Meet Lee Strobel
MEET LEE STROBEL
Atheist-turned-Christian Lee Strobel, the former award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune, is a New York Times bestselling author of nearly twenty books and has been interviewed on numerous national television networks, including ABC, PBS, CNN, and Fox.
Described by the Washington Post as “one of the evangelical community’s most popular apologists,” Lee shared the prestigious Charles “Kip” Jordon Christian Book of the Year award in 2005 for a curriculum he coauthored about the movie The Passion of the Christ. He also has won Gold Medallions for his books The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, The Case for a Creator, and Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary.
Lee was educated at the University of Missouri (Bachelor of Journalism degree, 1974) and Yale Law School (Master of Studies in Law degree, 1979). He was a professional journalist for fourteen years at the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers, winning Illinois’ top honors for investigative reporting (which he shared with a team he led) and public service journalism from United Press International.
A former teaching pastor at two of America’s largest churches, Lee also was executive producer and host of the weekly national television program Faith under Fire. In addition, he taught First Amendment law at Roosevelt University. In 2007 he was honored by the conferring of a Doctor of Divinity degree from Southern Evangelical Seminary.
Lee and Leslie have been married for thirty-five years and live in Southern California. Their daughter, Alison, is a novelist whose second book, Violette Between, was published in 2006. Their son, Kyle, holds two master’s degrees (philosophy of religion and New Testament) and is pursuing a doctorate in theology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. His first book, Metamorpha: Jesus as a Way of Life, was published in 2007.
Lee’s free e-newsletter, “Investigating Faith,” is available at LeeStrobel.com.