Nancy R. Pearcey is author of Total Truth, winner of the 2005 ECPA Gold Medallion Award for best book on Christianity and Society. She also won the 2000 ECPA Gold Medallion Award for How Now Shall We Live? (coauthored with Chuck Colson and novelist Harold Fickett). Her other books include The Soul of Science and Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning. Her most recent is Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism & Other God Substitutes.
Pearcey has contributed chapters to several books and has published over one hundred articles in outlets such as the Washington Post, the Washington Times, First Things, American Thinker, Human Events, Christianity Today, Books & Culture, World, Human Life Review, American Enterprise, The Daily Caller, and Regent University Law Review. She appears frequently on radio and television, including Fox & Friends, NPR, and C-SPAN.
Heralded as “America’s pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual” (The Economist), Nancy has addressed staffers on Capitol Hill and at the White House; actors and screenwriters in Hollywood; scientists at labs such as Sandia and Los Alamos; artists at the International Arts Movement; students and faculty at universities such as Princeton, Stanford, Dartmouth, USC, Ohio State, the University of Georgia, and St. John’s College; and educational and activist groups including the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC.
Pearcey is professor of apologetics and scholar in residence at Houston Baptist University; editor at large of The Pearcey Report; and a fellow at the Discovery Institute. Previous positions include visiting scholar at Biola University’s Torrey Honors Institute, professor of worldview studies at Cairn University, and the Francis A. Schaeffer Scholar at the World Journalism Institute.
Formerly an agnostic, Nancy studied Christian worldview at L’Abri Fellowship in Switzerland under Francis Schaeffer. She earned a BA from Iowa State University, an MA from Covenant Theological Seminary, and pursued further graduate work in the history of philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. In 2007 she received an honorary doctoral degree from Cairn University.
From 1977 to 1990 Pearcey wrote articles for the Bible-Science Association on the intersection of science and worldview. From 1991 to 1999 she was founding editor of the daily radio program BreakPoint, where she wrote over one thousand commentaries and headed up a team of writers. For seven years she coauthored a monthly column with Chuck Colson in Christianity Today.
Nancy and her husband, Rick, have two sons, both of whom were homeschooled.