Fr. Christy
Fr. Christy is a priest of the Diocese of Metuchen, NJ. He serves as Pastor of St. Magdalen de Pazzi parish in Flemington, NJ and the Diocesan Spiritual Director for Natural Family Planning. He is currently pursuing a Licentiate in the New Evangelization at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit.
Timothy P. Flanigan, MD
Timothy P. Flanigan, MD is Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases at the Miriam and Rhode Island Hospitals and Brown Medical School. He received a BA from Dartmouth College and an MD from Cornell University Medical School. Subsequently, he completed Residency Training Internal Medicine at Hospital University of Pennsylvania. He completed his Infectious Disease Fellowship and Geographic Medicine Training at Case Western Reserve University and was asked to be Chief Resident. He subsequently joined faculty as Assistant Professor of Medicine. In 1991 he came to join Dr. Charles Carpenter to lead the HIV and AIDS Program and subsequently was appointed Chief of Infectious Diseases in 1999 until stepping down last year. He spearheaded the HIV Care Program at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections and has received NIH funding to develop improved treatments for HIV infection. In particular, he has initiated an innovative program of community based support to improve HIV treatment among marginalized communities. This community-based support has included modified directly observed therapy for active substance users. It has also led to the development of combined substance abuse treatment and HIV treatment at the “one stop shopping” Immunology Center. He has received NIH funding continuously to improve HIV care from 1991 to present. He has played a longstanding leadership role in the development of the Brown University Global Health Program and he directs active research programs in Ghana and Ukraine. He has received recognition from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and from the HIV Medicine Association for his community based work with HIV infected men and women that are in prison and jail and providing educational support for their children. He has lead training programs and provided mentorship to dozens of junior investigators and faculty members.
David Prosen, MA, LPCC, LMHC
David graduated in 2006 with a MA in counseling from Franciscan University of Steubenville and with a Certificate of Concentration in Christian Counseling. He is licensed in both Ohio and New York. Currently, he works at several places including the Wellness Center at Franciscan University of Steubenville as a clinical counselor to students and at The Raphael Remedy of New York, where he offers Catholic phone/internet counseling and life coaching. As a Catholic therapist he helps others with a variety of issues some of which include, depression, anxiety, gender wounds, co-dependency and more. As a life coach, David specializes in helping Catholic parents navigate the waters of a loved one, claiming a gay or lesbian identity. This includes exploring ways to love he or she authentically. He has given numerous presentations across the country on same-sex attraction from a Catholic perspective. David has had three articles published in Lay Witness Magazine and others published at both Catholic Therapist.com and The Raphael Remedy’s web site. David can also be seen in the recently released documentary, “The Third Way: Homosexuality and the Catholic Church”, by Blackstone Films.
Rachel Lu
Rachel Lu is a writer and instructor of philosophy. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Cornell University, and is a Senior Contributor at The Federalist. Her work has also appeared in Crisis Magazine, Ricochet, Public Discourse, First Things, National Review, National Catholic Register, Aleteia, Touchstone Magazine and Human Life Review. She teaches philosophy at the University of St. Thomas and lives in St. Paul, MN with her husband and four sons.
Fr. Nathan Reesman
Father Nathan Reesman is a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, ordained in 2006. He is the Shared Pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish, and also of Saint Frances Cabrini Parish, both in West Bend, Wisconsin. Father Reesman is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, obtaining his Bachelors of Arts in Political Science in the year 2000. He completed his seminary studies at Saint Francis de Sales Seminary for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee in 2006, obtaining a Masters of Divinity. Father Reesman completed post-graduate studies at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, obtaining a Doctor of Ministry in 2019. He is also a Courage/EnCourage Chaplain for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and serves on the Board of Directors for Courage International.
Peter Herbeck
Peter Herbeck is the Vice President and Director of Missions for Renewal Ministries. For the past 30 years, he has been actively involved in evangelization and Catholic renewal throughout the U.S., Canada, Africa, and Eastern Europe. Peter is a co-host for the weekly television programs The Choices We Face and Crossing the Goal. He also hosts the daily radio show Fire on the Earth. He is a frequent conference speaker, has authored When the Spirit Comes in Power and When the Spirit Speaks, and has produced CDs and booklets about discipleship and life in the Spirit. Through articles, CDs, radio and television programs, and conference speaking Peter has also worked to provide Catholic leaders with the tools to effectively address the challenges in the fight to redefine marriage. Peter is involved with i.d.9:16, an outreach to Catholic young adults sponsored by Renewal Ministries. Peter and his wife Debbie have four children and reside in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Timothy G. Lock, Ph.D.
Timothy G. Lock, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist in full time private practice. Dr. Lock serves on the Boards of Directors of Courage International and of the Christian Counseling Center of Greater Danbury, where he also is the Clinical Supervisor. He has lectured nationally and internationally to seminarians, clergy, mental health practitioners, and the general public on issues including Catholic psychology, Catholic psychotherapy, the psychology of same-sex attractions, and psychotherapeutic treatment of individuals with same-sex attractions. A practicing Roman Catholic, Dr. Lock lives with his wife of 22 years and their eight children in northwestern Connecticut.
Andrew Comiskey, M.Div.
Andrew Comiskey (M.Div.) has worked extensively with the healing of the sexually and relationally broken. He is founder and Director of Desert Stream/Living Waters Ministries, a multifaceted outreach to the broken. Andrew’s ministry grows both out of his own commitment to overcome homosexuality and his experience as a husband to Annette and father of four children. He is author of Pursuing Sexual Wholeness (Creation House), Strength in Weakness (InterVarsity Press), Naked Surrender: Coming Home To Our True Sexuality (InterVarsity Press) and the Living Waters healing program. Andrew seeks to equip the global church to be whole and holy, a bride ready to receive Jesus. Andrew attends and serves at St. Thomas More in Kansas City, Missouri. After over three decades of ministry Andrew still loves imparting healing to the entire body of Christ.
Deacon Patrick Lappert
Deacon Patrick Lappert is a retired US Navy captain and a board-certified plastic surgeon. In 2013 he was ordained a deacon for the Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama, where he serves as the Courage chaplain.
Paul Darrow
Since his adolescence, Paul Darrow’s world travels, glamorous careers and ties to high society have given him invaluable insight about many aspects of the alternative lifestyle. Several days after graduating college, Paul moved to Manhattan where he became an international fashion model. Shortly after his recent conversion and at his very first public speaking engagement, Paul was surprised to find himself sharing the lectern with esteemed university presidents, political figures, priests and producers of award-winning films. Just two months later, he was being filmed as one of the subjects of the movie Desire of the Everlasting Hills, which has since been distributed to the bishops at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He has appeared as a guest for Catholic radio interviews and has recently been filmed for a special on Catholic television. Whether giving presentations to young adults in church family life centers, to private organizations in university settings, to inmates in state penitentiaries or to clergy and seminarians in convent retreat houses, Paul shares his unusual testimony in order to be a living example that God’s grace is always at work and is more powerful than even the greatest of human weaknesses.