Meet Our Speakers 

Abd Al-Fadi is an Islamic studies scholar, media analyst, and former Muslim whose work focuses on Islamic theology, political Islam, and Middle Eastern religious dynamics.

​A native of Saudi Arabia, he is the founder and CEO of CIRA International, a training and research organization that has equipped churches, ministries, and institutional leaders worldwide on Islamic ideology, apologetics, and Muslim-Christian engagement.
Al-Fadi serves as an adjunct professor of Islamic Studies and is a frequent speaker, trainer, and media commentator on Islam, Middle East affairs, and Islamic extremism. He hosts the radio podcast Let Us Reason and has produced Arabic-language television programs broadcast across the Middle East. His work includes Qur’anic and biblical textual analysis, Islamic doctrinal critique, and training initiatives for policymakers and ministry leaders.
He holds an M.Div. in Biblical Communication and a master’s degree in engineering, and is a PhD candidate in Early Islamic Studies at the Melbourne School of Theology, specializing in early Qur’anic manuscripts.

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James Baber has been a Christian since 1990. In 1993 he began a ministry outreach and study of Jehovah's Witnesses. By 1997, his study and outreach expanded to include many other groups such as Seventh-day Adventists, Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints, Church of Christ, Islam, Christadelphians, Children of God, etc. He continues his study of non-Christian religions and currently runs a YouTube channel dedicated to exposing Seventh-day Adventism. He possesses an M.A. in Business and an M.A. in Humanities. His thesis topic was “A Historical View and Analysis of English Qur’ans from 1649 to 2005.” He is currently an adjunct college business professor and a university continuing education instructor.

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Dr. Daniel Brubaker received his doctorate from Rice (Houston) in 2014 for his dissertation “Intentional Changes in Qurʾān Manuscripts.” He continued his Quran manuscript research since, with further global travels to study and photograph manuscripts in St. Petersburg, Doha, Kuwait, Tashkent, and elsewhere. His Quran manuscript change database became a basis for Qurʾan Gateway, a project he co-founded and that became an official e-resource for students and faculty at Oxford, Cambridge, Notre Dame, and Hebrew University. His first book, Corrections in Early Qurʾān Manuscripts: Twenty Examples, was published in 2019 and quickly drew attention around the world. He has contributed to many publications, including The Quran with Christian Commentary, and three volumes in the German Inârah series. In 2020, Dr. Brubaker began the YouTube channel Variant Quran as a way of introducing his Quran research to a wider audience. 

Dr. Brubaker’s current projects include an edition of an early variant Quran fragment for Brill’s Documenta Coranica series, an update of the Qurʾan Gateway website, and a new online resource called Quranalytic. He is preparing his major academic book, a multi-volume work containing most of his Quran manuscript correction research to date. Dr. Brubaker’s ongoing efforts are made possible in part by donors; for more information or to become a partner, go to www.danielbrubaker.com.

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Pastor Clinton Bauman is an inter-cultural minister who has served globally for more than twenty years on three continents, including 6 years in India. He has a Masters degree in intercultural communication and world religions. He will be speaking on engaging in conversations with Muslims and how to communicate skillfully with people who are culturally different.  ​

Dr. Tony Costa earned a B.A. and M.A. in biblical studies from the University of Toronto and earned his Ph.D in New Testament and Theology from Radboud University in the Netherlands. He teaches as an Instructor with the University of Toronto in the areas of Gospel Studies, Apocalyptic Texts and the Book of Revelation, and Archaeology of the Bible and the Ancient Near East. He is the author of Worship and the Risen Jesus in the Pauline Letters and Early Christian Creeds and Hymns and his most recent book No King but Christ: The Collapse and Bankruptcy of Secular Worldviews. Tony is also an ordained Minister of the Gospel and is the pastor of Park Lawn Baptist Church in Toronto. He is happily married, has 3 children, and 2 grandchildren, and lives in Toronto, Canada.

For more info go to: ​https://www.freewebs.com/tonycosta/

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Dr. Edward Dalcour is the Founder and Director of the Department of Christian Defense, a Christian apologetic ministry based in Los Angeles, CA, since 1999. He serves as Tutor of NT Theology at Greenwich School of Theology in London and is a Faculty member at Grace Bible University in Morgan Hill, CA, and he is professor of Theology at Bible Harvest University (Los Angeles, CA). He holds a Master in Apologetics and a Ph.D. in Theology from North-West University. Dr. Dalcour is a theological contributor to various theological journals and publications and has written numerous counter-cult apologetic tracts and pamphlets. 

