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Louis Markos, PhD

Louis Markos, PhD

Professor of English and Scholar in Residence — Houston Baptist University

Louis Markos (PhD, University of Michigan), Professor of English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University, holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities. He speaks widely on ancient Greece and Rome, Lewis and Tolkien, and apologetics and classical education. His 18 books include From Achilles to Christ, On the Shoulders of Hobbits, Apologetics for the 21st Century, Worldview Guides to the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid, and two children’s novels, The Dreaming Stone and In the Shadow of Troy, in which his kids become part of Greek mythology and the epics of Homer.

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What Plato Got Right and Wrong

From the point of view of orthodox Christianity, the essential flaw in the Platonic system is its incessant privileging of the spiritual over the phys...

Featured on: Thursday, June 2, 2022

From Plato to Christ: How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith

Quite a bit, it turns out. In ways that might surprise us, Christians throughout the history of the church and even today have inherited aspects of th...

Featured on: Wednesday, January 26, 2022

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May 29, 2026
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Stunning Reversal

Penna Dexter Two years ago, I complained that: “Radical transgender directives just keep coming from the executive branch of the federal government.” There’s been a stunning reversal. States fought ba...

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May 29, 2026
Kerby Anderson

TV Dinners to Smartphones

Kerby Anderson Columnist Bob Greene noticed a connection between TV Dinners and smartphones. In fact, he says the 1950s meal was a gateway drug for screen addiction. He believes that our zombie-like a...

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May 28, 2026
Kerby Anderson

Political Fantasy

Kerby Anderson A recent poll of Americans conducted by NewsGuard and YouGov is disturbing on its face. It is even more concerning the deeper you delve into the data. The topline comment is that a siza...

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