Lee Strobel

AtheistturnedChristian Lee Strobel the former awardwinning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune is a New York Times bestselling author of more than forty books and curricula that have sold fourteen million copies in total He currently serves as Founding Director of the Lee Strobel Center for Evangelism and Applied Apologetics at Colorado Christian University Lee has been described in the Washington Post as one of the evangelical communitys most popular apologists He was educated at the University of Missouri Bachelor of Journalism degree and Yale Law School Master of Studies in Law degree He was a journalist for fourteen years at The Chicago Tribune and other newspapers winning Illinois highest honors for both investigative reporting and public service journalism from United Press International After probing the evidence for Jesus for nearly two years Lee became a Christian in 1981 He subsequently became a teaching pastor at three of Americas largest churches and hosted the national network TV program Faith Under Fire In addition he taught First Amendment law at Roosevelt University and was Professor of Christian Thought at Houston Baptist University