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Adam is Director of Academics and Scholar in Residence at 1517. He earned his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2006 and served as Professor of History, Dean, and Assistant Provost in the Concordia University System for nearly two decades.
The Thinking Fellows examine a common question about the Christian life and
Contemporary Christianity often ignores or understates the realities and
What does it mean for Paul to claim that if Christ has not been raised, our
This is an excerpt from the first chapter of A Reasoned Defense of the Faith by Adam Francisco (1517 Publishing, 2026), pgs 1-3.
The reasoning was always the same. The gods were angry. The gods were hungry. The gods required payment.
Christ did not merely urge humanity to be kind. He embodied perfect kindness by giving his life for those who neither earned nor expected such a gift.
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