The people behind the work
Board and Leadership
Jason Cherry
Board Chairman
Jason Cherry is an elder and one of the founders of Trinity Reformed Church in Huntsville, Alabama, as well as a teacher and lecturer of literature, history, and economics at Providence Classical School in Huntsville. He graduated from Reformed Theological Seminary with an MA in Religion and is the author of the books *The Culture of Conversionism and the History of the Altar Call* and *The Making of Evangelical Spirituality.*
Jason Boone
Board Member
Jason Boone is a retired Major from the U.S. Army. He has an MA in Management and Leadership from Webster University and currently serves as the Operations Director at Trinity Reformed Church.
Chris Martin
Board Member
Chris Martin has a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering, is the Chief of Test and Evaluation, HQ Air Force Reserve, Integrated Strategy Office, and is a Principal Aerodynamics Engineer at Stratolaunch LLC.
Chris Rosema
Board Member
Chris Rosema is an Aerospace Engineer for the US Army Aviation & Missile Center with 20 years of experience. He has a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Caleb Byrd
Board Member
Caleb Byrd is an Alabama resident and Senior Litigator at Younts Law, PLLC, where he practices Military Law, Veterans Law, and Civil Litigation. Before joining Younts Law, Caleb served as a U.S. Army JAG officer for seven years. As a JAG officer, Caleb served as a Trial Defense Attorney at Fort Bragg, N.C., as the Special Victims Prosecutor for Fort Knox, KY, and as an Operational Law Attorney deployed to Iraq.
Lending their name to the work
Council of Reference
George Grant
Pastor of Parish Presbyterian Church, Director of the King’s Meadow Study Center, Founder of both Franklin Classical School and Bannockburn College, Coordinator of the Chalmers Fund, and author of dozens of book
Thomas Chalmers, the great 19th century mathematician and theologian, once presciently declared, “The truth is, that infidelity, foiled in its repeated attacks on the main citadel of the Christian argument, now seeks for auxiliaries from every quarter, however remote of human speculation. There is not perhaps one of the sciences which has not, at some time or other, been pressed into the service; and the mischief is, that in very proportion of their ignorance of these sciences, might the faith of men be unsettled by the imagination of a wizard power, that each of them on the authority of some great infidel name, has been said to possess—casting obscuration over the truth of Christianity. We must therefore with superior scientific excellence bid such visionary fictions altogether away into the shades from which they have been conjured.” It is precisely for this reason that New Trinity College is so needful at precisely this civilizational moment, two centuries hence. Domine, affer lucem!
Bryan Dawson
CEO, 1819 News
The cultural chaos we find ourselves in, stems directly from the fact that our systems of education no longer produce men of valor and women of virtue. a society cannot be better than its pedagogical systems. The most important work we can be engaged in to restore our once great civilization, is the work of real, robust, all of Christ for all of life education. This must include both liberal arts and the sciences. Where schools like New Saint Andrews have mastered a classical Christian liberal arts education, New Trinity College will produce world view trained graduates, prepared to succeed in the science and tech space. I’m thrilled that that will be taking place here in Alabama
Timothy Dernlan
Head of School at Classical School of Wichita, Author, and former ACCS Vice President
I am honored to lend my support to New Trinity Foundation and its vision for intentionally Christ centered higher education. By joining the riches of the liberal arts and the great books of Western civilization with serious study in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, New Trinity Foundation is addressing a profound need in American education. Huntsville is an extraordinary setting for this work, and I believe the college has the potential to become a leading institution of Christian higher education, making a significant contribution to our nation for the glory of God and the good of His people.
Rev. Dr. Uri Brito
Senior Pastor of Providence Church in Pensacola, FL.
New Trinity College’s commitment to reunite rigorous STEM education with the liberal arts under the lordship of Christ is both timely and vital. This work promises to form graduates whose technical excellence is guided by wisdom, virtue, and faithful Christian conviction.
Dr. Ben Merkle
President, New Saint Andrews
Founders of new Christian liberal arts colleges do the hard but imperative work of reclaiming Christ’s rightful place as the nexus of all knowledge. Such was the work of the original universities; though the concept was lost for a time, presently, God is revealing afresh that all things consist in Him. New Trinity College seeks to unify the arts with the sciences in Him, a liberal endeavor in the old sense of the word.
Drew Hicks
Operations Director 1819 News
As a business leader, veteran, engaged Christian citizen and father of 6, I am desperate for a College that will not sacrifice philosophical and worldview literacy in exchange for scientific and technical understanding. I believe New Trinity College will produce graduates prepared to build on a sound understanding of God’s creation as well as His demand for worshipers who can capture arguments, tear down strongholds and rebuild new Christendom.
Guillermo Gonzalez
Astrophysicist, Senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. Co-author of The Privileged Planet
This is a needed effort as institutions of higher learning are failing our youth in the important matters while indoctrinating them with failed ideologies.
Peter J. Leithart
President, Theopolis Institute
Since C.P. Snow delivered his famous lecture in 1950, many have lamented the separation of "Two Cultures," of the scientists and of the humanists. Christians have largely left the divide intact, devoting most of their educational energies to the liberal arts, neglecting or even disparaging scientific endeavor. We must do better. Humanists don't reckon with humanity as it is unless they reckon with the intensely human curiosity and creativity that drives science and technology. Many today, on the other hand, recognize the dehumanizing effects of modern science and fear it will get worse. I commend New Trinity College for its ambitious plan to break down the dividing wall to infuse science into the humanities and to humanize science.
David Ruth
Provost, The University of Austin
We need more Keplers: visionaries who expand the frontiers of science while anchored in unshakeable faith. New Trinity’s mission to integrate scientific discovery with divine truth, purpose, and moral order is precisely how we cultivate them
C.R. Wiley
Host of "The Theology Pugcast," Author
We live in a dystopia in which scientists and engineers think of themselves as machines made of meat, and artists are utterly disconnected from objective reality. Hopefully, New Trinity will be a dose of sanity in a world gone mad.