Ƶ is proud to announce the return of the Author Celebration on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. The event will highlight the written works of HCU faculty and staff that have been published since the last Author Celebration was held in 2024.
The Author Celebration will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the MD Anderson Student Center on the HCU campus and is free and open to the public. Guests can meet the authors in person, purchase their books and get books signed.
Featured authors represent a diverse set of fields that include theology, education, medicine, poetry, children’s fiction, literary assessment, technology, and more.
Represented HCU authors will include:
- Katie Alaniz, Associate Professor of Education
- “” (Christian Scholar’s Review)
- Matthew Boyleston, Professor of English and Writing
- “Keeping the Kalendar: Poems for the Christian Year” (Commissioned by Riverway at St. Martins Episcopal Church, Houston, TX. To be read as part of liturgical services for Michaelmas, Sept. 29, 2024; All Souls Day, Nov. 2 2024; First Sunday of Advent, Dec. 1, 2025; Epiphany, Jan. 6, 2025; Ash Wednesday, Mar. 5, 2025; and Ascension Day, May 29, 2025.)
- Nancy Brownlee, Assistant Professor of Nursing
- (Reviewer)
- David Davis, Professor of History
- Timothy Ewest, Professor of Management
- Austin Freeman, Assistant Professor of Apologetics
- Louis Markos, Professor of English
- Jason Maston, Professor of Theology; Associate Dean, School of Christian Thought
- Paul Sloan, Associate Professor of Early Christianity
- Felisi Sorgwe, Associate Professor of Theology
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- Joel Stanulonis, Assistant Professor of Arts
- Phillip Tallon, Associate Professor of Theology; Dean, School of Christian Thought
- “Evil and the Cosmic Dance: C. S. Lewis and Beauty’s Place in Theology” and “Addison’s Walk: A Mythic Conversation” (with Jerry Walls, Reno Lauro, and Michael Ward) (chapters in )
- Michael Ward, Professor of Apologetics
- “Selling the Well and the Wood: That Hideous Strength and the Abolition of Matrimony” (chapter in )