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Rev. Samuel Green is married and has five adult children. He became a Christian while at university and has been involved in various Christian ministries. Since 1999 he has worked with the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students (AFES) as a campus evangelist and Islamic Engagement Director.

He is one of the founding authors of the Answering Islam website and the Anglican Interfaith Chaplain. Engaging with Islam is one of Samuel’s main interests and he does this through writing, training, evangelism, lectures and debates. He is the author of Where to start with Islam. Samuel has degrees in theology and chemical engineering. 

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Rev. Anthony Rogers received an AA degree in Christian Thought from Christ College in Lynchburg, Virginia and graduated with a divinity degree from Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
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He is an ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church of America and serves as the regional director for Metanoia Prison Ministries in South Carolina. He has published articles in numerous theological journals, is a co-author of the book Our God is Triune, and runs a YouTube channel under his name--Anthony Rogers. 

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VOCAB MALONE holds a Master’s from Phoenix Seminary and engaged in post-grad work at Talbot (La Mirada, CA). Vocab’s ministry focus is urban contextualized apologetics. He hosts a livestream show on YouTube, The Street Apologist. Vocab seeks to model a balance between friendly, conversational evangelism and bold, polemical apologetics.
Vocab has participated in many public debates and dialogues with advocates of a variety of worldviews, such as Muslims, Egyptian spiritualists, and especially Hebrew Israelites. He’s the author of a book on Hebrew Israelism, a contributing author to Our God is Triune: Essays in Biblical Theology, and his most recent work, Street-Level Apologetics.
Vocab resides in downtown Phoenix, Arizona.

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Luis Carlos Reyes is an evangelical Trinitarian and resides in Los Angeles, California (USA). He has pursued studies in Greek and linguistics (under Dr. David Alan Black), Philosophy with a specialization in Logic, and Christian Apologetics (under Craig Hawkins and many others) at Simon Greenleaf University, Anaheim Ca., (USA), where he received a certificate of study in Christian Apologetics (1995).
He has studied the field of Relevance Theory in inferential lexical-pragmatics (online course provided by University College London), where he also received a certificate of study in Relance Theory. He has participated in new research related to Relevance Theory and its specific application in biblical interpretation and has presented several academic theses on the subject at international symposiums organized by the Society of Biblical Literature.
He has written academic articles on Greek exegesis and discourse analysis from the perspective of textual linguistics, such as “The Structure and Rhetoric of Colossians 1:15–20”, published in the journal Filología Neotestamentaria (12 [1999] 139–154), and he has been engaged in apologetics for more than thirty-five years.
He is also the author of The Influence of Gnosticism on Some Modern Cults: A Critical-Comparative Study Based on the La Luz del Mundo Sect (CLIE, 2000) (Spanish only); and has published debates in book form in Spanish against Oneness Pentecostal doctrine, including “Online Debate on John 1:1” (PDF, 2011) and Is Jesus the Person of the Son of God After the Incarnation? (Barker Books, 2023). Currently writing a book on the problem of the person of the Son of God for Oneness Pentecostals (in English).
He is involved in an interdenominational apologetics ministry for the Hispanic world that specializes in combating sects and aberrant doctrines within Christianity. He has also delivered numerous lectures on a wide range of topics around the world and is the owner of the apologetics YouTube channel: Mopar440HP (please subscribe).

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Daniel Scot was born and educated in Pakistan. He excelled as a student and in time became a Mathematics Professor in University Colleges in Pakistan. He has been involved in sharing his faith with Muslims since 1965 when he was in junior high school.

It was the active sharing of his faith that resulted in him being the first Christian to be charged under Pakistan’s infamous Blasphemy Law (295C) in September 1986. Daniel was delivered from the life-threatening situation that he found himself in and was able to flee Pakistan, followed by his family two and half years later. 

​In Australia, Daniel saw the need for inter-faith dialogue to eradicate misunderstandings between Christians and Muslims. Since that time Daniel has devoted himself to religious matters - teaching Christians about Islam and Muslims about Christianity & Islam (many Muslims know very little about what really the Qur’an and Hadith teach).

Daniel Scot is the co-directors of Ibrahim Ministries International Inc. (IMI). Ibrahim is the name of Abraham from the Bible, a name that Jews, Christians, and Muslims consider to be pivotal in their respective religions. Daniel has been involved in full-time research and teaching on Islam since 1994 throughout Africa, Australia, America, Asia, and Europe (over fifty nations).  He strongly believes that people ought to live out their faith with a clear understanding of what their faith teaches. 

