Meet the Voices Behind the Documentary.

Truth Rising features a dynamic mix of cultural thinkers, courageous individuals, and everyday heroes—each offering a unique lens on the challenges and opportunities facing our world today.

Hosted by John Stonestreet and Os Guinness, the film brings together both Christian and secular voices who speak with conviction and compassion. These men and women were selected for their insight, experience, and commitment to living out truth in a culture hungry for clarity.

From global leaders and renowned scholars to bold young advocates, their stories and wisdom will challenge you, inspire you, and help you live faithfully in this pivotal moment.

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Os Guinness

Host of Truth Rising

Author and social critic Os Guinness is host of Truth Rising. Great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, he was born in China in World War II, where his parents were medical missionaries. A witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949, he was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to Europe where he was educated in England. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D.Phil in social sciences at Oriel College, Oxford.

Guinness has written or edited more than 25 books, including The American Hour, Time for Truth, The Call, Invitation to the Classics, Long Journey Home, Unspeakable, A Case for Civility, and A Free People’s Suicide. His latest book is The Global Public Square.

Previously, he was a freelance reporter with the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC). Since coming to the United States in 1984, Guinness has been a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies and a guest scholar and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 1986 to 1989, he served as the executive director of the Williamsburg Charter Foundation, a bicentennial celebration of the First Amendment. In this position, he helped to draft the Williamsburg Charter and co-authored the public school curriculum Living With Our Deepest Differences. From 1991 to 2004 he was a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, and a frequent speaker and seminar leader at political and business conferences in both the United States and Europe.

As a European visitor to this country and a great admirer but detached observer of American culture today, he stands in the long tradition of outside voices who have contributed so much to America’s ongoing discussion about the state of the union. He lives with his wife Jenny in McLean, VA.

John Stonestreet

Host of Truth Rising

Truth Rising host John Stonestreet serves as president of the Colson Center. He’s a sought-after speaker and author on areas of faith and culture, theology, worldview, education and apologetics. John is the daily voice of Breakpoint, the nationally syndicated commentary on the culture founded by the late Chuck Colson. He has co-authored five books including A Practical Guide to Culture and Restoring All Things.

Before coming to the Colson Center in 2010, John served in various leadership capacities with Summit Ministries and was on the biblical studies faculty at Bryan College (TN). John is an ordained deacon in the Anglican Diocese of All Nations (Anglican Church of North America). He and his wife, Sarah, have four children and live in Colorado Springs, CO.

In addition to hosting the Truth Rising documentary, he also serves as the instructor for the small-group curriculum to be released after the film.

Talent Bios

Chloe Cole

Chloe Cole, a poised and articulate 20-year-old woman, passionately advocates against the practice of transitioning minors.

Driven by a noble mission to safeguard children from potentially harmful ideologies and medical interventions. Chloe draws from her personal experiences to shed light on the distressing consequences of “gender-affirming care” for adolescents.

Having embarked on her own transition journey at the tender age of 12, including puberty suppressants, cross sex hormones at 13, and a double mastectomy at 15, only to subsequently detransition at 16. Chloe speaks with firsthand authority on the deeply traumatic effects experienced by minors undergoing “gender-affirming care.”

Seth Dillon

Seth Dillon is the CEO of The Babylon Bee, a fast-growing news satire site that has overtaken The Onion in traffic and engagement. Taking on the tone of a traditional news media publication, the Bee satirizes real-world events and public figures.

He has mastered the art of satire, which punches hard against wokeism and cancel culture. He speaks to the effectiveness of humor, the moral imperative of mockery, and the dangers of censorship. His stand against censorship and “deplatforming” has placed him on the front lines of the battle for free speech in the public square.

Dillon occasionally signs off X to enjoy time with his wife and two sons in Juno Beach, Florida.

Katy Faust

Katy Faust is Founder and President of Them Before Us, a global movement defending children’s right to their mother and father. She publishes, speaks and testifies widely on why marriage and family are matters of justice for children. Her articles have appeared in Newsweek, USA Today, The Federalist, Public Discourse, WORLD Magazine, The Daily Signal, the Washington Examiner, the American Mind, and the American Conservative.

She is on the advisory board for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. Faust helped design the teen edition of CanaVox, which studies sex, marriage and relationships from a natural law perspective. She and co-author Stacy Manning detailed their philosophy of worldview transmission in their second book, Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City. She and her pastor husband are raising their four children in Seattle.

Jack Phillips

As the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado, Jack Phillips has become the name and face associated with business owners standing up for their deeply held religious beliefs.

For over 12 years, the Colorado cake artist has stood courageously and endured targeted attacks against him, his family, and his business, Masterpiece Cakeshop. The first attack started in 2012, when Colorado pursued legal action against Jack after he respectfully declined a request to create a custom cake celebrating a same-sex wedding. In June 2018, Jack received his first hard-fought victory with the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that the state had acted with “clear and impermissible hostility” towards Jack’s religious beliefs, violating the First Amendment. The legal attacks persist, and Jack continues to stand courageously for his faith.

