When

Thursday May 14, 2015 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM MDT
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Where

Rushmore Plaza Civic Center - La Croix Hall 
444 Mount Rushmore Road
Rapid City, SD 57701  

 
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Contact

Carol Harris
John Witherspoon College 
605-342-0317605-342-0317  
charris@johnwitherspooncollege.org

Meet Lee Strobel

Athiest-turned-Apologist

Lee Strobel, the former award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune, is a New York Times best-selling author of more than twenty books and serves as Professor of Christian Thought at Houston Baptist University.

Described in The Washington Post as "one of the evangelical community's most popular apologists," Lee shared the Christian Book of the Year award in 2005 for a curriculum he co-authored with Garry Poole about the movie "The Passion of the Christ." He also won Gold Medallions for The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, and The Case for a Creator, all of which have been made into documentaries distributed by Lionsgate. His latest works include his first novel, The Ambition, and The Case for Christ Study Bible, which features hundreds of notes and articles.

Lee was educated at the University of Missouri (Bachelor of Journalism) and Yale Law School (Master of Studies in Law). He was a journalist for 14 years at The Chicago Tribune and other newspapers, winning Illinois' highest honor for public service journalism from United Press International. He also led a team that won UPI’s top award for investigative reporting in Illinois.

After investigating the evidence for Jesus, Lee became a Christian in 1981. He joined the staff of Willow Creek Community Church in 1987 and later became a teaching pastor. He joined Saddleback Valley Community Church as a teaching pastor in 2000. He left Saddleback to write books and host the national network TV program "Faith Under Fire."

Lee's other books include The Case for the Real Jesus, Finding the Real Jesus, God's Outrageous Claims, The Case for Christmas, The Case for Easter, The Unexpected Adventure (co-authored with Mark Mittelberg), and Surviving a Spiritual Mismatch in Marriage, which he wrote with his wife, Leslie.
Lee also co-authored the "Becoming a Contagious Christian" course, which has trained more than a million Christians on how to talk with others about Jesus naturally and effectively.