Terry Lindvall (PhD, University of Southern California) occupies the C.S. Lewis Chair of Communication and Christian Thought at Virginia Wesleyan University. He has taught on communication, theology, and laughter (and film) at Duke University Divinity School, Regent University, and was the Mason Fellow at the College of William and Mary. He has published fourteen books including Sanctuary Cinema (award-winning), God Mocks, Divine Film Comedies, and Animated Parables. He recently produced the documentary feature film Hollywood, Teach us to Pray based on his book God on the Big Screen. He once pretended for over four years to be a president at Regent University.