Contact: Anthony Horvath, Athanatos Christian Ministries, 202-280-7971, director@athanatosministries.org

LA CROSSE, Wisc., April 19 /Christian Newswire/ -- Athanatos Christian Ministries is hosting its first annual apologetics conference May 7th-8th, 2010. The conference will cast a vision for promoting Christianity through the arts, and literature in particular. The conference is unique because it will be held entirely online, allowing anyone from around the world to attend and participate.

Website: www.onlineapologeticsconference.com.

Presenters at the conference include apologist Rob Bowman Jr, Dr. Corey Olsen (otherwise known at 'The Tolkien Professor') and intelligent design advocate Dr. Angus Menuge. Topics range from arguments for using the arts to advance the Kingdom of God to narrower issues such as the nature of 'myth' and the 'new literature' of film and television.

Anthony Horvath, the Executive Director of ACM, will be discussing "literary anti-apologetics" and how stories such as Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" and Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" series serve up objections to Christianity through the guise of fiction.

Speaking about the conference, Mr. Horvath says, "For centuries the Christian Church lead the way in supporting the arts. The Christian worldview was integrated into literature, music, and paintings. People could appreciate fine artistic expression and receive a positive impression of the Christian message at the same time. Christian artists were able to touch hearts in a way that theological arguments often did not. It is time for the Church to rediscover the arts and artists."

New technologies have allowed creative Christians a chance to carry out their vocation in a meaningful way. The Internet in particular has allowed talented Christian artists to reach people around the world.

Horvath explains, "The Internet has opened up many opportunities for artists but also many new challenges to the Church, so it is fitting that we hold this conference online. This allows us to connect authors, artists, pastors, and apologists together in 'one place' to hash out how we can deliberately use the arts to promote, explain, and defend Christianity."

Registration for the conference is $35 with students able to register for $25. Each conference participant will receive a free copy of either GK Chesterton's "Orthodoxy" or Pascal's "Pensees."

Sessions begin at 9 a.m. CST on Friday and Saturday, May 7th-8th and run throughout the morning. Recordings of the sessions will be available for download for conference registrants.

To register and get more information visit www.onlineapologeticsconference.com.

Anthony Horvath is available for interviews at director@athanatosministries.org.