HCU to Host Sixth Annual Author Celebration

Houston Christian University is proud to announce the return of the Author Celebration on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The event will highlight the written works of HCU faculty and staff that have been published since the last Author Celebration was held in 2023.

The Author Celebration will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the MD Anderson Student Center on the HCU campus and is free and open to the public. Guests can meet the authors in person, purchase their books, and get books signed.

Featured authors represent a diverse set of fields that include fiction, theology, spirituality, education, psychology, history, and literature.

Represented HCU authors will include:

• Katie Alaniz, Associate Professor of Education
  • A Learning Community Built on Strengths: Inspiring Educators to Positively Impact Student Lives
• Encarna Bermejo, Professor of Spanish
  • "Traducción pedagógica y el aprendizaje-enseñanza del español: actitudes y prácticas en Estados Unid" (Association for the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language (ASELE))
• Timothy Brookins, Professor of Early Christianity
  • Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Corinthians
• David Davis, Professor of History
  • "America's Professor: The Afterlife of CS Lewis" (Spectator World)
  • "Hovering Saints, Floating Friars" (Wall Street Journal)
• Austin Freeman, Assistant Professor of Theology
  • "Ted's Chestertonian Optimism" (chapter in Ted Lasso and Philosophy: No Question Is Into Touch)
• Shannon Holzer, Assistant Professor of Government
  • The Palgrave Handbook of Religion and State: Volume 1 Theoretical Perspectives (editor)
  • The Palgrave Handbook of Religion and State: Volume 2 Global Perspectives (editor)
• Louis Markos, Professor of English
  • "Theology of Middle-Earth: Review: 'Tolkien Dogmatics' by Austin M. Freeman" (The Gospel Coalition)
  • "Husbands and Wives in Homer" (TheImaginative Conservative)
  • "Purest Fiction" (Touchstone)
  • Review of Tales of Faith: A Guide to Sharing the Gospel through Literature by Holly Ordway (Saint Austin Review)
  • "Reason and Logic Belong to God. So Do Imagination and Myth." (Christianity Today)
  • Review of The Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology by Paul Rovang (Reformation 21)
  • "Athenagoras of Athens" (Christian Research Journal)
  • Review of The Chronicles of Transformation: A Spiritual Journey with C. S. Lewis, edited by Leonard J. DeLorenzo (Saint Austin Review)
  • "How Christianity Fixes 'Toxic Masculinity'" (The Federalist)
  • "The Martyrdom of Polycarp" (Christian Research Journal)
  • "The Divine Stage" (Touchstone)
  • "Markos Reviews Truth Changes Everything" (Reformation 21)
  • "Christ in China" (Touchstone)
  • Review of Faithful Learning: A Vision for Theologically Integrated Education by Jason Shatzer(Christian Scholar's Review)
  • "A Conservative Evangelical Defense of Disney" (Christianity Today)
  • Review of A Thousand Words: Reflections on Art and Christianity by Mary Elizabeth Podles(The Imaginative Conservative)
  • "Aristotle On Democracy and The Middle Class" (Ford Forum)
  • "How To Stop Cultural Marxism From Destroying Your Church" (The Federalist)
  • Review of The Inferno: A Novel by Winston Brady (The Imaginative Conservative)
  • "Is Atheism Dead?" (The Worldview Bulletin)
  • "Mining Middle-Earth" (Touchstone)
  • "What is Classical Education?" (The Disputed Question)
• Phillip Marshall, Associate Professor of Biblical Languages
  • Like Nails Firmly Fixed (Qoh 12:11) (editor)
  • "Unmarked and Case-Marked Left-Dislocations: The Case of Qoheleth" (essay in Like Nails Firmly Fixed (Qoh 12:11))
  • "Haggai" (Dictionary of the New Testament Use of the Old Testament)
• Nancy Pearcey, Professor of Apologetics
  • The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes
• Mary Jo Sharp, Assistant Professor of Apologetics
  • "Have You Ever Wondered Why We Are Drawn to Beauty?" chapter in the book, Have You Ever Wondered? edited by Andy Bannister and Gavin Matthews
• Robert Sloan, University President
  • Hamelin Stoop: The Battle of Parthogen
• Christopher Sneller, Lecturer in Missional Theology
  • Exporting Progressivism to Communist China
• Michael Ward, Professor of Apologetics
  • Popcorn with the Pope: A Guide to the Vatican Film List

For additional information or questions, contact Angela Merkle at [email protected].