Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank.” He is a health policy expert and weekly contributor at Forbes.com. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Texas Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Dr. Matthews is a past president of the Health Economics Roundtable for the National Association for Business Economics, the largest trade association of business economists. Dr. Matthews also served for 10 years as the medical ethicist for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board for Human Experimentation, and has contributed chapters to several books, including Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate and The 21st Century Health Care Leader and, in 2009, Stop Paying the Crooks (on Medicare fraud).

He has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Barron’s, USA Today, Forbes magazine and the Washington Times. He was an award-winning political analyst for the USA Radio Network.

Dr. Matthews received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas.

Jerry is the author/co-author of 29 books, including 17 with Dr. D. James Kennedy (e.g., What If Jesus Had Never Been Born?). The book with Dr. Peter Lillback (president of Westminster Theological Seminary) on the Christianity of our first president became a national bestseller, George Washington’s Sacred Fire. www.jerrynewcombe.com

Jerry does a radio program, which is generally 15 minutes by phone with a Christian leader on a particular issue. Guests have included Dinesh D’Souza, Michelle Malkin, Ben Kinchlow, Joni, Ted Baehr, Del Tackett, Gary Bauer, David Limbaugh, Jim DeMint, etc. (www.jerrynewcombe.com or www.gracenetradio.com)

Jerry was married in Norway, in the home church of his wife, Kirsti, whom he met in the registration line at Wheaton Grad School 2 years earlier. Their wedding vows were bilingual: “Ja, I do.” 38 years later, they are blessed with two children, two grandchildren with another on the way.

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