Instructors – BWSC 2025

Dr. Roger Schultz is Professor of History at Liberty University and specializes in American Religious History. Since 2006, he has served as Liberty’s Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; he also serves as Dean of the Honors College. He has a Ph.D. in History from the University of Arkansas and an M.A. in Church History from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has been a history professor for over 40 years. Roger and Ann Schultz have been married for 45 years, homeschooled nine children, and currently enjoy twenty-six grandchildren.

Ben grew up in the Finger Lakes region of New York. In 1999, he received his juris doctor degree from Oak Brook College of Law, and was subsequently admitted to the California bar. Thereafter, he attended Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, receiving his master of divinity degree in 2005. He served as associate pastor of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Franklin Square, New York, from December 2005 to September 2011. In September 2011, he became the organizing pastor of Trinity Church, where he still serves. He and his beloved wife Sarah have been blessed with four children, Katie, Andrew, Kenton, and Brieyn. Among his favorite things (next to his family) are hiking, beaches, bonfires, conversation, fine bourbon, and a lively game of chess.

John Eidsmoe is a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel and Judge Advocate and a retired Mississippi State Guard Colonel and Chaplain. He is a Professor of Constitutional Law at the Oak Brook College of Law & Government Policy, and a Professor of Christian Apologetics for the Institute of Lutheran Theology and Chafer Theological Seminary. In his various teaching roles, his students have awarded him Outstanding Professor and Professor of the Year five times. He has served as Senior Staff Attorney with the Alabama Supreme Court and has filed numerous amicus briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts. He is an ordained pastor with the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, for which he serves as Director of Military Chaplaincy, and pastors two rural Alabama churches. He is Chairman of the Board of the Plymouth Rock Foundation, a Board member of Lutherans for Life, Commander of a local American Legion Post, and is Grand Officer, Knight Commander, and Chaplain with the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem. He has authored 16 books, including Historical & Theological Foundations of Law (3 vols.), Christianity & the Constitution, Columbus & Cortez, and God & Caesar, and has produced numerous DVD albums, including the Institute on the Constitution. He hosts the radio program Constitution Classroom and speaks worldwide for churches and civic organizations. He is a Third Degree Black Belt with the American Taekwondo Foundation and a Fifth Degree Black Belt with the Gospel Martial Arts Union. He and his wife Marlene have been married since 1970, have three children (David, Kirsten, and Justin), and live in rural Pike Road, Alabama.

Donald T. Williams (B.A., Taylor University, M.Div., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, PhD, University of Georgia) is Professor Emeritus of Toccoa Falls College in the hills of NE Georgia, having served for over thirty years there as R. A. Forrest Scholar and Professor of Theology and Literature. A border dweller, Williams stays permanently camped out on the borders between theology and literature, serious scholarship and pastoral ministry, Narnia and Middle-Earth. An ordained minister in the Evangelical Free Church of America, he has spent several summers over the last decade and a half training local pastors in Uganda, Kenya, and India for Church Planting International. A past president of the International Society of Christian Apologetics known as an Inklings scholar and a Christian Apologist, he is the author of many articles and of fifteen books, including Deeper Magic: The Theology Behind the Writings of C. S. Lewis (Square Halo Books, 2016), An Encouraging Thought: The Christian Worldview in the Writings of J. R. R. Tolkien (Christian Publishing House, 2018), The Young Christian’s Survival Guide: Common Questions Young Christians are Asked about God, the Bible, and the Christian Faith Answered (Christian Publishing House, 2019), Stars through the Clouds: The Collected Poetry of Donald T. Williams (Lantern Hollow Press, 2020), Ninety-Five Theses for a New Reformation: A Road Map for Post-Evangelical Christianity (Semper Reformanda Publications, 2021), Answers from Aslan: The Enduring Apologetics of C. S. Lewis (DeWard, 2023), and An Account of Things Accomplished: An Exposition of the Gospel according to Luke (Christicommunity Press, 2024) . His website is www.donaldtwilliams.com. He blogs at www.thefiveilgrims.com.

Brian Thomas received a master’s in biotechnology in 1999 from Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, and a Ph.D. in paleobiochemistry in 2019 from the University of Liverpool. He taught junior high, high school, and college at Dallas-area schools and universities. In 2008 Dr. Thomas joined the Institute for Creation Research as a science writer and editor, contributing news and magazine articles, speaking on creation issues, and researching original tissue fossils. He was appointed Research Scientist in 2021. He wrote Dinosaurs and the Bible and Ancient and Fossil Bone Collagen Remnants. He contributed to Guide to Creation Basics, Creation Basics & Beyond, Guideto Dinosaurs, Guide to the Human Body, Dinosaurs: God’s Mysterious Creatures and other ICR products as well as technical articles related to fossil proteins.