2016 Symposiums

February 

5th: "Purpose Centered Leadership: The Rocket-Fuel for Exceptional Leadership"

  • Grey Hoff, DBU and Pepperdine PHD candidate

12th: "Decatur Baptist College"

  • Mike Williams, DBU Professor of History

19th: "Chronicling Performing and Visual Arts in the Southwest: Bywaters Special Collections at SMU, with Special Emphasis on Greer Garson"

  • Sam Ratcliffe, SMU

26th: "The Political Disciple: A Theology of Public Life"

  • Vince Bacote, Wheaton College

March 

4th: "Life at the Table"

  • Sandra Lewis

11th: "A Full Concert with a Few Tales About the Arts"

  • Crystal and Will Yates

April

1st: "Craftsmanship"

  • Brent Hull, Fort Worth

8th: "Poetry"

  • Doxa Conf. Erin McGraw, Ohio State University

15th: "Grief: Living With Loss"

  • Verdell Krisher

22nd: "Monsters and Metaphors: Austin Farrer, C.S. Lewis, and the War within our Language"

  • Philip Mitchell, DBU Associate Professor of English

29th: "Biblical Worldview"

  • Kenady Shope, DBU Student

September

9th: "Music"

  • Jennie Riddle, Composer of “Revelation Song”

16th: "Empire Criticism: Isn’t Jesus Lord and Not Caesar?"

  • Dr. Joe Matos, DBU

23nd: "In the Beginning God: Trinitarian Foundations of a Christian Worldview"

  • Dr. Michael Whiting, DBU

30th: "History and Philosophy of U.S. Community Colleges"

  • Dr. Rodney Garrett, DBU

October

14th: "The Sword of the Lord: The War Books of Three Christian Historians"

  • Dr. Philip Mitchell, DBU

21st: "Twisters and Tweets: The American Red Cross Use of Social Media as Civic Response to Natural Disasters"

  • Dr. Danny Rose, DBU
  • Dr. Melissa Newman, Point Loma Nazarene University

28th: "Slavery, Missions, and the Formation of the Southern Baptist Convention"

  • Dr. Brian Franklin, SMU (DBU graduate)

November

4th: "The Good of Politics"

  • Dr. Jim Skillen, Calvin College

11th: "Apologetics"

  • Ratio Christi Panel

18th: "G. K. Chesterton"

  • Dr. Susan Hanssen, UD

December

2nd: "Transforming Vision: Shaping a Christian Worldview"

  • Briana Kukyendall, DBU Student