Ron Choong, an ordained Presbyterian minister, founded the Academy for Christian
Thought (ACT) in 2002. He read English law, the natural sciences, international
relations, the humanities and theology in Great Britain & the United
States. He received his law
degree (LLB Hons) from the University of London in the same year that he
graduated from the British Open University with a B.A. in science and
economics. After serving chambers in international law, he began service as a
missionary evangelist in New York with International Students, Inc. In 1996, he
attended Princeton Seminary where he graduated with an M.Div. in 1999 and a
Th.M. (philosophical theology) in 2000. Then he began an S.T.M. at Yale in
Islamics and Medieval Philosophy as well as a Ph.D. at Princeton Seminary under
the direction of Professor J. Wentzel van Huyssteen. He completed his S.T.M. in
2004 and expects to complete the Ph.D. in April 2007.
In 2002, Ron
founded ACT in New York City—an independent research and training resource for
Christian apologetics with reference to science, philosophy and world
religions. He also conducts a
summer preaching and teaching ministry in Asia. His research interests include
the emergence of moral cognition in light of the neurology of consciousness. He was selected to participate in the CTNS-STARS
conference "Evolution, ET, and the Significance of Life in the
Universe" from January 11-15, 2007.