Mr. Harold “Hal” Shurtleff, Camp Constitution, Co-Founder
Camp Constitution is an all-volunteer association first formed in 2009. The camp offers classes and workshops on a number of subjects including U.S. History, the U.S. Constitution, current events, and how to be a freedom activist. Mr. Shurtleff was and is an integral part of the founding of this increasingly effective organization.
Hal serves as the Camp Director while in session. Throughout the remainder of the year he operates the Camp Constitution Radio Show, delivers addresses to groups large and small, publishes books and other material under the Camp Constitution Publishing division, hosts the Camp Constitution blog, youtube channel, facebook page and other social media sites, raises money to fund the various efforts and carries out various other duties related to this organization.★
Contact Hal directly at: (857) 498-1309
Some of the Topics Hal currently discusses are:
- The U.S. Constitution
- The Dangers of an Article V Convention
- Agenda 21-Agenda 2030
- Get Us Out of the United Nations
- U.S. History
- Historic Contributions of Black Americans
- How to Be a More Effective Freedom Activist
- How to Start a Family Camp
Reverend Steven L. Craft, Author
The Reverend Steven Louis Craft holds a Master of Divinity Degree from Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, MA and a Bachelor of Arts in Bible and Pastoral Counseling from Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri. He has completed Clinical Pastoral Education at Boone Hospital Center, Columbia, Missouri. Rev. Craft is a member of the American Correctional Chaplains Association and is ordained as a Correctional Chaplain with the American Baptist Churches, U.S.A.. He formerly served as Correctional Chaplain at the Pine Prairie Correctional Center, the Missouri State Penitentiary and the Moshannon Valley Correctional Center in Central Pennsylvania.
Reverend Craft is the Executive Director of Christian Citizenship Ministries, Inc. He is co-author of “Virtue and Vice”: A Fascinating Journey into Spiritual Transformation. He is also the author of “Morality and Freedom: America’s Dynamic Duo”. Steven is also a motivational and inspirational speaker on issues involving race, religion, politics, and culture from a Christian, Black American, Conservative perspective. As a flexible, multi-faceted speaker, Reverend Craft can compose his message to meet a variety of audiences, always promising an insightful and power-packed presentation.★
Contact Rev. Craft directly at: (732) 682-2741
Pastor David Whitney, Cornerstone Free Church
For the last 30 years, David has pastored churches in New Jersey, Colorado, Florida and Maryland. He is currently the Pastor of Cornerstone Evangelical Free Church in Pasadena, Maryland. For the past ten years he has been teaching with Institute on the Constitution.
David is also a blogger for The American View, and author of the DVD, “Why Churches Must not Incorporate or Become 501(c)(3) Organizations.” He is the Chaplain of the Southern National Congress where he is also the Chairman of the Maryland State Delegation to the Congress. David graduated from Rutgers University with an Honors in History. He received his Masters Degree from Denver Seminary. He and his wife and daughters reside in Annapolis, Maryland.★
Lecture Topics:
- The Constitution
- Christianity and the Social Moral Issues
- Freedom of Religion
Contact: pastor@cefcmd.org or (410)-757-3799
Professor Willie Soon, CERES-Science
The Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (CERES) is a multi-disciplinary and independent research group. The aims of CERES are to address important issues in the fields of environmental and earth sciences. The group strives to foster original and timely scientific understanding, in addition to re-examining old analyses with fresh insights. We hope to illuminate, enhance, and resolve new and open issues.
Professor Soon is an astrophysicist and a geoscientist based in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. Dr. Soon earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in science and his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California. He was a speaker at the Heartland Institute’s 9th International Conf-erence on Climate Change, a gathering of many of the world’s top climate scientists and researchers who challenge the IPCC’s increasingly discredited claim that human activity is causing a global crisis that demands draconian global regulations under an increasingly powerful United Nations.
Born in Malaysia, Dr. Soon immigrated to the US in 1980. In 2004, he received the Petr Beckmann Award for outstanding contributions to the defense of scientific truth.★
Lecture Topics:
- Climate Change
- Environmental Issues
Contact Dr. Soon: Email: info@ceres-science.com
Catherine G. White
Catherine G White is a Massachusetts native – born in Worcester, raised in Quincy, and a graduate of MIT. About a decade ago, she started a book club to read W. Cleon Skousen‘s “The 5,000 Year Leap.” Out of that grew a passion for the US Constitution and a US Constitution study group that now sees attendance of about 40 people each month. She also coordinates an ever-increasing schedule of lectures, talks, study groups, and events – all centered on teaching the amazing document that is the Supreme Law of the Land. Additionally, Catherine wrote a series of articles on the Constitution for the e-zine “MinuteMom” and has lectured extensively — from colleges like Brandeis and Middlesex Community, to rallies, and to a large number of local civic groups from Pembroke to Mansfield, Portsmouth NH to Groton, and from Boston to Worcester. She has also arranged group events such as guided tours of the Forefather’s Monument in Plymouth, an all day event with Michael Badnarik, 2004 Libertarian Party candidate for President, and a lecture by Professor Kenneth Calvert of Hillsdale College. You can read her articles and watch videos at her web site, The U.S. Constitution Decoded, and there is a “contact” link at the site for more information.★
Lecture Topics:
- The US Constitution in one hour
- Exegesis of the Declaration of Independence – religious foundation
- Exegesis of the Declaration of Independence – secular
- Preamble to the Constitution – the “mission statement” of the federal government
- US Constitution – Article I
- US Constitution – Article II
- US Constitution – Article III
- US Constitution – Articles IV-V-VI-VII
- US Constitution – Bill of Rights
Dr. Duke Pesta
Dr. Duke Pesta received his M.A. in Renaissance literature from John Carroll University and his Ph.D. in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature from Purdue University. He has taught at major research institutions and small liberal arts colleges, on a wide variety of subjects at the graduate and undergraduate level, including courses on Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, the Bible, Russian literature, Christian Apologetics, and C.S. Lewis. He has been active in educational reform, and was instrumental in developing and implementing an elective Bible course that is currently available for public high school students in Texas.
Dr. Pesta is the Academic Director of FreedomProject Academy, the American Opinion Foundation’s Online Classical school. He is also a nationally-recognized critic of Common Core, having delivered over 400 talks in 40 states, and has done more than 2500 radio and television interviews on the subject. He speaks at home school conventions and educational conferences across the nation on topics including the necessity of homeschooling, the decline of morality and critical thinking in the public schools, and the myriad ways that colleges and universities indoctrinate students.★
Lecture Topics:
- Common Core: Dangers and Threats
- Common Core: From Farce to Failure
- Confounding the Founding Fathers
- C. S. Lewis: From Atheism to Apologetics
- Crisis in Contemporary Education
- The Influence of Christianity on Western Art and Culture
- Teaching Christian Worldview
- Dostoevsky, God, and the Devil
- Indoctrination on the College Campus
Fr. Michael Carl
Fr. Michael Carl is a lecturer in the History of Ideas, Western Civilization, and the impact of Islam on Western Culture. He has two Master’s Degrees, a Bachelor’s in History and Political Science, and is an avid reader. He also served six years in the United States Army and currently serves as priest at Christ the King Church in Wakefield, MA.★
| Last Modified: September 29, 2024 | Contact: Hal Shurtleff of the Camp Constitution Speakers Bureau at: (857) 498-1309 |