Crisis in the Public Square: A Response from the Kuyperian Tradition

He has been featured in Fox News Opinion, First Things Magazine, USA Today, The Daily Signal, The Daily Caller, The Gospel Coalition, and other national outlets. He has appeared on National Public Radio (NPR), Fox Radio, and many other nationally syndicated shows.

He is a Senior Fellow in Public Theology at the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics (Cambridge, UK), and a participant in the Dulles Colloquium of the Institute on Religion & Public Life (New York, NY), and a Research Fellow at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (Nashville, TN).

He has spoken at universities, seminaries, and churches across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, including those associated with the Baptist, Presbyterian, Anglican, Methodist, and Assemblies of God denominations.

Alan has more than two decades of experience in non-profit executive management and college level teaching including vice-president for policy and academic affairs at Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and director of development at International Students, Inc. in Colorado Springs. His military service includes platoon and artillery battery command as well as various battalion staff operations and planning positions in the U.S. Army. Alan holds degrees from Westminster Theological Seminary (M.A.R.) and Cairn University (B.S.). He is an ordained clergyman with canonical residence in the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA) and membership in the Anglican Church in North America. Alan and his wife, Michelle, have a teenaged daughter, four married adult children, and five grandchildren and make their home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In the beginning of the school existence he was teaching Church History, Greek and Missiology. Later he began to teach the Old Testament subjects and Philosophy. In 2002 he received his PhD (Systematic Theology and Old Testament) from the Lutheran Theological Faculty in Bratislava and in 2007 a ThDr (Philosophical Issues for Theologians) from Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica. In 2009, after the successful defence of his habilitation research thesis (Theology of Catastrophe According to the Book of Job), he became an associate professor, and started to do more teaching and training in churches mainly in Slovakia. One of his main research topics are the post-Marxist residuals in Central and Eastern Europe. 

Dr. Ma published three books and numerous articles both in English and Chinese. Her book Surviving the State, Remaking the Church has been listed as Ten Outstanding Books in Mission Research of 2017 by International Bulletin of Mission Research. Her most recent book The Chinese Exodus serves the first migration-related public theology in the Chinese context. She also writes a column for Caixin.com, China's largest financial media group. Her articles on public policy and NGO governance appear on Initium and Financial Times as well.

Prior to attending graduate school, she spent several years providing research for various non-profit organizations in Washington, D.C., including the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. She has participated in fellowships with the Claremont Institute; the John Jay Institute; the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs; and the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society in Krakow, Poland. Debbie holds a Ph.D and an M.A. in Political Science from Baylor University, and a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Ashland University.