TODD A. KAPPELMAN

Probe Ministries Field Associate
1900 Firman Drive, Suite 100
Richardson, TX 75081
Phone: (972) 480-0240
FAX: (972) 644-9664

Todd Kappelman is a field associate with Probe Ministries. He received a B.A. and M.A.B.S. in Religion and Greek from Dallas Baptist University and a M.A. in humanities/philosophy from the University of Dallas. Currently he is pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy and religion at the University of Dallas. He has served as assistant director of the Trinity Institute, a study center devoted to Christian thought and inquiry. He has been the managing editor of the Antithesis, a bimonthly publication devoted to the critique of foreign and independent film. His central area of expertise is Continental philosophy, especially nineteenth/twentieth century and postmodern thought.

Todd is working on "alternative ministries" for Probe Ministries. He does all the coordinating and scheduling of the speakers for the Tuesday Night Forum at Club Dada. This is a weekly philosophy, theology and ethics forum in the "Deep Ellum" arts district of downtown Dallas. In addition to scheduling, Todd is the senior speaker and participates regularly in the rotation.

Todd serves as a residential tutor at The Veritas House. This is a private study center for undergraduate and graduate students in the greater Dallas area. He and his wife, Deanna, are owners and directors of the study center.

PROBE PUBLICATIONS

A Return to Modesty
Christmas Film Favorites
C.S. Lewis: His Enduring Legacy
Dietrich Bonhoffer
Film and the Christian
Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Message
The Need to Read: G.K. Chesterton
The Need to Read: Francis Schaeffer
The Breakdown of Religious Knowledge
Titanic: A Critical Appraisal

LECTURES

Friedrich Nietzsche and Existentialism
The Church in a Postmodern Society
Political Correctness and "Gender Truth"
Friedrich Nietzsche and Postmodernism
Existentialism
Postmodernism
Ecology
Capital Punishment
Literature as Truth
Meta-narrative Truth
War
Film
Postmodern Art