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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is one of the world’s leading relationship and spirituality experts; his books have been translated into 17 languages and he lectures and makes TV and radio appearances all over the world. He served as host of the award-winning national TV show Shalom in the Home on TLC, The Shmuley Show on 77 WABC in NYC, the most listened-to radio station in America, and The Rabbi Shmuley Show on the Oprah and Friends Radio Network. He is also the international best-selling author of 23 books, including most recently, Renewal: A Guide to the Values-Filled Life and Ten Conversations You Need to Have with Your Children. His book Kosher Sex was an international blockbuster and is widely regarded as one of the most important relationship books of the past two decades. His recent books on the American family, Parenting With Fire and Ten Conversations You Need to Have With Your Children were both launched on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Rabbi Boteach is also the founder of This World: The Jewish Values Network, an organization which aims to bring Jewish values to mainstream American culture via the media, politics, and the arts. He has been profiled in many of the world’s leading publications, including Time Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times and The Washington Post. Rabbi Shmuley is the recipient of the highly prestigious Preacher of the Year Award from The London Times and received the American Jewish Press Association’s Highest Award for Excellence in Commentary. A highly sought-after television and radio guest, Rabbi Shmuley served as Rabbi at Oxford University in England for 11 years.
Dr. Michael Brown
He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from New York University and has served as a visiting or adjunct professor at Southern Evangelical Seminary, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary (Charlotte), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Fuller Theological Seminary, Denver Theological Seminary, the King’s Seminary, and Regent University School of Divinity, and he has contributed numerous articles to scholarly publications, including the Oxford Dictionary of Jewish Religion and the Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament.
Dr. Brown is the author of more than 35 books, including, Our Hands Are Stained with Blood: The Tragic Story of the “Church” and the Jewish People, which has been translated into more than twelve languages, the highly-acclaimed five-volume series, Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus, commentaries on Jeremiah and Job, and several books on revival and Jesus revolution. His newest books are The Power of Music: God’s Call to Change the World One Song at a Time; Not Afraid of the Antichrist: Why We Don’t Believe in a Pre-Trib Rapture (with Craig Keener), and Jezebel’s War with America: The Plot to Destroy Our Country and What We Can Do to Turn the Tide.
Host of the nationally syndicated radio broadcast, Line of Fire, as well as TV shows on NRB TV, GOD TV, and METV, Dr. Brown brings a message of repentance, revival and cultural revolution, and he is widely considered to be the world’s foremost Messianic Jewish apologist.
MODERATOR
Dr. Gregg Hagg, Ph.D
Biola University, Talbot School of Theology