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Mrs. Laura M. Berquist a home schooling mother of six, is founder and director of Mother of Divine Grace School, a home study program currently serving over 4000 students. Mrs. Berquist is the author of Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum and editor of The Harp and Laurel Wreath: Poetry and Dictation for the Classical Curriculum. Based on the philosophy of the classical Trivium—grammar, logic, and rhetoric—she has developed a modern classical home school curriculum for grades K-12 that strengthens character and intellect, and reinforces virtue.Mrs. Berquist is a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, CA. She home schooled her six children for 23 years. All of them graduated from Thomas Aquinas College. Four are married and the youngest two are currently in graduate school, both studying philosophy. She now has 6 grandchildren.
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| Dr. Robert Fastiggi is Professor of Systematic Theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, MI., where he’s been since 1999. From 1985-1999, he taught at St. Edward’s University in Austin, TX. He holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Theology from Fordham University. He is the author of What the Church Teaches about Sex (Our Sunday Visitor, 2009) [available on Amazon.com] and the Executive Editor of the 2009, 2010 and 2011 supplements to the New Catholic Encyclopedia. He is also the co-editor of the English translation of the 43rd edition of the Denzinger compendium of Catholic sources published by Ignatius Press in November, 2012. Dr. Fastiggi and his wife, Kathy, are parents of three children. |
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Gary Michuta has been a popular speaker on Catholic apologetics and evangelism for the past 20 years. He has helped hundreds of Catholics better understand and explain their Faith through parish talks, seminars, and on-line classes.He is the former editor of Hands On Apologetics Magazine and has written four books on Catholic apologetics including, How to Wolf-proof Your Kids: A Practical Guide to Keeping Your Kids Catholic and Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger: The Untold Story of the Lost Books of the Protestant Bible. Gary's latest book, Making Sense of Mary provides a unique biblical and historical viewpoint that enables Catholics and non-Catholics to more fully appreciate Mary's place in God's plan of redemption and help overcome many of the difficulties non-Catholics face when trying to understand Marian doctrine.Over the years, Gary has been a featured guest on several national Catholic radio and television programs, such as the Son-rise Morning Show, Catholic Connection, Morning Air, Kresta in the Afternoon, the Journey Home, Deep in Scripture, Searching the Word, Catholic Answers Live, and others. He has written articles for Envoy Magazine and The Catholic Answer.Gary, his wife Christine, and his three children live in south-east Michigan and he is currently working as the director of apologetics for the Eastern Churches Re-Evangelization Center (ECRC) and teaches middle and high school level apologetics courses on-line for HomeschoolConnections.com. |
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| Mrs. LuAnne Mellis holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Michigan. She worked as an electrical engineer before becoming a home-educating mother. LuAnne has spent the last two decades educating her children at home here in Michigan, and she has spent the last eight years guiding her three children through high school, the college application process, and the transition to college. She has also served as a teacher for many additional home-educated teens through her work leading high school science laboratories in her home over the past eight years.An experienced speaker, Mrs. Mellis has presented Getting Started, Curriculum Choices and Teaching Science in the Catholic Home School at previous “It’s Great to be Catholic” Conferences. |
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