Tom Gilson Bio

Tom Gilson has been in ministry since 1979, most of those years with Campus Crusade for Christ (Cru), but more recently in leadership with the campus apologetics ministry Ratio Christi, then as a senior editor with The Stream. In 2013 he also founded and for two years was leader of the membership-by-invitation Apologetics Leadership Group for national-level writers, speakers and scholars.

Tom has written or edited six books, including the very positively reviewed Too Good to be False: How Jesus’ Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality, as well as A Christian Mind: Thoughts on Life and Truth in Jesus Christ, and Critical Conversations: A Christian Parents’ Guide to Discussing Homosexuality with Teens.

He’s been blogging since 2004 at Thinking Christian, and has also been a featured columnist and blogger at BreakPoint and First Things.