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Matt Slick​ is the founder and president of CARM, the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry, carm.org.  Matt was raised in a nominally Christian home. He got involved in the occult at an early age but met Jesus when he was 17.  He served as an assistant pastor  and later in anther church under the Presbyterian Church of America as a senior pastor in southern California.

Matt graduated from Christ College Irvine (Lutheran, LCMS) in Irvine, CA, in 1987 with a Bachelor’s in Social Science. In 1991, he earned his Master of Divinity from Westminster Theological Seminary (Presbyterian) in Escondido, CA.
Matt started CARM in 1995 to answer critics’ questions and to make it easy to provide answers to more than one person at a time in chat rooms and the early bulletin board systems. Matt has written numerous books and has been involved in many formal debates in person and online.

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Dr. Jay Smith is the International director of the Pfander Centre for Apologetics in London, England.

He has been working with Muslims for over 40 years, also serving with the Brethren In Christ World Missions, the last 25 in London, England. Most of his time he spends travelling to numerous countries to teach Christian/Muslim Apologetics and Polemics, much of which he has learned from weekly forays to the world famous Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, London.

He is a visiting lecturer for the Oakhill College in London, the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, and the Wycliffe Hall, in Oxford. He has taught apologetics at various religious schools and seminaries, including Moorland Bible College in Bournemouth, England, the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, USA, The Veritas Seminary in California, the Tyndale Seminary in Toronto, Canada, the Ethiopian Graduate Theological Seminary in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as well as the Ichthus Networkers Program in SE London, and the St. Helens Proclamation Trust.  Since 2001, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), have used him to teach Islamics in the US, and Europe. Dr. Smith has also participated in over 90 dialogues and debates with Muslims.

Jay has two masters’ degrees in divinity (Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary) and Islamics (Fuller Seminary), and has a PhD in apologetics and polemics from the Melbourne School of Theology, Australia, under the supervision of Dr Peter Riddell.

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Sister Hatun Tash lived in a Muslim country for 27 years but now lives in the UK. She studied various topics at university including bank management and economy, law (basic human rights), maths and physics engineering, and philosophy. She also studied apologetics at the Oxford Centre for Apologetics in Oxford, England. Hatun is the director of DCCI Ministries. She lives an evangelist lifestyle and has a big burden to share the Gospel and to see the church equipped. Besides engaging with Muslims at Speakers’ Corner and in mosques every week, she is involved in Christian-Muslim discussions, debates, and Bible studies, while also teaching and training Christians to be better witnesses for Christ.

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​Laura Zee is a Christian apologist, writer, and speaker at An Affair with Reason. She served as Senior Writer and Islam Ministry Specialist for Women in Apologetics from 2020-2025. She has been a speaker with Ministry to Muslims since 2023, training and equipping believers in California, North Carolina, and New Jersey. Since graduating from Duke University in 1998 and from Denver Seminary in 2004, she has ministered in over thirty countries on five continents, including Afghanistan, Egypt, Jordan, Burundi, and India. Laura is currently working on her Doctor of Ministry in Public Theology at Birmingham Theological Seminary. Her 20-lesson online course, Islam Foundations, is available at womeninapologetics.com. And her blog, past interviews, and speaking request form can be found at her website, AnAffairWithReason.com​

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Dr. David Wood is a Christian apologist who has partnered with M2M for many years. He is also the Director and co-founder of Acts 17 Apologetics.  Dr. Wood has participated in over 50 public debates with Muslims and atheists, usually in a public hall or in front of a university audience. A former atheist, David became a Christian after examining the historical evidence for Jesus’ resurrection. He is a member of the Society of Christian Philosophers and the Evangelical Philosophical Society.

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Previous Years

Our Team: 

Greg Maxwell received his B.S. from Cal State Long Beach in 1985 then went on to study at Biola University, where he earned his M.A. in Christian Apologetics. Greg is currently an Apologist for “Ministry to Muslims” where he engages with Muslims in Mosque outreach and on-line where he has shared the Gospel of Christ for the past 27 years. Greg has traveled around the country witnessing to Jehovah's Witnesses, Cults and Mormon’s for over 40 years. More recently Greg was a featured guest on KKLA regarding Muslims and how to share the Gospel.  Greg’s devotion is to obey the Great Commission and share the love of Christ with those who are lost, deceived and in error. Greg also has numerous videos on Youtube and Facebook called “On the Rhode with Jesus” featuring Greg Maxwell that cover topics dealing with the New Age, Cults, Occult and Islam.

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David Menkel
Bachelors in Biblical Studies Biola University, Masters in Theology from Talbot Seminary. Was a volunteer for the Voice of the Martyrs, and serves as an Elder at Calvary Chapel.

