When I first met Melissa Cain Travis, she was tucked away at a corner table in a Houston café, a rust-colored scarf around her neck. I recognized her from pictures, but she didnâ??t look like the academic Iâ??d seen lecturing in videos. She was more like a mom-friend Iâ??d meet for an afternoon play date, where the two of us sit on a park bench and try to have a serious conversation in between wiping one kidâ??s snotty nose and grabbing another before he digs in the dog poop under the slide. She seemed accessible and human.
I interviewed Travis as well as her colleagues, for CTâ??s recent cover story on women in apologetics. Sheâ??s part of a department at Houston Baptist University that has the highest number of women of any apologetics program in the nation. Like most Her.meneutics readers (and writers), she defies stereotypes and easy categories. Sheâ??s a stay-at-home mom and a scholar. She homeschools her two boys and is working on a PhD. She leans toward complementarianism but spends most of her time as a teacher-speaker whoâ??s passionate about drawing women into apologetics leadership in the church.
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