major religious and non-religious thought traditions have attempted to address emerging cultural issues. Murray has tackled complex issues in Q&A forums, debates, and dialogues at leading universities.
He received his Juris Doctor from University of Michigan Law School and worked as an accomplished lawyer in Detroit. He lives in the Metro Detroit area with his wife and their three children.
He has written four books, his most recent being More than a White Man’s Religion: Why the Gospel is Not Merely White, Male-Centered, or Just a Religion
Dr. Rice Broocks
Dr. Rice Broocks is a bestselling author of several books including the book “God’s Not Dead” that has been translated into 14 languages. He has spoken at universities in over 40 nations. A graduate of Mississippi State University, he has a master's degree from Reformed Theological Seminary and a doctorate from Fuller Theological Seminary. His doctorae was in the field of missiology which focuses on the intersection of the Christian faith and the wide variety of global cultures and beliefs.
Dr. Broocks works closely with a team of scientists, philosophers, and historians, that facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue between faith and science. Dr. Broocks enjoys the intellectual rigor of discussion the big questions about God and Science. He is thoughtful and gracious as he engages with people about the existence of God and the claims of the Christian faith.
Dr. Brian Miller
Dr. Brian Miller holds a B.S. in physics with a minor in engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in complex systems physics from Duke Universit. He is a Research Coordinator for the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute. He speaks internationally on the evidence for design in nature. He is recognized as a world expert on how principles of thermodynamics require preexistent information in the origin of life. His current research focus is on the interrelationship between engineering and biology. He is also a technical consultant for THESTARTUP.com, a virtual incubator dedicated to bringing innovation to the marketplace. And, he provided research support for the books God’s Not Dead and Man, Myth, Messiah authored by Dr. Rice Broocks.
Alycia Wood
As a child growing up in the church, Alycia always had questions. She wanted to dig deeper into the Christian faith beyond the Sunday morning sermon. That fueled an independent search into digging into the larger questions of life. While studying for a degree in Criminal Justice and Sociology at Robert Wesleyan College, Alycia discovered Apologetics, and it changed the course of her life. Her quest for deeper understanding of her Christianity had a name.
She went on to get her Master’s in Social Justice from Marygrove college to further her passion for serving those in need in the developing world. This led to various volunteering opportunities at orphanages, prisons, and shelters for the homeless in various countries including Haiti, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.
Alycia has spent many years as a teacher’s aide and substitute teacher for multiple grade levels. For the past nine years, she has been doing full-time apologetics ministry, traveling and speaking on various topics, relevant to our culture. She has spoken on many college campuses in the U.S. and other countries. She is currently with the C.S. Lewis Society in Tampa
In her spare time, she is an avid sports fan, musician and grower of all things edible in her garden.
Dr. Sean McDonough
Dr. McDonough is a professor of New Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, MA.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts at Harvard College. He also earned a Master of Divinity and a Master of Theology from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He earned his Doctorate in New Testament from the University of St. Andrews.
His research interests include creation/cosmology in the Bible and the Ancient Near East, Hellenistic Judaism, Greek philosophy and religion and the Book of Revelation.
Dr. McDonough’s personal interests include supporting Boston’s sports teams, spending time with his family, traveling and hiking.