Sarah Flashing, MA, is a writer and speaker with a passion for teaching women how to discover truth. She has been in ministry to women in the church for several years, equipping them on a range of topics including women’s ministry, apologetics and theology, and topics in bioethics. She is an avid blogger and her pieces can be read at The Center for Women of Faith in Culture, First Things/Evangel, and CT’s Gifted for Leadership blog.
Sarah has been a guest on numerous radio programs including the John and Kathy Show and MBN’s Prime Time America. She has testified before the Illinois State Legislature on embryonic stem cell research. Sarah is also an adjunct instructor of ethics at McHenry County College and speaks regularly at churches. Sarah and her husband, George, live in Harvard, Illinois with their 3 teenage boys and 3 cats.
Susan M. Haack, MD, MA (Bioethics), FACOG, is a board-certified obstetrician gynecologist . A native of Minnesota, she attended Western Michigan University and University of Texas, Austin, majoring in music, followed by medical school at UTMB-Galveston. She completed her residency in obstetrics-gynecology at Northwestern University-McGaw Medical Center in Chicago, and her MA in Bioethics from Trinity International University where she is currently pursuing a Master of Divinity.
Dr. Haack has spoken and written on issues pertaining to the beginning of life, end of life, professionalism and right of conscience. Additionally, she frequently reviews books for Ethics & Medicine. She and her husband, Dr. James Speichinger, practiced obstetrics and gynecology for 15 years in Pennsylvania before returning to Wisconsin where they currently practice consultative gynecology at Mile Bluff Medical Center in Mauston, Wisconsin, USA. Additionally, Dr. Haack is an Associate Fellow with The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity.
Keith Plummer, PhD, is associate professor in the School of Bible and Ministry at Philadelphia Biblical University. He graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and spent two years in the healthcare field. Dr. Plummer then attended Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where he completed an MDiv and PhD in systematic theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. His dissertation was entitled, “Canonically Competent to Counsel: An Analysis of the Use of the Bible in Biblical Counseling, Integration, and Christian Psychology with a Canonical Linguistic Proposal for Reclaiming Pastoral Counseling as a Theological Discipline.” He also served for several years as the counseling/teaching pastor at Our Saviour Evangelical Free Church in Wheeling, Illinois, where he has taught classes on postmodernism, the Christian mind, introduction to critical thinking, biblical counseling, apologetics, worldview, Christian ethics, and systematic theology.
Dr. Plummer has written a number of book reviews and for several years maintained his blog entitled The Christian Mind, where he reflected on the interface between faith and culture with an emphasis on the cultivation of the intellectual life as a necessary aspect of Christian discipleship.
Keith and his wife, Ingrid, have been married for eighteen years and have two children: Candace and Brandon.
