Malone University Center for Christian Faith & Culture lecture to feature Holly Ordway on "Not God's Type"

The Center for Christian Faith & Culture, in partnership with the C.S. Lewis Institute of Northeast Ohio, is pleased to welcome Holly Ordway to Malone University for a presentation and luncheon on April 12 at 12 noon in the Brehme Centennial Conference Center. This is an especially timely topic for pastors and all Christians concerned with communicating the faith at a time when an increasing number of people are unchurched.

Holly Ordway once thought she was “not God’s type” - an atheist professor hostile to Christianity - but she discovered that following the truth led her on an unexpected journey. In this talk, she shares her journey from atheism to Christian faith. In particular, she discusses how the imagination, working through stories and poetry, played a crucial role in her conversion to Christianity as well as her growth as a Christian. Her story shows what it’s like to move from outside the Faith to inside, and provides encouragement and insights for those who are involved in apologetics, evangelization, preaching, and teaching.

Professor of English Holly Ordway serves as a faculty member in the MA in Apologetics at Houston Baptist University; she holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Apologetics and the Christian Imagination: An Integrated Approach to Defending the Faith (Emmaus Road, 2017) and Not God’s Type: An Atheist Academic Lays Down Her Arms (Ignatius, 2014). Ordway also is a published poet, and a subject editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies. Her academic work focuses on imaginative apologetics, and on the writings of the Inklings, especially C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Her current book in progress is Tolkien’s Modern Sources: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages.