Today's interview is with Michael Ward, Professor of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University and director of HBU's new C. S. Lewis Centre in Oxford. Michael is a leading expert on the works of C.S. Lewis. He talks about his background, the influence of C. S. Lewis, Lewis's Oxford home, the C. S. Lewis Centre in Oxford, why Lewis had an impact apologetically, the rational and the imaginative, Lewis in Poet's Corner, HBU's apologetics program, areas where Christians can make an impact, advice for Christian apologists, and more.

Books by Michael Ward include:
• Planet Narnia
• The Narnia Code
• Heresies and How to Avoid Them: Why It Matters What Christians Believe (editor)
• The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis (editor)
• Imaginative Apologetics (contributor)

Full Interview MP3 Audio here (33 min)

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Today's interview is with Lou Markos, Professor in English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University. And he's a C.S. Lewis expert. He talks about literary apologetics (or cultural apologetics), why and how Christians should write and be involved in culture, his recent book On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis, the different approaches of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, how we need cultural apologists today, HBU's apologetics program, advice for apologists, and the biggest apologetic lesson he has learned from C.S. Lewis.

Full Interview MP3 Audio here (52 min)
Books by Louis Markos include:
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In this lecture, provided by Faith Bible Church, literary apologist Holly Ordway discusses the role of literature and culture in applying apologetics. (You may also be interested in her interviews with Ap315 here and here.) Holly is author of Not God’s Type: A Rational Academic Finds a Radical Faith, which is highly recommended by Apologetics 315.

Full MP3 Audio here (55 min)
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"The most effective apologetic is not a treatise but a novel."

Today's interview is with Holly Ordway. Holly is an academic, a poet, a Christian apologist and author of Not God’s Type: A Rational Academic Finds a Radical Faith. She is also director of ACM's Literary Apologetics Certificate program. She talks about literary apologetics, what it is and is not, excellence and creativity, what apologetics looks like through literature and the arts, developing and sharpening the skills of the literary apologist, the Literary Apologetics Certificate, and more. Visit Holly's blog: Hieropraxis.

Full Interview MP3 Audio here. (30 min)
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