2007 Symposiums

January

26th: “'A Celebrity Faculty, a Malignant Curriculum, and a Peer Pressure Grading Scale: The University of Popular Culture and Christian Higher Education in Contention.”

  • Dr. David Naugle

February

2nd: "500 Days in Baghdad: A DBU Graduate Reflects on Her Experience in Iraq."

  • Erika Wiegand

9th: "Here for Humanity: Introducing the Movie "Amazing Grace" on the Life and Work of William Wilberforce"

  • Kevin Belmonte

16th: "Liturgy for Suspicious Protestants"

  • Dr. D.H. Williams

23th: "Where Your Deep Gladness and the World's Deep Hunger Meet: Reflections on Faith, Vocation, and Culture."

  • Dr. Steven Garber

March 

2nd: "Bad to Good: On Science and the Search for Truth in Business Ethics."

  • Professor Ross O'Brien

9th: "A National House of Prayer for All People'-A Historical Architectural, Religious and Cultural Look at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C."

  • Robert Whitfield

23rd: "Why There Really IS a War between Science and Christianity: C.S. Lewis Vision of a "Repentant Science"

  • Ken Myers

30th: "Communicating God in Art."

  • Dawn Waters Baker

April

13th: "Master's of Metaphor: Faith and Creative Writing"

  • Al Haley

20th: "Reviving Interest in Books and Reading in an Age of Blogging and MySpace"

  • Dr. John Jaeger

27th: "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God' Revisited- A Dramatic Presentation: Jonathan Edwards and His In/Famous Sermon in Context"

  • Professor Todd Von Helms

September

7th: "Der Anti-Christ"

  • Dr. David Naugle

14th: “Plato and the Bible”

  • Dr. Robert E. Wood

21st: Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?

  • Dr. Tom Bush

28th: “The Future of China: Communist? Confucian? Cynical? Christian?”

  • Bob Fu Xiqiu

October

12th: “On Earth, As It Is In Advertising: From Commercial Hype to Gospel Hope”

  • Sam Van Eman

19th: “Art, Architecture, and Technology: Perspectives of Martin Heidegger”

  • Todd A. Kappelman

26th: “Ike’s Final Battle: The Road to Little Rock and the Challenge of Equality: Eisenhower and the Civil Rights Movement”

  • Kasey S. Pipes

November

2nd: "Chasing Sophia: Reclaiming the Lost Wisdom of Jesus”

  • Lilian Calles Barger

9th: “Faith on the Battlefield: The Great Revival During the War Between the States”

  • John Dwyer

16th: “Moving Beyond ‘Mere Christianity’ in the University: Why C. S. Lewis and H. Richard Niebuhr Were Wrong"

  • Philip Mitchell

30th: “Presiding: Mary Stripling (English), Keith Rosenbaum (Psychology), Ross O'Brien (Economics), and Richard Baca (Music)”

  • Philip Mitchell