Baroness Philippa Stroud

Baroness Philippa Stroud is CEO of the Legatum Institute. Previously, she was Chief Executive of the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a think tank that she co-founded in 2004. Stroud’s life and career to date have been strongly influenced by her passion to tackle poverty and social breakdown.

Prior to the CSJ, she was Special Adviser the Rt. Hon. Iain Duncan Smith MP (then Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) from 2010-15, and also to the Prime Minister from 2012. In these roles, she was responsible for the development of the Social Justice agenda, working on the Government’s key Welfare Reform programme, the introduction of Universal Credit, the creation of Social Investment and the new child poverty measures. Her early career was spent in the voluntary sector including spending time in Hong Kong and Macau working with heroin addicts and ex-members of triad gangs who were undergoing rehabilitation. On her return to the UK she founded and directed a four-stage project that supported people off the streets and into independent living before moving to Birmingham in 2000 where she became Executive Director of the Bridge Project, a voluntary sector project that provided supported accommodation for homeless men and women.

Following the 2015 UK General Election, Philippa was ennobled and became Baroness Stroud of Fulham.

Niall Ferguson

Sir Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, where he served for twelve years as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History.

He is the author of sixteen books. His first, Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation 1897-1927, was short-listed for the History Today Book of the Year award, while the collection of essays he edited, Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals, was a UK bestseller. In 1998 he published to international critical acclaim The Pity of War: Explaining World War One and The World’s Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild. The latter won the Wadsworth Prize for Business History and was also short-listed for the Jewish Quarterly/Wingate Literary Award and the American National Jewish Book Award. In 2001, after a year as a Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England, he published The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000.

In 2003, Ferguson wrote and presented a six-part history of the British Empire for Channel 4, the UK broadcaster. The accompanying book, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, was a bestseller in both Britain and the United States. The sequel, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, was published in 2004 by Penguin, and prompted Time magazine to name him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Two years later he published The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, a television adaptation of which was screened by PBS in 2007. The international bestseller, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, followed in 2008; it too was a PBS series, winning the International Emmy award for Best Documentary, as well as the Handelszeitung Economics Book Prize. In 2011 he published Civilization: The West and the Rest, also a Channel 4/PBS documentary series. A year later came the three-part television series “China: Triumph and Turmoil.” The book based on his 2012 BBC Reith lectures, The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die, was a New York Times bestseller within a week of its publication.

Niall Ferguson’s most recent book is Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe.

He is married to the author and women’s rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. He has five children.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a human rights activist, women’s rights activist, champion of free speech, and best-selling author.

Somalian-born Dutch-American writer, activist, conservative thinker, and former politician. Research fellow at the Hoover Institution and founder of the AHA Foundation. Member of the Dutch Parliament (2003 to 2006), known for speaking truth to power.

John Anderson

John Anderson is a sixth-generation farmer and grazier from New South Wales, who spent 19 years from 1989 in the Australian Parliament.

He served as a senior Cabinet minister in the reformist government led by John Howard (1996 to 2005), one of the most successful governments in Australian parliamentary history. This included six years as Leader of the National Party and Deputy Prime Minister.

The Liberal-National Party coalition, with Anderson integral in the process, tackled budget repair and promoted economic growth.Much-needed tax modernisation and shrewd expenditure restraint were among the measures that helped deliver a string of ten out of twelve budget surpluses; unprecedented in the post war era.They delivered an average annual GDP growth rate of 3.6%, restored Australia’s AAA credit rating and saw average household income double between 1994-95 and 2007-08.During their tenure over two million new jobs were created by small and large businesses, and the total number of apprentices in training increased by two-and-a-half fold.

During Anderson’s service, the Coalition was also responsible for the Work for the Dole and Green Corps social programmes, and the New Schools Policy – initiatives maintained and enhanced by subsequent governments.

Anderson oversaw coordinated transport reform through Auslink, which initiated a vastly improved and integrated national transport infrastructure; the National Water Initiative, which provided for interstate water policy agreement and security; and various other social & economic gains for regional Australia. He was a long-standing member of the Cabinet National Security Committee, overseeing a significant strengthening of Australia’s national security through an increase in defence spending and a substantial boost to defence-ready troop numbers.

As Acting Prime Minister at the time, he steered the nation through the shattering terrorist attacks on the United States on 11th September 2001.He was also intimately involved in the decision to provide $1 billion in aid following the 2004 Indonesian tsunami and counts it as one of the government’s greatest achievements.

Whilst in office, Anderson, known as a man of simple Christian faith, sought to respect the dictum that another’s right to speak should always be defended, even if he disagreed with them.

Winston Marshall

Winston Marshall is host of The Winston Marshall Show, co-founder of ‘Dissident Dialogues’ festival of ideas and co-founder of ‘1573 Cigars’.