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Tony Yu has been doing street evangelism since 2009.  As a Christian, he had always gravitated toward finding objective reasons for believing the Christian faith.  After reading the book, One Thing You Can't Do in Heaven by Mark Cahill, his interest in apologetics blossomed.  In His desire to defend the Christian faith, he eventually studied the apologetics and polemics of Islam.  He believes every Christian has a responsibility to share the Gospel at whatever level he is able.  He loves to travel to different churches to teach evangelism and apologetics.  He has been to multiple cities in Colombia, Ghana West Africa, London UK and Paris France on missions trips and to teach evangelism at various churches.  He is passionate about helping the Church to evangelize and he will travel to yours upon request.

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IN REMEMBRANCE OF:

Reverend Jeffrey Kran is a Jewish believer who was born in Chicago in 1962 and raised by secular Jewish parents. However, he was greatly influenced by his Orthodox Jewish grandfather who lived with them for some years and made sure that Jeff had the basis of a Jewish education.

Jeff came to faith in 1982 through a study of the evidence for the truth of Scripture – particularly Messianic prophecy. Since then, he has been active in Bible teaching, conference speaking and congregation planting.
Jeff has a deep and long-standing burden for his Jewish people and has lectured and held open forums on college campuses and taught workshops on Jewish theological objections to the Gospel.

​Jeff joined Chosen People Ministries’ staff full time in 2006. He and his wife, Marlene, have a vision for evangelism and to work with churches to equip believers to bring Jewish people to Messiah. The Krans have five children.

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Pastor Wally Magdangal was the pastor of an underground house church in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. His church grew to be among the largest in Saudi Arabia. Due to the impact he was having on the Muslim world, he became the most wanted person by the religious authorities in Saudi Arabia. After many attempts, Pastor Wally was captured and placed in prison, where he was tortured because of his faith. In the midst of horrendous beatings and circumstances, God continually showed His love and faithfulness to His servant. After experiencing the humiliation of the Supreme Court, he was sentenced to death by hanging on Christmas Day, 1992. This remarkable testimony is a witness of God’s provision and delivering power for a man whose only desire was to bring the Good News of God’s love to one of the least reached nations in the world. ​

Dr. Robert A. Morey is the author of over 60 books, some of which have been translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, Polish, and Finnish. He is listed in The International Authors and Writers Who’s Who and Contemporary Authors. Many of Dr. Morey’s books are also available in electronic library format from Logos Bible Software.

He earned a B.A. from Covenant College, an MDiv. and DMin. from Westminster Seminary, a PhD. from Louisiana Baptist University and an honorary D.D. from Faith Theological Seminary. Dr. Morey went to be with the Lord on January 5, 2019​

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Dr. Anis Shorrosh, born in Nazareth, he became a refugee in Jordan during the Arab-Israeli War, and later came to the United States with the help of missionaries. 

​He received two degrees from Baptist seminaries, including a doctorate. Dr. Shorrosh graduated from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in 1959 and later received a Doctorate of Ministries from Luther Rice Seminary and a Doctorate of Philosophy from Oxford Graduate School. Dr. Shorrosh served as a pastor and evangelist in the Middle East from 1959 to 1966.

Dr. Shorrosh's 1988 book Islam Revealed presents "armed Jihad and violence as central to Islam". In all, Dr. Shorrosh's authored ten books, including Tas well The Liberated Palestinian, The True Furqan; Jesus, Prophecy, and The Middle East; and Islam; A Threat or A Challenge. Dr. Shorrosh was the translator of The True Furqan, which he said was intended to challenge the Quran. Dr. Shorrosh translated the book to English from  Arabic.

In September 1995, Shorrosh was guest lecturer at NCI Bible College, Auckland, New Zealand. In the years 2004–05, he held a tour around the world, giving lectures and holding debates. Dr. Shorrosh, age 85, passed away peacefully on May 13, 2018 

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Dr. Nabeel Asif Qureshi, was a Pakistani-American evangelical  Christian apologist. Raised by a devout Ahmadi family, Qureshi converted to Christianity from Ahmadiyya Islam as a university student following several years of debate with a Christian friend.
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After earning his doctorate in medicine from Eastern Virginia Medical School, Qureshi subsequently completed a M.A. in religion at Duke University and an MPhil in Judaism and Christianity at the University of Oxford. Qureshi authored three books: Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity, Answering Jihad: A Better Way Forward, and No God But One—Allah or Jesus. 

In August 2016, Qureshi announced that he had been diagnosed with stage IV stomach cancer. After a year of treatment, he went to be with the Lord on September 16, 2017.

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