Maxwell Goss was born in Detroit, Michigan and grew up in Charlevoix, a resort town in northern Michigan.  He earned his B.A. at Western Michigan University, where he was named Presidential Scholar, WMU's highest academic distinction, and was President of InterVarsity Fellowship, the largest organization on campus.  After graduation, he served in InterVarsity for four years, building campus networks, directing an urban outreach program, and speaking frequently at conferences and events.  Max pursued graduate study in philosophy at WMU and Oxford University, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 2006.  In 2009, Max received his J.D. cum laude from the University of Notre Dame Law School, where he served as Executive Articles Editor of the Notre Dame Law Review.  At Notre Dame Law School, he served in the Legal Aid Clinic, completed the Trial Advocacy program, and founded the Law and Humanities Forum.  Max has taught logic, ethics, and the history of Western thought at Texas, Concordia University, St. Edward's University, and WMU.  He has received fellowships and awards from the Russell Kirk Center, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Institute for Humane Studies, Acton Institute, and the University of Texas.  Max's scholarly articles include "Temporal Belief: The Experiential View," in Routledge Major Work: The Philosophy of Time (N. Oaklander, ed.).  He has written for popular journals such as First Things, New Criterion, World, and Salisbury Review.  Max delivers scholarly lectures and popular talks on an array of legal, philosophical,  apologetic, and theological topics.  Max is an attorney with the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. in San Antonio, Texas, where he practices commercial litigation. 

Max is married with four children, and attends St. Peter's Catholic Church in San Antonio, Texas.