L. MICHAEL SPATH, D.MIN., PH.D.

5615 Old Mill Road 
Fort Wayne, IN  46807

260 456 8920                      lmspath@msn.com

Dr. Michael Spath is a Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Dr. Spath specializes in Comparative Religion, focusing particularly on Islam and Muslim-Christian Dialogue, and was a 1998-1999 Fulbright and National Education Security Program Scholar affiliated to the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (RIIFS) in Amman. He is a founding board member of the newly-formed Institute for the Study of Christian Zionism in Chicago, which explores the dangerous influence of Christian Zionism on American religion and politics; he is also the Director of the Middle East Peace Education Project, that builds bridges between Christians in Palestine and Israel with those in the West.  Dr. Spath is a popular lecturer and teacher nationally and internationally, speaking on issues of comparative spirituality, religion and politics in the Middle East, Christians in the Holy Land, and religion and violence.