2009 Symposiums

January

30th: "A Christian Perspective: So What?"

  • Dr. Nick Lantinga

February

6th: "Humble Organizations"

  • Prof. Ross O'Brien

13th: "Reading, Writing, and Re-Integration: What's a Christian University For?"

  • Dr. David Naugle

20th: "In Praise of Baptist Colleges"

  • Dr. Michael Beaty

27nd: "Heaven is a Place on Earth: Why Everything You Do Matters to God"

  • Dr. Michael Wittmer

March 

6th: "The Aftermath of Sexual Assault: Helping Victims and Families Heal from Rape"

  • Dr. David Gushee

20th: "Planet Narnia"

  • Dr. Michael Ward

27th: "Teaching the Lord of the Rings: Why Tolkien is More than a Good Movie"

  • Dr. Philip Mitchell

April

3rd: "Writing Toward Grace and Beauty: A Proces of Faith"

  • Dr. Robert A. Fink

17th: "Until DIVORCE Do We Part"

  • DBU Panel Discussion

24th: "Detective Fiction, the Trinity, and the Creative Reader"

  • Dr. Chris Willerton

May

1st: "Preserving the Word of God: The Work of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts."

  • Dr. Daniel Wallace

September

11th: "Solomon the Scholar... But Something Greater Than Solomon is Here"

  • Dr. David Naugle

18th: "A Literary and Theological Review of Wm. Paul Young's The Shack"

  • Dr. Rose Collins
  • Dr. David Naugle
  • Prof. Paul Kim

25th: "Teaching the Language of Faith"

  • Dr. Steve Garber
  • Dr. Gideon Strauss

October

2nd: "The Humbling Truth of the Humility of Christ: Why the Second Person of the Trinity Became a Galilean Hillbilly"

  • Prof. Paul Kim

16th: "Heaven Making: Education and the Common Good"

  • Sara Triana

23rd: "Being Consumed: Money and Christian Desire - Two Responses to the Work of Theologian William T. Cavanaugh"

  • Prof. Jekabs Bikis
  • Dr. Philip Mitchell

30th: "A Dreadful Thing -- C.S. Lewis and the Experience of War."

  • Dr. Timothy Demy

November

6th: "Wholly Jesus"

  • Mark Foreman

13th: "Gospel Music: The Spiritual Roots of Rock 'n Roll"

  • Dr. Terry Fansler

20th: "Twilight Worship: Girl Meets God in Stephenie Meyer's Vampire Phenomenon"

  • Leigh Hickman

December

4th: "Is the Emergent/Emerging Church One of Substance or of Syle?"

  • Dr. Jim Lemmons
  • Dr. Norman Blackaby
  • Eric Kuykendall