Articles by Nancy Pearcey

Nancy R. Pearcey is the Francis A. Schaeffer Scholar at the World Journalism Institute, a visiting scholar at Biola University's Torrey Honors Institute, and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute. She studied under Schaeffer at L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland, and went on to earn a master's degree from Covenant Theological Seminary, followed by graduate work in history of philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. She also studied violin at Iowa State University and in Heidelberg, Germany.

Mrs. Pearcey is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities, and has been writing on science and Christian worldview since 1977. In 1991, she became the founding editor of BreakPoint, a daily syndicated radio commentary program hosted and voiced by Chuck Colson, and was executive editor of the program for nearly nine years. During the same period, she served as policy director and senior fellow of the Wilberforce Forum, and coauthored a monthly column in Christianity Today.

Pearcey has served as the managing editor of the journal Origins & Design, an editorial board member for Salem Communications Network, and a commentator on Public Square Radio. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Times, Human Events, First Things, Books & Culture, World, The Human Life Review, Christianity Today, and the Regent University Law Review.

She has authored or contributed to several works, including The Soul of Science, on the history of science and Christianity since the scientific revolution; and the best-selling, award-winning How Now Shall We Live? She has contributed chapters to Mere Creation, Of Pandas and People, Pro-Life Feminism, Genetic Ethics, Signs of Intelligence, Reading God's World, Uncommon Dissent, and a Phillip Johnson Festschrift titled A Man for This Season. Her most recent book is Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity.