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Louis Markos, PhD

Louis Markos, PhD

Professor of English and Scholar in Residence — Houston Baptist University

Louis Markos (PhD, University of Michigan), Professor of English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University, holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities. He speaks widely on ancient Greece and Rome, Lewis and Tolkien, and apologetics and classical education. His 18 books include From Achilles to Christ, On the Shoulders of Hobbits, Apologetics for the 21st Century, Worldview Guides to the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid, and two children’s novels, The Dreaming Stone and In the Shadow of Troy, in which his kids become part of Greek mythology and the epics of Homer.

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What Plato Got Right and Wrong

From the point of view of orthodox Christianity, the essential flaw in the Platonic system is its incessant privileging of the spiritual over the phys...

Featured on: Thursday, June 2, 2022

From Plato to Christ: How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith

Quite a bit, it turns out. In ways that might surprise us, Christians throughout the history of the church and even today have inherited aspects of th...

Featured on: Wednesday, January 26, 2022

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Kerby Anderson

High and Low

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June 8, 2026
Kerby Anderson

Faith-Affirming Findings

Biblical archaeology seems to be going through a “golden age of apologetics.” One illustration is the fact that over the last two months I have had the privilege of interviewing three authors on their...

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Kerby Anderson

Historical Ignorance

Years ago, a doctor wrote an article entitled, “What’s Keeping David McCullough from Sleeping?” This noted historian and award-winning author had trouble sleeping because he was worrying about what wa...

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