HCU to Host Seventh Annual Author Celebration

Houston Christian University is proud to announce the return of the Author Celebration on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025.  The event will highlight the written works of HCU faculty and staff that have been published since the last Author Celebration was held in 2024.

The Author Celebration will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the MD Anderson Student Center on the HCU campus and is free and open to the public.  Guests can meet the authors in person, purchase their books and get books signed.

Featured authors represent a diverse set of fields that include theology, education, medicine, poetry, children’s fiction, literary assessment, technology, and more.

Represented HCU authors will include:

• Katie Alaniz, Associate Professor of Education
  • A Learning Community Built on Strengths: Inspiring Educators to Positively Impact Student Lives
  • “Review of Everyday Christian Teaching: A Guide to Practicing Faith in the Classroom” (Christian Scholar’s Review)
• Matthew Boyleston, Professor of English and Writing
  • “Keeping the Kalendar: Poems for the Christian Year” (Commissioned by Riverway at St. Martins Episcopal Church, Houston, TX. To be read as part of liturgical services for Michaelmas, Sept. 29, 2024; All Souls Day, Nov. 2 2024; First Sunday of Advent, Dec. 1, 2025; Epiphany, Jan. 6, 2025; Ash Wednesday, Mar. 5, 2025; and Ascension Day, May 29, 2025.)
• Nancy Brownlee, Assistant Professor of Nursing
  • Core Curriculum for Urologic Nursing (Reviewer)
• David Davis, Professor of History
  • The Oxford Handbook of the Bible & the Reformation
• Timothy Ewest, Professor of Management
  • Meaningful Work in a Post-Covid Age: The Impact of New Technologies
• Austin Freeman, Assistant Professor of Apologetics
  • Tolkien among the Theologians
• Louis Markos, Professor of English
  • Passing the Torch: An Apology for Classical Christian Education
  • From Aristotle to Christ: How Aristotelian Thought Clarified the Christian Faith
  • Four Modern Greek Heroes: Literary Sketches of a Greek-American Family
  • The Gates of Freedom
  • Worshipping an Unknown God: Finding Christ in the Pagan Classics
  • My Life in Film: How the Movies Shaped My Soul
• Jason Maston, Professor of Theology; Associate Dean, School of Christian Thought
  • Five Views on the Gospel
• Paul Sloan, Associate Professor of Early Christianity
  • Jesus and the Law of Moses: The Gospels and the Restoration of Israel within First-Century Judaism
• Felisi Sorgwe, Associate Professor of Theology
  • “Guest Editorial: The value of Texas Baptists’ Intercultural Ministries” (Baptist Standard)
  • “Equip: Resources on the Book of Jonah” (Baptist Standard)
  • “Equip: Resources on the Book of Lamentations” (Baptist Standard)
• Joel Stanulonis, Assistant Professor of Arts
  • Wiggy Widget’s Marvelous Machines: Book 1
• Phillip Tallon, Associate Professor of Theology; Dean, School of Christian Thought
  • “Evil and the Cosmic Dance: C. S. Lewis and Beauty’s Place in Theology” and “Addison’s Walk: A Mythic Conversation” (with Jerry Walls, Reno Lauro, and Michael Ward) (chapters in S. Lewis as Philosopher (3rd edition))
• Michael Ward, Professor of Apologetics
  • “Selling the Well and the Wood: That Hideous Strength and the Abolition of Matrimony” (chapter in Life on the Silent Planet: Essays on Christian Living from C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy)