Profiles
William Chellis
Bill grew up in the small town of Jeffersonville in the lower Catskill Mountains of New York. There he developed a love for the simplicity of agrarian virtues and the beauty of God’s creation.
Bill studied Political Science at the State University of New York at Oneonta. It was as a student at SUNY Oneonta, while studying Paul’s Book of Romans and Augustine’s City of God, that Bill was saved by faith through God’s truly amazing grace. By the grace that comes through the public proclamation of God’s Word, Bill became a citizen of the heavenly city and made public profession of faith in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America.
It was also as a student at SUNY Oneonta that Bill began a life long passion for the preservation of the permanent things. An admirer of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Richard Hooker, Edmund Burke, T.S. Eliot, and Russell Kirk, Bill raised his sword in defense of the ancient canon and the natural law.
Having received his B.S. in Political Science, Bill received his Juris Doctorate from Villanova University School of Law. During his time at Villanova, God graciously gave Bill the gift of a lovely and prudent wife, as he married his high school sweetheart, Katrina.
Having passed the New York Bar Exam, Bill and Katrina moved to Pittsburgh to begin the study of theology and preparation for the ministry of word and sacrament. Under the watchful care of the Atlantic Presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, Bill studied at Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Bill loves classical, confessional, covenant theology, and the work of the Protestant Scholastics, as well as all things ancient and medieval.The Chellis’ enjoy reading great works, long walks, a full table (especially Lord’s Day feasts), horses, dogs, and other humane accoutrements of life.
Bill and Katrina have a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, a son, William Augustine, and Great Dane, Knox.
R. Scott Clark
Dr. Clark has taught at Westminster Seminary California since 1997, during which time he also served as Academic Dean (1997-2000). He has taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, and Concordia University, Irvine. He has been a minister in the Reformed Church in the United States and is presently a minister in the United Reformed Churches. He has served congregations in Missouri and California. He is Associate Pastor of the Oceanside United Reformed Church, where he preaches and teaches regularly.
Among his publications are Caspar Olevian and the Substance of the Covenant: The Double Benefit of Christ; Protestant Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment (editor and contributor), The Foolishness of the Gospel: Covenant and Justification (editor and contributor), The Compromised Church: The Present Evangelical Crisis (contributor), The Pattern of Sound Doctrine: A Festschrift for Robert B. Strimple (contributor), The Westminster Confession into the 21st Century: Essays in Remembrance of the 350th Anniversary of the Publication of the Westminster Confession of Faith (contributor), The Faith Once Delivered: Celebrating the Legacy of Reformed Systematic Theology and the Westminster Assembly. Essays in Honor of Dr. Wayne R. Spear (contributor) and The New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics (contributor). He has also written for numerous academic journals, popular magazines and websites.
His outside interests include old-time radio, reading, and collecting books. Among his favorite authors are P.G. Wodehouse, C. S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, John Calvin, Johannes Wollebius, Martin Luther, and Gerhardus Vos. He and his wife Barbara have two children and live in Escondido.
Thomas Copeland
Thomas Copeland is an assistant professor of Political Science at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, PA. Previously he served as a national account manager and as Chief of Staff for the government services group of LexisNexis, the world’s largest provider of online information. He was Director of Admissions at The Institute of World Politics, and has worked for Legi-Slate (part of the Washington Post company) and the Office of Naval Research, among others. He has taught classes at the University of Pittsburgh and Trinity College in Washington, DC. He recently completed his dissertation on intelligence failures and mass casualty terrorism. He has published articles on military justice, terrorism, and technology transfer, and edited a US Army War College book on the information revolution.
He is a member of College Hill Reformed Presbyterian Church, and he and his wife Ava and children Maggie and Ian live in Beaver Falls.
William Edgar
Bill Edgar is the pastor of the Broomall Reformed Presbyterian Church just west of Philadelphia. People sometimes confuse him with Bill Edgar, Professor of Apologetics at Westminster Seminary. This Bill was graduated from Swarthmore College in 1968 and received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980 for studies in modern European and Middle Eastern history. He lived four years in Cyprus as a missionary, 1970-74, and later spent a year in Athens doing historical research. Bill contributed the chapter on National Confessionalism in the book God and Politics, 1989, and also wrote a chapter in the book, Explicitly Christian Politics, 1997. In addition to preaching, Bill has taught high school mathematics for the past 25 years.
Bill’s wife Gretchen was converted through his witness while they were in college together, and they have five children.
Richard C. Gamble
Richard C. Gamble is a native of Pittsburgh. He is a graduate of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and received his Ph.D. from Universitat Basel in Switzerland. He is an experienced seminary professor, teaching in the fields of church history and systematic theology, with years of service at Westminster Theological Seminary, Calvin Seminary, and Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, FL.
Professor Gamble is also an author and editor. He is the editor of a 14-volume anthology entitled Articles on Calvin and Calvinism, and was a contributing editor to Eerdmans’ Calvin s Old Testament Commentaries. He is nearly finished with a massive two-volume critical edition of Calvin’s Latin commentary on Genesis, and his book Calvin and the Church will soon be published. He also has pastoral experience in Philadelphia, PA, Grand Rapids, MI, and Oviedo, FL.
Professor Gamble is married; his wife’s name is Janice. They have five daughters-Lindsey, Liesl, Whitney, Hilary, and Gwenyth.
Harold B. Harrington
Born in Michigan and educated in its public schools. Was further educated at Geneva College, Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary and New College, University of Edinburgh. Served in the U.S. Navy. Was ordained and installed as a Reformed Presbyterian pastor in 1954. Was pastor of four Reformed Presbyterian congregations. Taught in several collages and seminaries including twenty-two years as Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Ottawa Theological Hall. Presently semi-retired. Serves as an elder in the Crown and Covenant Congregation of the RPCNA.
