Melissa Cain Travis is a philosopher, science and religion scholar, and international lecturer with a special interest in the  intersection of science, philosophy, and Christianity in the Western tradition. She is the coauthor of The Reconstruction Project: Recovering Truth and Rebuilding Faith (forthcoming, B&H Academic)j and the author of Thinking God’s Thoughts: Johannes Kepler and the Miracle of Cosmic Comprehensibility (2022) and Science and the Mind of the Maker: What the Conversation Between Faith and Science Reveals About God (2018). She has contributed to multiple edited volumes including Understanding Christian Apologetics: Five Methods for Defending the Faith edited by Timothy Paul Jones (releasing August 2025) and The Story of the Cosmos: How the Heavens Declare the Glory of God  edited by Paul Gould (2019). Her first publications were the Young Defenders apologetics storybooks (Apologia Press), which are currently out of print but available on iTunes. She is a Fellow of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, a course instructor at DiscoveryU.org, and a contributor to Christian Research Institute, The Worldview Bulletin, and Shadowlands Dispatch.