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Reaching and teaching through Christian apologetics
a-pol’o-get‘ics, n.; The discipline which deals with a rational defense of Christianity; giving a reason or justification of one’s beliefs; use of evidences and sound reasoning to reach individuals for Christ.
 As a speaker, writer, and advocate for Christian apologetics, Alex McFarland has appeared in hundreds of locations throughout the U.S. and internationally.
He has been interviewed by Billy Graham’s Decision radio broadcast, James Dobson (Focus On The Family radio), The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chuck Colson’s Breakpoint broadcast, CBS, FOX, NBC news, (SRN) Salem Radio Network news, the Associated Press (AP) wire service, Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald, the BBC, OK- The Celebrity News Magazine, Prime Time America, Bible Broadcast Network, La Vie (France), Christianity Today, Charisma, On Mission, and by many other media outlets as well.
Alex is the author of STAND: Core Truths You Must Know For An Unshakable Faith (Tyndale Publishers), and The Ten Most Common Objections to Christianity (and how to answer them  effectively) (Regal Books, spring 2007).
In April 2007, Zondervan will release Firme! (the Spanish language version of STAND).
Alex's upcoming book STAND STRONG...In College (Preparing for the ways that college will challenge your faith) will be released by Tyndale in the fall of 2007, and is based on nearly two decades of training teens in apologetics and knowlege of the biblical world view.
Alex was named one of North Carolina’s “Forty Leaders Under The Age of Forty,” by the Jaycees. Through the “50-States-In-50-Days Tour Of Truth” (conducted in the summer of 2000), Alex and his ministry team made headlines as they conducted a crusade throughout every US state. The 50 state, 50 day event was covered in the media, became the subject of Alex’s first book, and was used by God to bring many people to personal faith in Christ.
Through the “Truth For A New Generation” apologetics conferences, Alex assembled the world’s premier Christian apologists (such as Josh McDowell, Ravi Zacharias, Lee Strobel, and others), with a goal of introducing new audiences to the truths of Christianity.
Since 2000, Alex has been the Friday host of “Truth Talk Live,” a nationally syndicated radio program heard in numerous parts of the nation. From 2004-2006, Alex lived in Colorado Springs, CO, serving Focus On The Family as Director of Teen Apologetics.
On September 24, 2006, Alex was named third President of Southern Evangelical Seminary and the Veritas Graduate School of Apologetics, located near Charlotte, North Carolina. Founded by renowned scholar Norman Geisler, SES/Veritas offers Bachelor, Master’s, and Doctoral level degree programs, and is considered by many as the nation’s premier school for the study of apologetics (www.ses.edu).
Alex continues to collaborate with Focus On The Family in reaching students for Christ- equipping teens in apologetics and the biblical worldview. In addition to speaking and writing opportunities related to Focus On The Family, Alex also organizes the annual "BigDig" teen apologetics conference (August 10-11, 2007), and writes a monthly apologetics column for Plugged In magazine.
Alex McFarland earned an M.A. in Christian Thought / Apologetics from the
Liberty University Graduate School of Religion, Lynchburg, VA (In response to the rising influence of Eastern "thought" in America and the West, Alex wrote his master's thesis on, "An Examination of the Pantheistic Monism of Shankara and Rhadakrishnan). He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Southern Evangelical Seminary and the Veritas Graduate School of Apologetics.
During his years of seminary and graduate school training, Alex served two as a youth pastor and staff minister. Since 1996, he has been traveling and speaking throughout the U.S., raising awareness for apologetics, and training Christians to answer common objections to the faith.
Alex has ministered in churches of every denomination, preached in jails and prisons, spoken on college campuses and in many public schools.
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