Fred Durham is the Director of the C.S. Lewis Institute in Dallas, Texas. He has been a pastor for over 40 years serving in the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. During those years he has served as a District Superintendent, supervising over 60 churches and as the Assistant to the Bishop. Always active in community affairs, Fred has served as mayor of two of the cities where he has pastored, Winnsboro, TX and Trenton, TX.  He is also the founder and president of Alighieri Press, a ministry of publishing, speaking, and event sponsorship. Fred is a graduate of Southern Methodist University (B.A., 1970; MTS, 1973). He has been married for 51 years to his beautiful wife, Teresa. They have three wonderful grown children, one wonderful daughter-in-law, and seven even more wonderful grandchildren.