NANCY PEARCEY

Nancy R. Pearcey is editor-at-large of The Pearcey Report and professor of worldview studies at Philadelphia Biblical University. Previously she was the Francis A. Schaeffer Scholar at the World Journal-ism Institute, where she taught a worldview course based on her book Total Truth, winner of the 2005 ECPA Gold Medallion Award for best book on Christianity and Society.

Formerly an agnostic, Nancy studied violin in Heidel- berg in the early 1970s, then traveled to Switzerland to study Christian worldview at L'Abri Fellowship, where Francis Schaeffer was living and teaching. Lat-er she graduated from Iowa State University with a Distributed Studies degree (philosophy, German, mus- ic). After earning a master's in Biblical Studies from Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, she pur- sued graduate work in the history of philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. She has been a visiting scholar at Biola University's Torrey Honors Institute and is a senior fellow at the Disco- very Institute.

Heralded as "one of the few female intellectuals in evangelicalism" (Evangelical Outpost), Nancy has ad- dressed staffers on Capitol Hill and at the White House; actors and screenwriters in Hollywood; sci- entists at labs such as Sandia and Los Alamos; stu- dents and faculty at Stanford, Dartmouth, Princeton, USC, Ohio State, and the University of Georgia; as well as educational and activist groups, including the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. She has ap- peared on NPR and C-SPAN.

Nancy began publishing articles on science and world- view in 1977 for the Bible-Science Newsletter, where for 13 years she analyzed the Christian worldview themes she would develop more fully in later books and articles. In 1991 she became the founding editor of the daily radio program "BreakPoint," where she served for nearly nine years as executive editor, heading up a team of writers producing broadcast-ready commentaries. Under her intellectual leadership, the program grew into an influential outlet for a Christian worldview perspective on current events, with an estimated weekly audience of five million. She was also policy director and senior fellow of the Wil- berforce Forum, and for five years she coauthored a monthly column in Christianity Today.

Nancy has served as managing editor of Origins & De- sign, an editorial board member of Salem Communi- cations, and a commentator on Public Square Radio. Her articles have appeared in the Washington Times, Human Events, First Things, World, Pro Rege, Human Life Review, American Enterprise, The Family in America, and the Regent University Law Review.

Nancy has authored or coauthored several works, in- cluding The Soul of Science and How Now Shall We Live? She contributed the Foreword to The Right Questions, and chapters to Of Pandas and People, Mere Creation, Pro-Life Feminism, Genetic Ethics, Signs of Intelligence, Reading God's World, Uncom- mon Dissent, and a forthcoming Phillip Johnson Fest- schrift titled Darwin's Nemesis. Nancy and Rick are homeschooling the second of their two sons.

Selected Articles

• Why Darwinism Matters: Washington, D.C., Policy Briefing
• Michael Kinsley Out on a Limb: Stem-Cell Rationale Re- calls Ideas of Debunked Scientist
• Our "Tailor-made" Universe: New Scientific Study Begs the Philosophical Question, "Who's the tailor?"
• The Birds and the Bees
• A New Foundation for Positive Cultural Change
• Is Love Enough? Recreating the Economic Base of the Family

J. RICHARD PEARCEY

John Richard Pearcey is editor and publisher of The Pearcey Report. Born in Germany, ed- ucated in the United States, Canada, and Germany, Rick has been writing and editing since the mid-1970s. His work took on a journalistic focus when in the late 1980s the family moved to Washington, D.C., and Rick entered a pro- gram at the National Journalism Center. The Pearceys' apartment just across from the Supreme Court Build- ing afforded them an intriguing perspective on life in the nation's capital.

Rick has served as managing editor of the Capitol Hill political weekly Human Events, associate editor of the Evans-Novak Political Report, and senior writer with the MacLaurin Institute. He has also held several editorial positions at The World & I magazine, pub- lished by the Washington Times Corporation. While at the National Journalism Center, he participated in an internship at Radio America.

Among his favorite editorial projects are Nancy's book Total Truth: Liberating Christianity From Its Cultural Captivity, and David Limbaugh's Persecution: How Lib- erals Are Waging War Against Christianity, for which Rick served as primary editor. Rick has also been a guest editor of the science journal Origins & Design, and his research projects include studying sex edu- cation in Canadian schools. In November 2006, he added Pro-Existence as the weblog of The Pearcey Report.

In the early 1970s, having seen something of the downside of an inadequate and sometimes oppressive expression of evangelicalism, Rick was willing to re- consider the truth-claims of Christianity, and to walk away from that worldview if it lacked sufficient in- tellectual support in connection with life in this world. During this time he traveled to Europe, landing in Luxembourg via Icelandic Air, eventually hitch-hiking to Switzerland to see first-hand whether the reality of L'Abri Fellowship matched the appealing description of that work as set forth in the Schaeffers' books. At L'Abri in Huemoz Rick met Os Guinness and Udo Middelmann, both of whose work he continues to appreciate. While in Huemoz, Rick also met Nancy Randolph, and several years later they were married in Apple Valley, Minnesota.

Rick's work has appeared in publications such as Hu- man Events, The Examiner, Boundless, The World & I, and Citizen. He writes on film, books, the arts, science, politics, social issues, and worldview. Rick holds an M.Div. from Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, and an M.Phil.F. from the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, where he studied Christian worldview and wrote a masters thesis on Carl F. H. Henry and the Question of Empirical Verification. While in Toronto, Rick led seminars at the University of Toronto on the thought of Francis Schaeffer and the philosophy of Dutch neo-Calvinist Hermann Dooyeweerd.

Guitarist with a nod to the blues, a sometime dabbler in paint and piano, Rick has led classes in cultural analysis based on the Schaeffer book-video project How Should We Then Live? The Pearceys have two sons, the younger of whom they homeschool.

Selected Articles

• A Tribute to the Empyreal Buckley
• Easter and Other Four-Letter Words
• Those Ten Commandments: Did Chief Justice Moore Go Too Far?
• Did Madonna Go Far Enough?
• Books: Pizza With Michelangelo
• Books: A Fascist by Any Other Name
• Film: We Were Soldiers: Flesh, Blood, and Spirit in the Val- ley of Death
• Rosie's Coat