2014 Winner of the Outstanding Spokesperson on Faith, Science, and Stewardship Award
Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in the application of Biblical world view, theology, and ethics to economics, environmental stewardship, political philosophy, public policy, and apologetics. He is founder and national spokesman of theCornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation.
The Cornwall Alliance is a network of theologians, pastors, other ministry leaders, scientists, economists, other scholars, and policy experts committed to applying Biblical principles to the twin challenges of economic development for the very poor around the world and wise Earth stewardship.
A theologian and historian, Dr. Beisner also has become well-versed in the science of global warming as well as in how the issue gets handled in religion and politics. He has testified as an expert witness on the theology, ethics, science, and economics of climate change policy before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce; briefed the White House Council on Environmental Policy; delivered a paper at a conference at the Vatican sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; and spoken at the 2008, 2009, and 2010 International Conferences on Climate Change and at colleges, churches, and other venues.
In 2014, Dr. Beisner received the Outstanding Spokesperson on Faith, Science, and Stewardship Award and a cash stipend from The Heritage Foundation. The award was presented in Las Vegas at the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change on July 7-9.
read more Dr. Beisner has spoken recently on environmental ethics and policy at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Talbot School of Theology, Charleston Southern University, and Biola University, as well as at churches, and at The Heritage Foundation and Family Research Council, and was a guest on Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck hour-long special program discussing how the Green movement is infiltrating churches and targeting youth and on MSNBC discussing evangelicals and the environment. He designed the Cornwall Alliance’s 12-lecture DVD series Resisting the Green Dragon (2010) and delivered two of the lectures. He is a former associate professor (2000–2008) of historical theology and social ethics at Knox Theological Seminary, where he taught church history, ethics, apologetics, logic, systematic theology, and non-Christian religions. Before Knox he taught for eight years at Covenant College (1992–2000) as associate professor of interdisciplinary studies in economics, government, and public policy. He served as an elder and on the pastoral staff of Holy Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, which he helped plant. Dr. Beisner is an adjunct fellow of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty; an adjunct scholar of the Committee For a Constructive Tomorrow; a fellow of the Institute on Religion and Democracy; and a member of the advisory board of the Templeton Freedom Awards program of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. Dr. Beisner is a frequent radio talk show guest with such nationally syndicated programs as Janet Parshall’s In the Market (Moody Radio), Bryan Fischer’s Focal Point (American Family Radio), and several Salem Radio Network programs. He has written 11 books and more than two hundred articles and book reviews, many contributions to books, and many unpublished lectures and papers, technical and popular. His most recent book contributions are “The Character of the Good Apologist,” in Reasons for Faith: Making the Case for the Christian Faith, edited by Norman L. Geisler and Chad V. Meister (Crossway, 2007) and “Covenant, Inheritance, and Typology,” co-authored with R. Fowler White, in By Faith Alone: Answering the Challenges to Justification, edited by Gary Johnson and Guy Waters (Crossway Books, 2007).