Coming attractions

I’ll be interviewing next week at Patrick Henry College five interesting persons, including America’s most prolific (I think) Christian author, the nation’s best football columnist, and the founder of the gay new source Q Syndicate, who is now an Orthodox Jew.

You can watch the hour-long, live webcasts of the interviews at the Patrick Henry website, and you can tweet questions to @patrickhenrycol that will be relayed to the interviewees.

A few specifics: On Monday at 12:40 p.m. EST, I’ll question Angela Hunt, the best-selling and prize-winning author of more than 125 works with 400 million readers worldwide. She’ll give advice on how to be a better writer and get books published.

Gregg Easterbrook will be taking snaps on Tuesday at 12:20 p.m. EST. He writes the hugely popular Tuesday Morning Quarterback column at ESPN.com and is the author of The King of Sports, which is the best football book I’ve read. Easterbrook has also written books on theology and American society.

Karen Swallow Prior will be my guest on Wednesday at 12:40 p.m. EST. She’s the author of a just-published biography, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist. We’ll learn about More, an 18th and 19th century Christian feminist and friend of William Wilberforce.

On Thursday at 12:20 p.m. EST, I’ll interview David Benkof, the founder and former vice president of Q Syndicate. Benkof actively lived the homosexual lifestyle until 2003, and since then has identified as “Orthodox, celibate, and gay.”

The last interviewee of the week, on Friday at 12:40 p.m. EST, is Lon Solomon, senior pastor of McLean Bible Church in Northern Virginia. A drug user and dealer in college before Christ saved him, he was instrumental in starting Jill’s House, a respite center for parents whose children require constant care, as does Solomon’s daughter Jill.

We’ll publish and play excerpts of these interviews in WORLD magazine and on WORLD Radio in December and early 2015.