catapult magazine

Faith Engaged Conference lectures - 2002

by Marvin Olasky

Marvin Olasky is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, a senior fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, and the editor of World, a national weekly news magazine from a biblical perspective.?

He has written 13 books of history and cultural analysis, including Compassionate Conservatism, The American Leadership Tradition, The Tragedy of American Compassion, Fighting for Liberty and Virtue, and Abortion Rites. He has co-authored seven more and was general editor of the Turning Point Christian Worldview series.

Dr. Olasky received an B.A. from Yale University in 1971 and a Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1976. He is an elder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Austin and serves as a trustee of Covenant College, and an advisor to a variety of organizations. He and Susan, a journalist and author of children's historical novels, have four sons: Pete, David, Daniel, and Benjamin.

These lectures are no longer available online due to limited server space. We hope to be making them available on CD in the near future. Thanks! —ed. (11/20/03)