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The Honorable Paul J. McNulty is the 9th President of Grove City College. After graduating from Grove City in 1980, President McNulty moved to Washington DC where he had an extensive legal career, and ultimately served as Deputy Attorney General of the United States. Towards the end of his legal career, McNulty suffered a significant and devastating loss that not only altered his family dynamic, but the trajectory of his professional career. In Part 6, President McNulty will speak on family, dissociating identity from career, and finding peace after loss.

Dr. Kristina O. Pazehoski and Bob Pazehoski have been married for 17 years. Dr. Pazehoski is a Professor of Biology, serves as the Assistant Dean of the Hopeman School, is the 2018 Professor of the Year, and a 2001 graduate of GCC. Her husband, Bob, also a 2001 grad, is a “self-described jack of all trades and master of none.” In this episode, Dr. Paz and Bob will speak about the realities of what it looks like when life and Providence don’t meet traditionally defined expectations and reflect on how they have wrestled with traditional roles and responsibilities as spouses and parents.

Addie Slate learned to read when she was 11. Growing up as a homeschooled student, she was not properly educated, and never received formal instruction in any core subject area. Feeling like she needed good grades to be loved by her parents, she decided to cheat her way through high school. Addie’s cheating and feelings of inadequacy led to a battle with addiction, which grew with time and eventually became the center of her life. In Part 4, Addie will speak on her struggle to become educated, overcoming her addiction, forgiving those who have wronged her, and how she is using her experience to help those who are experiencing similar struggles.

Coming into GCC as a freshman, Adam Bannister was focused on going to medical school, confident in his calling. A year later he traveled to a small mission hospital in Guatemala and fell in love with it, an experience that altered his course. In this episode, Adam will be speaking on his journey from pre-med to missions, describing how God led him to minister through music instead of through medicine. He founded a worship ministry, Songs for Revival, with the purpose of sharing the love of Christ in our world. Adam has written around 40 songs for the group, one of which he will perform for the first time at the end of this episode.

In the span of one year, Mollie Landman graduated high school, married the love of her life, and watched him die of bone cancer. In this episode, Mollie will speak of the devastation she felt in the wake of her great loss, and the power God gave her to return to life. Mollie has become a witness to God’s all-consuming love and attests to that new strength—not to move on, but to move forward.