Michael Horton
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Michael Scott Horton is the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California, editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation magazine, and host of the nationally syndicated radio broadcast, The White Horse Inn. He was formerly the president of Christians United for Reformation (CURE), which later merged to become the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals (ACE). From 2001 to 2004 Horton served as the president of the Alliance, but is now no longer affiliated with the organization. Both Modern Reformation magazine and the White Horse Inn broadcast are now entities under the umbrella of White Horse Media, whose offices are located on the campus of Westminster Seminary California.
Horton received a M.A. from Westminster Seminary California, a Ph.D. from Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and Coventry University, and completed a Research Fellowship at Yale Divinity School. He was ordained a deacon in the Reformed Episcopal Church and is currently a minister in the United Reformed Churches in North America in which denomination he has served two churches in southern California.
Horton has written and edited more than fifteen books along with numerous popular and academic articles, including:
- The Agony of Deceit
- Made In America
- Power Religion: The Selling Out of The Evangelical Church
- Putting Amazing Back Into Grace
- The Law of Perfect Freedom
- Beyond Culture Wars
- Where In The World Is The Church
- We Believe: Recovering the Essentials of the Apostle's Creed, Covenant & Eschatology
- Covenant and Eschatology
- A Better Way: Rediscovering the Drama of God-Centered Worship
- Lord and Servant
- God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology
- Too Good to be True: Finding Hope in a World of Hype
Horton is married and has four young children (including triplets).
