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Alan Wisdom

Alan Wisdom is a freelance writer exploring issues of Christian witness in U.S. and global society. He serves as an adjunct fellow with the Institute on Religion & Democracy.

Wisdom was on the IRD staff from August 1985 to July 2011 as a research assistant, research associate, vice president, and interim president. He also edited the IRD’s quarterly Faith & Freedom and directed its Presbyterian Action program. He has attended every Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly since 1988, seeking a PCUSA social witness that is more closely aligned with biblical teachings and the convictions of church members. Wisdom has written for the IRD and other publications on topics ranging from crises in Latin America and the Middle East to marriage in Christian teaching and social history, U.S. immigration policy, the National and World Councils of Churches, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the future of Christian ecumenism.

Wisdom is a deacon and elder at Georgetown Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C.—the congregation in which he was baptized and grew up. Before coming to the IRD, he taught high school English and Spanish in Florida. He received his B.A. in history, English, and Spanish from Rice University in Houston, Texas, in 1979. He then did two years of graduate work in history at Princeton University. In 1983 he received a second B.A., in education, from the University of Maryland.

Wisdom and his wife, Esther, live in Falls Church, Va., with their two children, Esther Lynne and Daniel.

 

Adjunct Fellows

 

Dr. E. Calvin Beisner

E. Calvin Beisner is a founder of and the national spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance for Environmental Stewardship (formerly called the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance) and among the founding leaders of Holy Trinity Presbyterian Church in Broward County, Florida. He is a former associate professor (2000-2007)of historical theology and social ethics at Knox Theological Seminary,where he taught church history, ethics, apologetics, logic, systematic theology, and non-Christian religions. Before Knox he taught for eight years at Covenant College, as associate professor of interdisciplinary studies. He is also an adjunct fellow of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty; an adjunct scholar of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow; and a member of the advisory board of the Templeton Freedom Awards program of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. 

 

 

Mt. Nebo Paper: What Is the Most Important Environmental Task Facing American Christians Today?

  

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