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Betsy Howard, Ph.D.

B.A., Hillsdale College

M.A. (English), University of St. Thomas

Ph.D. (ABD), University of Minnesota


Exploring Aslan’s Country: PDF Download

The Chronicles of Narnia are some of the most beloved children’s books of all time. But are they really just for children? Or is there more in Narnia than meets the eye? This twelve-week course will examine The Chronicles book by book as powerful stories designed to shape the hearts and minds of their readers. […]


Abortion Is About God: PDF Download

Abortion Is About God: Reframing a Moral Issue is a six-week course advancing the truth that the deepest evil of abortion is that it defies God’s supremacy over life in the womb. The course will assert that abortion is fundamentally an offense to the glory of the Creator, and will seek to provide a biblical […]


God-Centered Living: PDF Download

God-Centered Living: Christian Hedonism and the Life of Faith is a 12-week course designed to introduce students to the dangerous duty of delighting in God and how that plays out in living the day-to-day Christian life by faith. This course is an introduction to Christian Hedonism, a philosophy of life that is built on the […]


Mining God’s Word: PDF Download

Mining God’s Word: How to Study the Bible is a 12-week course designed to introduce students to inductive Bible study, leading to life-long digging and delighting in God’s Word. This course is an introduction to the methodology of inductive study of the Bible. Inductive study consists of careful observation of the text leading to sound […]


Theological Foundations 1: PDF Download

Theological Foundations I: Essentials of Christian Doctrine is a 12-week course designed to introduce students to a systematic treatment of theology, leading to both Christ-centered worship and the living-out of doctrinal truths. This course is an attempt to systematically present what the Apostle Paul called “the whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27). Students will study […]


Theological Foundations 2: PDF Download

Theological Foundations II: Essentials of Christian Doctrine is a 12-week course designed to introduce students to a systematic treatment of theology, leading to both Christ-centered worship and the living-out of doctrinal truths. This course is an attempt to systematically present what the Apostle Paul called “the whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27). Students will study […]


Old Testament Survey 1: PDF Download

The Old Testament Survey I: A Christ-Centered Approach to Studying Jesus’ Bible is intended to survey the message of the Old Testament, both at the individual book level and at the canonical level. That is, students will not only grasp the main message of each individual book of the Old Testament, but they will understand […]


Old Testament Survey 2: PDF Download

The Old Testament Survey II: A Christ-Centered Approach to Studying Jesus’ Bible is intended to survey the message of the Old Testament, both at the individual book level and at the canonical level. at is, students will not only grasp the main message of each individual book of the Old Testament, but they will understand […]


Jonathan Edwards: Teaching Video

Why Did God Create the World? Few questions are more fundamental to human existence, and few people have thought as deeply and biblically about this question as Jonathan Edwards. In this seven-lesson DVD, Professor Joe Rigney walks step by step through Jonathan Edwards’s treatise The End For Which God Created the World, exploring the biblical […]