2017 Symposiums

February 

3rd: "Nominalism and Mrs. Noah, For Real?"

  • Dr. Rebecca Dark, DBU

10th: "Climate Change"

  • Dr. John McCuin, DBU

17th: "Beauty and Truth"

  • Dr. Greg Garrett, Author and Baylor University Professor

24th: "On Painting"

  • Dawn Waters Baker, DBU Alumni and Artist

March 

3rd: "Post-Humanity and Cyborgs"

  • Ben Jones, DBU Alumni

10th: "Written by the Finger of God: C. S. Lewis and a Creaturely Metaphysic"

  • Dr. Philip Mitchell, DBU Honors Program Director

24th: "An Introduction to Francis Schaeffer"

  • Nancy Pearcey

31st: "Background to the Uptown Band's Song on the Psalms"

  • Justin Brooks, DBU Alumni and Uptown Contemporary Music Director at Church of the Incarnation

April

7th: "Grief: My Story"

  • Guy Delcambre, Author

21st: "Latino and Latina Perspectives on Church and Theology"

  • Justo Gonzales, Historian and Theologian

28th: "Review of Hacksaw Ridge and Silence films"

  • Leigh Hickman, DBU

September

8th: "Finding Home: Mile Markers Among the World Religions"

  • Dr. Russ Bowers, Author

15th: "Psalm 96"

  • Dr. Ramesh Richard, Professor of Global Theological Engagement & Pastoral Ministries at Dallas Theological Seminary

22nd: "Dietrich Hildebrand and Aesthetics"

  • Christopher Haley, Director of Publications & Marketing, Hildebrand Project

29th: "Why College Matters to God"

  • Dr. Rick Ostrander, Vice President for Academic Affairs & Professional Programs, Council for Christian Colleges & Universities

October

7th: Fall Break

13th: "Ratio Christi Panel: The Inevitable Context of Christ's Lordship in Philosophy"

  • Dallas Cagle
  • Vince Pena
  • Haley Henderson

20th: "Martin Luther and the Reformation of the Family"

  • Dr. Michael Whiting, DBU Professor of Christian History & Leadership

27th: "The Reformation at 500 and its Legacy"

  • Dr. Mike Williams, DBU Professor of History

November

3rd: "The Separations of Churches and States in the United States, 1776-1833"

  • Dr. Brian Franklin, Associate Director of the SMU Center for Presidential History

10th: "Economics for Widows and Orphans"

  • Dr. Sergiy Saydometov, DBU Associate Dean in College Business, Assistant Professor of Finance
  • Dr. Dave Arnott, DBU Professor of Management

17th: "Eastern Thought in a Christian Perspective"

  • Mamo Ishida, DBU Director of International Student Engagement, Director of East Asia Studies

December

1st: "Good, As It Ripens': C.S. Lewis, Austin Farrer and the Call to Sanctity"

  • Dr. Phillip Mitchell, DBU Honors Program Director