2014 Symposiums

January 

31st: "Switchfoot and Saint Augustine"

  • Dr. David Naugle, DBU Faculty

February 

7th: "Introduction to the Study Bible, The Voice (Part of which is in the form of a screenplay - published by Thomas Nelson)"

  • David Capes, HBU (Houston Baptist)

14th: "Christ and Culture in Light of Paul's use of Jeremiah"

  • Paul Wolfe Headmaster at The Cambridge School of Dallas, DBU alum

21st: "The Good Watcher: A Theology of Movies" - with special reference to the Hunger Games and Catching Fire"

  • Alissa Wilkinson, King's College NYC, Keynote Speaker in annual DBU Spring 2014 Student Conference

28th: "Søren Kierkegaard's Critique of the Modern Approach to Religion"

  • David Diener, Taylor University and the Covenant Classical School of Fort Worth

March 

7th: "Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good"

  • Stever Garber, Washington [D.C.] Institute

21st: "Faust in the ABQ: Walter White and the [Im]Possibility of Redemption in Breaking Bad"

  • Dr. Rebecca Dark, DBU Faculty

28th: "Christian Economics: Policy and Personhood"

  • Panel

April

4th: "How to Write Home When You're Lost in the Wild: Telling the Truth about Suffering"

  • Paul Willis, Westmont College

11th: "Being Given Orthodoxy: G.K. Chesterton and the Heart of Autobiography"

  • Dr. Phillip Mitchell, DBU Faculty

25th: "Humility in Learning and Education"

  • Kyle Queal, Great Hearts Charter Schools
  • Bentley Craft, Headmaster at West Dallas Christian School

September

5th: "Faith and Law"

  • Mark Lanier, Houston, Lanier Law Firm

12th: "Economics and Ethics"

  • Nathan McClellan, Regent College, Vancouver, B.C. - Canada alumnus, now a Phd at SMU

19th: "Consumer Culture, Wealth, and Christian Responsibility"

  • Scott Shiffer, DBU alumnus, now Criswell College

26th: "Happiness or Joy?"

  • David Naugle, DBU Faculty

October

3rd: "Giftedness, Vocation, Work"

  • Bill Hendricks, The Giftedness Center, Dallas, TX

17th: "Why Business Is Important to God and God is Important to Business"

  • Bill Peel, LETU (LeTourneau Univ)

24th: "Mexico’s Day of the Dead: A Christian Perspective"

  • Deborah Balyeat, DBU
  • Panel

31st: "BAM! Tearing Down the Divide - A New Movement in Missions"

  • Ross O’Brien, DBU, “Business as Mission” (BAM)

November

7th: "The Way of Images: Austin Farrer, C. S. Lewis, and the Apocalypse"

  • Dr. Phillip Mitchell, DBU Faculty

14th: "Biblical Epigraphs: The Bible Inside and Outside of Literature"

  • Jared Griffin, DBU alumnus, now professor at the University of Alaska, Kodiac

21st: "To Tao or not to Tao: Heroes and Villains in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia"

  • Rose Cothren, retired DBU Prof., now Adjunct

December

5th: "Director Frank Capra & His Vision of the Kingdom of Heaven"

  • Aften Wilson Thiessen, Regent College, Vancouver, B.C. Canada alumna, and DBU alumna