Harold is married to Ena Cover. Four children have been born to this union.
Darryl Hart
D. G. Hart is the Director for Partnered Projects at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Previously he was dean of academic affairs and professor of church history at Westminster Theological Seminary in California where he remains an adjunct member of the faculty. Earlier still he directed the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals and taught American history at Wheaton College.
Dr. Hart is the author of many books, such as John Williamson Nevin: High Church Calvinist; A Student’s Guide to Religious Studies; Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Era of Billy Graham; Recovering Mother Kirk: The Case for Liturgy in the Reformed Tradition; The Lost Soul of American Protestantism; That Old-Time Religion in Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century; With Reverence and Awe: Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship (co-author); The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies and American Higher Education; Fighting the Good Fight: A Brief History of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (co-author); and Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America.
He is an elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and lives in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia with his wife, Ann.
Daniel Howe
Daniel Howe teaches religion and heads the humanities department at Boston Trinity Academy, Boston’s only evangelical high school and one of the most diverse schools in the United States. He is a licentiate of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America and a 2002 graduate of Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Daniel was raised in upstate New York under the care of Christian parents and the excellent preaching of Kit Swartz. In 1999 he married Esther and they have two children. In 2006 Daniel and Esther moved from Massachusetts to northern Rhode Island to help plant a Reformed Presbyterian mission church.
Daniel’s interest in the relationship between the church and civil government began in his teen years when studies of Christianity and education led him to theonomist and national confessionalist writings, and he briefly joined the National Reform Association. He is now a recovered theonomist and interprets no more than two Old Testament civil laws literally each day. During studies at Geneva College Daniel became deeply interested in the redemptive-historical approach to Scripture described by Geerhardus Vos and championed by the late Charles Dennison. Since graduation from seminary he has been reading lots of Oliver O’Donovan, N.T. Wright, and Luke Timothy Johnson.
Michael LeFebvre
Pastor Michael LeFebvre and his wife Heather, live in the Avon area with their four children. Michael grew up in a Christian home, and came to faith in childhood.
After his schooling, Michael worked with a Christian parachurch ministry, and after that as a business writer.
Believing that the Lord was calling him to the pastorate, Michael moved to Indianapolis in 1996 to study in the seminary-level courses offered at Second Reformed Presbyterian Church. He later went to the RP Seminary in Pittsburgh, completing his MDiv there in early 2001. The LeFebvres moved to Scotland that autumn, and Michael completed a PhD in Old Testament studies with the University of Aberdeen in 2005.
In January, 2006, Michael was ordained to the Gospel ministry and installed as church-planting pastor of Christ Church RP.
Richard Lints
Dr. Lints has overlapping interests in systematic theology, Biblical theology, philosophy and cultural studies. He has authored the Fabric of Theology, co-authored 101 Terms in Philosophy for Theology Students, edited the collection of essays, Personal Identity in Theological Perspective, and has a forthcoming work entitled, Radical Ironies: Religion, the 1960s and the Dawn of the Postmodern World.
Dr Lints joined the Gordon-Conwell faculty in 1986. He has also taught at Trinity College (Bristol, UK) Notre Dame, Yale Divinity School and Gordon College.
Dr. Lints is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America. He has been a church planter and served in a variety of other pastoral positions in churches. He and his wife Ann reside in Boxborough, Massachusetts and have three children, Catherine, Sarah and Lucas.
Andrew Matthews
Californian by birth, Andrew was raised in a closed Plymouth Brethren fellowship, After growing up in Saudi Arabia and South Carolina, Andrew converted to Reformed Christianity with an Anglican spin.
He holds a B.A. in history from Cal State Long Beach. Currently a parishioner at St. Luke’s, a Reformed Episcopal parish in Santa Ana, CA, Andrew works in the construction field.
His blog, Unpopular Opinions, is devoted to defending Christendom and articulating a theological rationale for Christian monarchy.
John Muether
A native of Long Island, New York, John R. Muether (MAR, MSLS) has served since 1989 as Library Director of Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, where he also holds appointment as Associate Professor of Church History. Previously he served on the Harvard Divinity School library staff and has directed the libraries at Western Theological Seminary (Holland, Mich.) and Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia. He is the coauthor of several books including Reference Works for Theological Research (1992), Fighting the Good Fight: A Brief History of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (1995), With Reverence and Awe: Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship (2001), and Seeking a Better Country: 300 Years of American Presbyterianism (2007). Most recently he has authored The First Forty Years: Reformed Theological Seminary and Cornelius Van Til: Reformed Apologist and Churchman (2007).
Mr. Muether serves as a ruling elder at Reformation Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Oviedo, FL. He and his wife Kathy (librarian at the Geneva School in Winter Park) have four children, three of whom are attending Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. He also serves on the Christian Education Committee of the OPC and as the denominational historian of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
Caleb Stegall
Caleb Stegall is a country lawyer, writer, and editor of The New Pantagruel. He lives on a small farm in Kansas with his wife and their five sons.
Carl Trueman
Carl R Trueman is Departmental Chair of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.He has an MA in Classics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Church History from the University of Aberdeen.He is editor of the IFES journal, Themelios, and has taught on the faculties of theology at both the University of Nottingham and the University of Aberdeen.He has authored a number of books, including The Claims of Truth: John Owen’s Trinitarian Theology and The Wages of Spin: Critical Writings on Historic and Contemporary Evangelicalism.He lives in Oreland, a suburb of Philadelphia, with his wife, Catriona, and his two sons, John and Peter.