Michael Hardin is an independent scholar residing in Pennsylvania. He has a master's from North Park Seminary in Chicago and is a PhD candidate at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia, where his thesis is on Religion and Revelation in Karl Barth and Rene Girard. Author of ten books and a score of peer reviewed articles, Michael is a popular teacher with a broad global audience. He is a singer-songwriter who has studied wilderness survival with Tom Brown Jr. for over seventeen years. Michael is known as The Dude of Theology and he carries this moniker proudly! Chris Tilling is Senior Lecturer in New Testament at St. Mellitus College