John Lennox
John is Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University and adjunct Professor of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. He also holds an MA in Bioethics. John is interested in the interface of Science, Philosophy and Theology. He has lectured and written on mathematics, Christian apologetics, and in particular, the Science-Religion debate. Titles include God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? and Christianity: Opium or Truth? (the latter co-authored with David Gooding).
He has debated a number of the world's leading atheists including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. In Sydney 2008, John also debated Michael Shermer in conjunction with National Science Week. John and his wife Sally live near Oxford and have three children and four grandchildren.
Stephen Um
Stephen is Senior Minister of Citylife Church in Boston, USA, a center city church with an ethnically diverse group of professional and creative urbanites. He also teaches New Testament studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Stephen is a director and Secretary for The Gospel Coalition. He is also the President of The Center for Gospel Culture (www.centerforgospelculture.org).
Stephen and his wife Kathleen have three children, Noël, Adeline, and Charlotte.
Ray Galea
Ray is married to Sandy and they have three children James, 21, Amy, 19 and Madeleine, 15. He is senior minister of St Alban's Anglican Rooty Hill. Ray has a special brief to work cross culturally among second generation Mediterranean and Middle Eastern people in the west of Sydney. This work comes under the title of the Multicultural Bible Ministry (MBM).
Prior to attending Moore College, Ray worked as a Social Worker in Wollongong for three years - specialising in Marriage and Family Counselling.
Ray loves reading, eating Middle Eastern food, listening to Bob Dylan and watching films set in New York.
