Steve Weidenkopf teaches at the Christendom College Graduate School of Theology, Virginia. He is the author of Light from Darkness: Nine Times the Catholic Church was in Turmoil--and Came Out Stronger than Before (2021); The Church and the Middle Ages: 1000-1378 (2020); Timeless: A History of the Catholic Church (2019); The Real Story of Catholic History: Answering Twenty Centuries of Anti-Catholic Myths (2017); and The Glory of the Crusades (2014) and a contributor to Religion and World Civilizations: How Faith Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present (2023) and The Palgrave Handbook of Religion and State, Volume II (2023). Steve is the creator and co-author of Epic: A Journey Through Church History and the author of the Early Church adult faith formation studies. Steve is a member of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, an international academic group dedicated to the field of crusading history. He is also a Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Steve and his wife live in Virginia and are blessed with six children and two grandchildren.