The NYT guest author:
“Stephen Asma
Professor
Biography
Stephen T. Asma is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, where he is also Senior Fellow of the Research Group in Mind, Science and Culture.
Asma is the author of ten books, including The Evolution of Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2017), The Emotional Mind: Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition with Rami Gabriel (Harvard University Press, forthcoming), On Monsters: an Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears (Oxford University Press), and The Gods Drink Whiskey (HarperOne).
He writes regularly for the New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Skeptic magazine.He has also written for the Sunday Times, the Chicago Tribune, Aeon magazine, Big Think, and many others.”
“Paul is a writer and Events Manager at the CMI-US office. Paul grew up in a Christian home, and was converted to Christ at a young age”
Convert from what?