Nancy Pearcey grew up in a very physically abusive home, which set the stage for what was to come. As a strong and determined young woman with a burning intellect, she wanted answers. She spent many years exploring feminism, biological determinism, Darwinian evolution, and many other areas of secular and leftist ideology and science, eventually comfortably describing herself as an atheist. But Jesus had other plans for her. For many years now, Nancy is a distinguished professor at Houston Christian University, a fierce apologist, and one of the most intellectual and influential voices in the modern Christian world.

Nancy Pearcey's latest book is The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes. Her earlier books include Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality, The Soul of Science, Saving Leonardo, Finding Truth, and two ECPA Gold Medallion Award Winners: How Now Shall We Live (coauthored with Harold Fickett and Chuck Colson) and Total Truth.

Her books have been translated into 20 languages. She is professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University. A former agnostic, Pearcey has spoken at universities such as Princeton, Stanford, USC, and Dartmouth. She has been quoted in The New Yorker and Newsweek, highlighted as one of the five top women apologists by Christianity Today, and hailed in The Economist as "America's pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual."