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  Jana Harmon

  Senior Fellow For Christian Apologetics, CSLI
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Jana Harmon
Senior Fellow For Christian Apologetics, CSLI
Jana Harmon, Ph.D, is the Senior Fellow For Christian Apologetics for the C.S. Lewis Institute and a Teaching Fellow for C.S. Lewis Institute Atlanta. She serves on the Atlanta Advisory Board and as an Adjunct Professor of Cultural Apologetics at Biola University. Her doctoral research studied the religious conversion of atheists to Christianity looking at the perspectives and stories of 50 former Atheists. She views apologetics through a practical, evangelistic lens. She is the host of the podcast eX-skeptic for the C.S. Lewis Institute. Jana received her PhD from the University of Birmingham, England.
 
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  Sue Warnke

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Sue Warnke
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Sue Warnke, Speaker, she is the Senior Director of Content Experience at Salesforce and part of the founding team of Faithforce, the fastest-growing employee resource group in Salesforce's history. After converting to Christianity in 2017, she helped launch faith groups at various companies and have become a speaker and advocate for faith inclusion in the workplace. Her mission is to make faith practical by offering real-world strategies. Leaners are bold, unashamed of their faith, and shrewd in their actions. Rather than leading by their own strength, they lean on God for direction and power. Anyone can be a learner.
 
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  Jeff Dockman

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Jeff Dockman
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Jeff Dockman, Podcast Guest, he wanted nothing to do with religion. Over time, his presumptions about the world, and his place in it, ceased to make sense and he began to consider the possibility of God.
 
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  Jim Thring

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Jim Thring
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Jim Thring, Podcast Guest, A Christian for 15 years, he rejected his faith and identified as an humanist-atheist for nine years. Although he could not see a possible return to God, he found a more robust faith than he had once left.
 
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  C.S. Lewis Institute

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C.S. Lewis Institute
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C.S. Lewis Institute, in the legacy of C.S. Lewis, works to develop wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ who will articulate, defend, share, and live their faith in personal and public life. Founded in 1976 by Dr. James Houston and James R. Hiskey, the Institute provides leading teachers who address important issues of the day from the perspective of Biblical orthodoxy, while also providing discipleship for individuals in small groups.
 
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  Jeremy Evans

  Podcast Guest
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Jeremy Evans
Podcast Guest
Jeremy Evans,  Podcast Guest, a Former skeptic, he comfortably presumed his atheism was true until a sobering event caused him to ask life's biggest questions. To know more about Jeremy, visit www.dreamcenterevansville.org and Unbelievable Podcast.
 
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  Rachel Gilson

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Rachel Gilson
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Rachel Gilson,  Campus Minister, she embraced atheism until her intellectual curiosity regarding God's existence led her to Jesus. She is also a writer and she also has a wonderful book called Born Again This Way.
 
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  Mike Bird

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Mike Bird
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Mike Bird, Lecturer , a Former atheist, tells his story of moving from a culturally-informed skepticism and caricatured Christianity to finding that perhaps his presumptions were mistaken. He is also an Academic Dean and Lecturer in New Testament at Ridley College)
 
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  Robert Kunda

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Robert Kunda
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Robert Kunda, Podcast Guest, former atheist Robert Kunda took a closer look at his atheistic presumptions, opening him to new possibilities.
 
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  Brian Causey

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Brian Causey
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Brian Causey, Financial Trader, is a director at a Seattle, Washington-based investment company. He manages a team focused on various portfolio solutions for large institutions such as endowments, foundations, and state and corporate pension funds. Over his career as a portfolio manager, he has instructed trades valued at nearly a trillion dollars. Brian is a licensed registered representative and a CFA® charterholder. Brian was not raised in the church and this is the journey of his search for truth. He is now actively involved in local ministries, has taught apologetics classes at his church, and blogs about spiritual matters. Brian and his wife, Karlie, have a son (Blaise) and live near Alki Beach.
 
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  Bruce Blackshaw

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Bruce Blackshaw
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Bruce Blackshaw, Podcast Guest, tells his story of moving from atheism as informed by science to a rational Christian faith that informs both science as well as the most profound questions of life.