His musical career began in London as founder of the rock band Gobbler’s Knob and country/sleeze-rap outfit Captain Kick & The Cowboy Ramblers. As a session-player he toured with folk singer Laura Marling. In 2007 Winston co-founded folk-rock band Mumford & Sons. In their fourteen years together, the band won 2 Grammy Awards, 2 Brit Awards, an Ivor Novello and performed with the likes of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Willie Nelson and Elton John. In 2017 he released the techno-fusion album ‘Silk’ in collaboration with HVOB. His remix work includes Maggie Rogers and Jack Garrett.

His written work has been published by The Free Press, The Jewish Chronicle, The Spectator and The Daily Mail. Through 2022 and 2023 he hosted the podcast ‘Marshall Matters’ at The Spectator. He has featured on the BBC, Times Radio, LBC, Fox News, Fox Business News, Unherd, Triggernometry, Sky News Australia, GB News and The Daily Wire.

In 2021 he co-founded Hong Kong Link Up, a not-for-profit organization helping Hongkonger asylum seeker and BN(O) holders settle and assimilate in the UK.

2024 will also host the inaugural Dissident Dialogues festival of ideas, which Winston co-founded. The world’s leading intellectuals descend upon NYC for two days of debate, discourse and discovery.

Konstantin Kisin

Konstantin Kisin is a Sunday Times best-selling author, political commentator, and one of the world’s most popular podcasters. Since 2018, Kisin has been a co-host of one of Apple’s top ranked political podcasts, Triggernometry.

The show invites guests from across the political spectrum. They are united only in the belief that all views deserve to be heard. The show’s guests include Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, Bill Burr, Andrew Sullivan, Diana Fleischman, Louise Perry and Ben Shapiro.

Triggernometry’s success as an alternative media outlet has seen Konstantin Kisin become increasingly popular in mainstream political debate, both in the UK and USA. He has appeared on flagship TV shows like BBC Question Time, Real Time with Bill Maher and Tucker Carlson, as well as the Joe Rogan Experience and other popular podcasts.

Kisin has been a robust critic of certain sections of the right who sympathized with Russian leadership over the Ukraine invasion. He speaks about the importance of upholding Western values of liberalism, freedom of expression and viewpoint diversity. He expressed this political outlook in his 2022 book, An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West. The book draws upon his experience of growing up in the supposed socialist paradise of the late Soviet Union and his subsequent admiration for the Western way of life after moving to the UK with his family.

In early 2023, Kisin’s star rose further when his speech at the Oxford Union went viral. Arguing for the motion, Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far, he criticized the behavior of radical climate change activists and talked of the need for pragmatism in addressing climate change. The speech has since been viewed over 100 million times around the world.

David Berlinski

David Berlinski received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University and was later a postdoctoral fellow in mathematics and molecular biology at Columbia University. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Dr. Berlinski has authored works on systems analysis, differential topology, theoretical biology, analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of mathematics, as well as three novels.

He has also taught philosophy, mathematics and English at such universities as Stanford, Rutgers, the City University of New York and the Universite de Paris. In addition, he has held research fellowships at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) in France.

Recent articles by Dr. Berlinski have been featured in Commentary, Forbes ASAP, and the Boston Review. Two of his articles, “On the Origins of the Mind” (November 2004) and “What Brings a World into Being” (March 2001) have been anthologized in The Best American Science Writing 2005, edited by Alan Lightman (Harper Perennial), and The Best American Science Writing 2002, edited by Jesse Cohen, respectively.

He is author of numerous books, including A Tour of the Calculus (Pantheon 1996), The Advent of the Algorithm (2000, Harcourt Brace), Newton’s Gift (The Free Press 2000), The Secrets of the Vaulted Sky (Harcourt, October 2003), A Short History of Mathematics for the Modern Library series at Random House (2004), The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions (Crown Forum, 2008), and The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements (Basic Books, 2013).

Winston Marshall

He has also taught philosophy, mathematics and English at such universities as Stanford, Rutgers, the City University of New York and the Universite de Paris. In addition, he has held research fellowships at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) in France.

Recent articles by Dr. Berlinski have been featured in Commentary, Forbes ASAP, and the Boston Review. Two of his articles, “On the Origins of the Mind” (November 2004) and “What Brings a World into Being” (March 2001) have been anthologized in The Best American Science Writing 2005, edited by Alan Lightman (Harper Perennial), and The Best American Science Writing 2002, edited by Jesse Cohen, respectively.

He is author of numerous books, including A Tour of the Calculus (Pantheon 1996), The Advent of the Algorithm (2000, Harcourt Brace), Newton’s Gift (The Free Press 2000), The Secrets of the Vaulted Sky (Harcourt, October 2003), A Short History of Mathematics for the Modern Library series at Random House (2004), The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions (Crown Forum, 2008), and The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements (Basic Books, 2013).

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