2006 Symposiums

February

3rd: "Johnny Cash and the Greatest Commandments: Reflections on Reordered Love."

  • Dr. David Naugle

10th: "Delving Deeper into the integration of Faith and Learning: Examples in the Applied Sciences."

  • Dr. David Ross

17th: "What am I going to do when I grow up? Reflections of a DCM Student on a Theology of Work and Vocation."

  • Grace Blake

24th: "Revenge of the Aesthetic: The Decline and Re-emergence of Beauty."

  • Dr. William Edgar

March 

10th: "Science or Religion? A Report on Intelligent Design."

  • Dr. Deanna Noyes

24th: "I am Bound for Promised Land: The History and Heritage of Gospel Music in Texas."

  • Mr. Randy Wills

31st: "Jesus is Coming - Are you Ready? Eschatology and Ethics"

  • Dr. Joseph Matos

April

7th: "A Protestant Critique of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ."

  • Dr. Bob Garrett

21st: "Capitalism, Competition, and Christianity."

  • Prof. Jekabs Bikis

28th: "Christianity and the Holocaust: Lessons and Legacies Sixty Years Later."

  • Dr. David Gushee

September

8th: “'Happy is a Yuppie Word.' Or is it a Christian Concept and a Moral Obligation?”

  • Dr. David Naugle

15th: "A Christian Scholar Abroad: Prof. Sims Reflects on His Time as a Fulbright Scholar in Latvia"

  • Dr. Dale B. Sims

22nd: "Shows About Nothing: Nihilism in Popular Culture From the Exorcist to Seinfeld and Beyond."

  • Dr. Thomas Hibbs

29th: "Models of Service: Comparing the Leadership Styles of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King"

  • Mr. Bob Moore

October

13th: "Who Put the Fire Out? Rekindling the Longing to Know."

  • Dr. Esther Meek

20th: "Ordained to Defend the Common Good: Soldiering, the Just War Tradition, and the War on Terror."

  • Mr. Joe Brewer

27th: "When the Bullets are Real! Christian Spirituality in the Vocation of Salesmanship."

  • Scott Hagood

November

3rd: "The Figure in the Carpet: Locating Character Formation in Christian Higher Education."

  • Philip Mitchell

10th: "Christian Higher Education in a Global Context: Prospects and Opportunities."

  • Dr. Daryl McCarthy

17th: "Womanliness."

  • Dr. Deirdre LaNoue

December

1st: "Are Women Human? Reflections on Dorothy Sayers and Her Other Writings."

  • Ms. Marilyn Auvermann