The Boniface Award –
Permaneamus In Iustitia
Recognizing a public figure who has stood faithfully for Christian truth, beauty, and goodness with grace. | Established 2019.
2024
Megan Basham
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Megan Basham is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, a culture reporter for The Daily Wire and a frequent contributor to Morning Wire. In her previous role as an entertainment editor and podcast co-host for World Magazine, she interviewed numerous A-list celebrities. She has also written for The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and Townhall. Her book, Beside Every Successful Man, was published by Random House. Her newest book, Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda, released in July 2024.
2023
Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr.
Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr. serves as president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary – the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the world.
Dr. Mohler has been recognized by influential publications, such as Time and Christianity Today, as a leader among American evangelicals. In fact, Time named him the “reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement in the U.S.”
Dr. Mohler hosts two programs: “The Briefing,” a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview; and “Thinking in Public,” a series of conversations with the day’s leading thinkers. He also blogs regularly at albertmohler.com.
2022
Voddie Baucham
Dr. Voddie T. Baucham, Jr. is a husband, father, former pastor, author, professor, conference speaker, and church planter. He currently serves as Dean of Theology at African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia. Voddie makes the Bible clear and demonstrates the relevance of God’s word to everyday life, doing so without compromising the centrality of Christ and the gospel. Those who hear him preach find themselves both challenged and encouraged.
Dr. Baucham holds degrees from Houston Baptist University (BA in Christianity/BA in Sociology), Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div.), Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (D.Min.), an honorary degree from Southern California Seminary (D.D.), and additional post-graduate study at the University of Oxford, England (Regent’s Park College).
Learn more at RepairingTheRuins.org.
Read more about Voddie Baucham’s book Fault Lines on ClassicalDifference.com.
2021
Michael Farris
Michael P. Farris is president and CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom. This award was presented to Farris in light of his continual sacrifices and tireless efforts to stand for freedom and religious liberty as an author, speaker, educator, and lawyer. Farris was founding president of both the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA – 1983) and Patrick Henry College (PHC – 2000) and continues to serve both. He has argued before the appellate courts of 13 states, eight federal circuit courts of appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court, and has testified many times before both the House and Senate. He and his wife, Vickie, have 10 children and many grandchildren.
If we want to preserve our liberty, it is up to us to know what is going on, to know the Constitution, to know these limitations on the power of Congress and to insist that our leaders obey. –Michael Farris
2020
Rosaria Butterfield
Award mailed due to remote conference during Covid-19.
Rosaria Butterfield is the author of The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert, which tells the story, with outspoken honesty and unwavering love, of her transformation from the LGBT lifestyle to Christianity. She boldly speaks truth with hospitality and grace. This award was presented in light of the tremendous sacrifices she has made in her career and personal life to continue telling her story and spreading the Gospel. Her other books include Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ and The Gospel Comes with a House Key. Rosaria writes about sexuality, identity, Christian hospitality and community, and seeks to encourage everyone in faithful Christian living and service. She is married to Kent Butterfield, pastor of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Durham, where she homeschools their four children.
2019
Douglas Wilson
The inaugural award was given in light of Wilson’s regular challenges in the media, in books, from the pulpit, and online to the liberalization of the church and his faithful work in founding organizations that bring light, rather than simply curse the darkness. In addition to his founding work with the ACCS, he helped found Logos School in Moscow, ID, Greyfriars seminary, New Saint Andrews College, the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, Canon Press, and Christ Church, Moscow. Wilson was not involved in the creation or selection of this award.
About the Boniface Award
Each year, the ACCS recognizes the actions of a Christian leader who steps forward and stands faithfully for Christian truth, goodness, or beauty against the prevailing pressure of our culture.
Like St. Boniface, recipients chose to publicly speak or act on a matter that could cost them personally. The award is presented at our annual ACCS conference, Repairing the Ruins, in June of each year.
To be nominated, the recipient will have – on one or more specific occasions – taken a stand for the Christian worldview, even in the face of negative public opinion. The recipient engaged in this action without bitterness and in a godly, grace-filled way.
This award is presented with a gift and a commissioned bronze statue of St. Boniface, sized for display in a home or office.
We hope that this recognition will help Christendom appreciate the truth that lies within the Gospel, even when the spirit of this age rejects it.
Who was St. Boniface?
St. Boniface was an 8th-century Christian missionary to the pagan German people who cut down a sacred oak tree dedicated to a pagan god near the town of Fritzlar, Germany.
As he began to cut, some say a great wind blew the tree down as the townspeople looked on. They expected the act to bring certain calamity on Boniface, who was unharmed.
Seeing this, the people were converted. This legendary bravery made Boniface a singular character willing to stand alone to root out paganism from the culture. Boniface went on to preside over all of the missionary territories in Germany east of the Rhine river, and his work is memorialized in Germany to this day.
