Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard directs the Center for Faith and Inquiry and is Professor of History at
Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. He completed his MA (1992) and Ph.D. (1996) at the
University of Virginia, concentrating in modern European intellectual and religious history. He is founding director of
Gordon College's honors program, the Jerusalem and Athens Forum, a one-year, great-books course of study in the history of
Christian thought and literature. He served as principal grant writer and project director of a multimillion-dollar project funded by the
Lilly Endowment, entitled "Critical Loyalty: Christian Vocation at Gordon College."