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Scott Powell

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Scott Powell is Director of Scriptural Theology at the Aquinas Institute for Catholic Thought, an outreach to the University of Colorado in Boulder. He is also an adjunct professor at Denver’s Augustine Institute who has been teaching theology and the Scriptures to all ages for over a decade. He and his wife, Annie, are the directors and founders of Camp Wojtyla, a Catholic adventure program for youth based in the Colorado Rockies. Scott is currently a PhD candidate studying Scripture at Maryvale Institute/Liverpool Hope University in England.  He, his wife, and their two beautiful children live near Boulder, Colorado.

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