Nick Pitts

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Director for Cultural Engagement — Denison Forum on Truth and Culture

J. Nick Pitts serves as the director of cultural engagement at the Denison Forum on Truth and Culture. He came to the Denison Forum in 2014 after a fateful conversation with its founder, Dr. Jim Denison. Pitts, a Ph.D. candidate at Dallas Baptist University (DBU), had spent the summer studying at Oxford with other students and faculty including Denison, a visiting professor. He contributes to the Forum in the areas of geopolitics and popular culture, as well as serving as the editor of the Daily Briefing. He continues work on his doctorate and serves as an adjunct professor at DBU, teaching a master’s level course in the philosophy of leadership. His Ph.D. research centers upon John F. Kennedy’s engagement of the religious community in the 1960 presidential campaign. He presented a paper on the topic at Calvin College’s 2015 symposium on religion and public life. He is an editor at large for The Liberty Project, an online magazine, and his op-eds have been published by The Philadelphia Inquirer, Religion News Service and Townhall.com. He received a bachelor’s degree in 2007 from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, and a master’s degree in 2009 from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He served as the Director of College Ministry at First Baptist Church Arlington (Texas) for five years.

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Millennials Reject God but Feel Entitled to Heaven

Americans are five times less likely to pray now as compared to the early 1980's, and twice as many said they do not believe in God. So concludes the...

Featured on: Wednesday, January 4, 2017

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Too Quick to Protest, Too Millennial to Vote

In this political season, Colin Kaepernick has been the prototypical millennial. The San Francisco 49ers quarterback has made headlines less for his s...

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Kerby Anderson

Street Smarts

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Kerby Anderson

Overview Effect

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