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  • Shadowlands Dispatch

    Shadowlands Dispatch is a magazine dedicated to cultural apologetics. Leadership team: Lanie Anderson, MDiv; Julie Miller, PhD; Melissa Travis, PhD; and Rebekah Valerius, MA

  • Logres Institute

    The Logres Institute for Classical Liberal Studies equips teachers to transmit the Western Tradition to the next generation. We want to help you get the education your college should have provided.

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    Single Christian writer, literary scholar, poet, and lawyer commenting on the arts, dating life, fantasy literature, and cultural issues.

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    Assistant Professor at HCU. Co-author of The Reconstruction Project: Recovering Truth and Rebuilding Faith (2026); author of Thinking God's Thoughts (2022) and Science and the Mind of the Maker (2018). Fellow at Discovery Institute.

  • Annie Crawford

    Cultural Apologist | Classical Educator | Lewis Scholar "The end of all endeavor is to be happy at home." - Samuel Johnson

  • Rebekah E. Valerius

    “The modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I still felt depressed even in acquiescence. But I had heard that I was in the wrong place, and my soul sang for joy like a bird in spring.” ~G.K. Chesterton

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