On Thursday, March 15, Elmhurst College will welcome Nancy Pearcey, a leading voice in evangelical Christianity and author of “Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity,” for a challenging and thought-provoking lecture titled “A Christian Worldview’s Challenge to Higher Education.”
“She’s very popular in evangelical circles,” said Elmhurst College associate professor A. Andrew Das, holder of the College’s Niebuhr Distinguished Chair of Theology and Religion. “She conveys the Christian and conservative worldview well to the general public.”

She will speak at 7:30 p.m. in Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel at Elmhurst College, 190 Prospect Ave., Elmhurst. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Pearcey’s book “Total Truth” won the 2005 Award of Merit from Christianity Today Book Awards. In it, Pearcey argues that in academia, empirical truth is given a great deal of focus while the ethereal and relativistic truths are devalued. Pearcey states that Christianity is truth, and that such a divide “marginalizes” conservative Christianity.
Pearcey studied Christian worldview under Francis Schaeffer at L’Abri Fellowship and later was founding editor of BreakPoint Radio. She is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and editor-at-large of the Pearcey Report Web site. A native of Lombard, she earned her master’s in biblical studies from the Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis and then pursued further graduate work in history of philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto.
Support for this lecture is provided by Gil Pollack. For more information call (630) 617-3033.