 Athanatos Christian Ministries, Inc, is a ministry committed to applying the Christian world view in creative contexts that range from Christian apologetics to education to literature and the arts and anything else it can imagine to edify the church.
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The third annual ACM Online Apologetics Conference is COMING UP April 19-21st, with Dale Ahlquist, president of the GK Chesterton Society keynoting. Dr. Gene Edward Veith returns. 18 total speakers! Learn more at: http://onlineapologeticsconference.com/- ACM author Joseph Keysor had an article published in the March/April 2012 edition of Touchstone Magazine. The featured article was: “From Modernity to Auschwitz: The Secular and Anti-Christian Origins of the Holocaust.” Congratulations, Joseph!
- New: Literary Apologetics Certificate Program directed by Dr. Holly Ordway! Learn more about ACM’s partnership with Dr. Ordway’s Hieropraxis.
- ACM’s Christian Writing Contest (short story and poetry categories) is currently accepting entries. 2012 Novel Contest is currently being judged; entries for the 2013 contest accepted in mid-Spring. Details.
- ACM’s online apologetics academy is having its winter session this February. Take Greek, The NT Gospels, Historical Jesus, Logic II, General Apologetics, etc.
- ACM is putting together its 3rd annual online apologetics conference, to be held April 19-21. Details.
- ACM hosted its first online Christian Writers Conference on August 18th. John Erickson, author of StoryCraft and the ‘Hank the Cow Dog’ series (7.5 million sold!) ‘keynoted.’ Archive info.
- ACM’s 2012 Christian Short Story/Poetry Writing Contest is taking submissions now. Deadline: March 19th, 2012.
- Dr. Holly Ordway has come on as a judge in the upcoming 2012 Christian Short Story/Poetry contest and her organization- Hieropraxis- is sponsoring some of the awards this year and following years, too.
- Shirl Tucker and Robert Abernathy won ACM’s first annual Christian novel contest. Shirl has since then entered into a contract to publish her winning story, Diamonds in the Dust, through ACM, now available!
- ACM’s literary apologetics journal: www.literaryapologetics.com
- Anthony was recently elected to be the president of Wisconsin Lutherans for Life.
- ACM initiated an apologetics book club. Add a classic work impacting Christian thought to your library, once a month.
From the Director:
Naturally, you want to know what Athanatos means. Athanatos is Greek for ‘immortality’ or, ‘not dying.’ If Christianity is true, that’s what we are: immortal. We are adventurers unleashed for glory, freed from the burden of sin and made fearless in the face of death. This ministry is the outgrowth of my apologetics ministries over the last decade.
No longer do I believe that the best, exclusive use of my time is to reach out to and contend with atheists. Today I believe that the Church needs to expand its vision and methods in order to keep people from falling away in the first place.
The United States is a mission field. There are some things that matter to people today (like stories, movies, etc) that we can use but have been needlessly abandoned to secularists. It is partly the aim of this ministry to re-capture and re-employ what was always properly within the domain of Christian thought.
That means that Athanatos Christian Ministries will strive to produce thoughtful educational programs that are consistent with historic, orthodox, creedal Christianity, but also seek to connect through literature, through music, through story, among other methods we might imagine. Athanatos Christian Ministries is a big picture organization. Anyone interested in joining us or learning more is invited to contact us to see just what can be done.
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Sincerely,Anthony HorvathExecutive DirectorAthanatos Christian Ministries |
