​The FRC was conceived of by Tom Frost and founded by him in 2003 while he was in the research phase of his Ph.D. program in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He founded it for two primary reasons: first, because he believes that there is a need to learn about Christ and the Christian life, on the one hand, and to communicate about Christ and the Christian life, on the other hand, in an integrated way, that is, integrating all that we can learn from the special revelation of Scripture with all that we can learn from the general revelation of philosophy (And other fields when relevant; but philosophy is always relevant.); and second, because he believes that his life experiences have prepared him to at least play a part in fulfilling these needs by being a Biblically saturated, philosophically subtle, kind-hearted teacher of integrated truth, especially (but far from exclusively) as that truth relates to the foundational claims of the Christian faith.