Lee Strobel presented Back to the Future of Evangelism
at the 2006 National Conference on Christian Apologetics at Southern
Evangelical Seminary and Bible College.
Atheist-turned-Christian Lee Strobel, the former award-winning
legal editor of The Chicago Tribune, is a New York Times
best-selling author of nearly twenty books and has been interviewed on numerous
national television programs, including ABC's 20/20, Fox News, and CNN.
Described by the Washington Post
as "one of the evangelical community's most popular apologists," Lee shared
the prestigious Charles "Kip" Jordon Christian Book of the Year award in 2005
for a curriculum he co-authored about the movie The Passion of the Christ.
He also has won awards for his books The
Case for Christ, The Case for Faith,
The Case for a Creator, and Inside the
Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary.
After a nearly two-year investigation of the evidence for Jesus,
Lee received Christ as his forgiver and leader in 1981. He joined the staff of
Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, IL, in 1987, and later became
a teaching pastor there. He joined Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake
Forest, CA, as a teaching pastor in 2000. He left Saddleback's staff in mid-2002
to focus on writing. He is also a contributing editor and columnist for Outreach
magazine.
Lee's other books include
God's Outrageous Claims, The Case for Christmas, The Case for Easter, What Jesus
Would Say, Exploring the Da Vinci Code
(co-authored with Garry Poole) and
Surviving a Spiritual Mismatch in Marriage,
which he wrote with his wife, Leslie. For two seasons, Lee was executive
producer and host of the weekly national network television program Faith
Under Fire.
Lee and Leslie have been married for 33 years and live in
Southern California.
