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Scholars/Advisors to Wilberforce Central
Kevin Belmonte
Alan R. Crippen
Michael J. Horowitz
John Pollock
Kevin Belmonte
Mr. Belmonte is one of the leading authorities
on William Wilberforce today. He is the author of Hero for
Humanity, a biography of the British anti-slavery reformer
William Wilberforce, was the 2003 recipient of the John
Pollock Prize for Christian Biography. Other winners of this
prestigious prize include George Marsden's Jonathan Edwards:
A Life (2004) and Joseph Pearce's Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in
Exile (2002). Hero for Humanity was also selected as a
finalist for ForeWord magazine's Book of the Year Award, and
has received critical acclaim in Booklist Magazine, the
Midwest Book Review and Publishers Weekly.
Belmonte has served as a script consultant
for the BBC and is currently the lead historical consultant
for Amazing Grace, a wide-release feature film from
Bristol Bay Productions on the life of Wilberforce. Amazing Grace is slated
for an early 2007 release to coincide with the 200th
anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade.
Belmonte has just completed a new book for the British firm
Day One Publications exploring Wilberforce's England. It
will be called Travel with William Wilberforce: In the
Footsteps of 'the Friend of Humanity' It is slated for
release in late February 2006.
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Alan R. Crippen
Alan R. Crippen II is founder and president
of the John Jay Institute for Faith, Society and Law.
Previously Mr. Crippen served for nine years as founding
rector of the Witherspoon Fellowship, a leading civic and
cultural leadership development program for college-age
students based in Washington, D.C. He has two decades of
experience in non-profit executive management and college
level teaching including vice-president for policy and
academic affairs at Family Research Council, senior fellow
at the Institute for Family Studies in Colorado Springs,
Colorado, and director of development at International
Students, Inc. in Colorado Springs. Mr. Crippen's vocational
passion is for the formation of young leaders who aspire to
public life. He is particularly inspired to prepare them
with the contours of a worldview, knowledge, and piety
requisite for faithful Christian service in the public
square. Mr. Crippen holds degrees from Westminster
Theological Seminary (M.A.R.) and Philadelphia College of
Bible (B.S.).
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Michael J. Horowitz
Michael J. Horowitz is a prominent Jewish
human-rights and a director of Hudson Institute's Project
for Civil Justice Reform and Project for International
Religious Liberty. He served as general counsel for the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 1981 to 1985, and
as an associate professor of law at the University of
Mississippi from 1965 to 1967. Horowitz has maintained a
private law practice since 1967. Horowitz has been an
adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School, special counsel
for the Committee on the Judicial Branch of the Judicial
Conference of the United States, and special counsel to the
National Council of Young Israel. He served as chairman of
President Reagan's Domestic Policy Council on Federalism and
was co-chairman of the Cabinet Council's Working Group on
Legal/Tort Policy. In addition to his domestic credentials,
Horowitz also served as an advisor to the Czech, Slovak, and
Bulgarian Academies of Science; was vice president of the
Bulgarian American Friendship Society; Counsel and Trustee
of Save Cambodia, Inc.; and a National Advisory Board Member
of the Institute for Democracy in Vietnam. He earned his
LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1964.
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John Pollock
Mr. Pollock is another of the leading
scholars on William Wilberforce. He is a celebrated
contemporary author with over 1.2 million books in print. He
has authored the full biographies of William Wilberforce as
well as others including Billy Graham and General Gordon of
Khartoum. In researching the biography of Wilberforce, Mr.
Pollock was able to access a number of letters and
correspondence from the decedents of Wilberforce and those
that knew Wilberforce that has been able to significantly
advance the scholarship on Wilberforce and his Clapham Group
friends.
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