2021 Symposiums
February
5th: “God on the Brain: Exploring Neuroscience and Faith”
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Dr. Joan Davis - Professor of Counseling and Psychology; Dr. Kenneth Gore – Professor of Biblical Studies; Dr. Curtis Lee – Professor of Biology, DBU
12th: “A Hermeneutical Analysis of the Thematic Contents of Pentecostal Songs of Prayer among the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria”
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Dr. Jim Hutchinson - Associate Professor of Art and Communication and Director, and Dr. John McCuin – Professor of Physics and Mathematics, DBU
19th: “What is Realism in Art?”;
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Dr. Gail Wallace, Professor of Sociology, DBU
26th: “Art and the Covenant: An Introduction to Biblical Aesthetics”
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Dr. Luke Ferreter, Professor of English, Baylor University
March
5th: “Nothing Is More Important than Friendship”
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The Rev. Canon Victor Lee Austin, Theologian-in-Residence, Church of the Incarnation
12th: Spring Break
19th: ““A Friend of Truth Itself”: Augustine on the Role and Value of Civic Friendship”
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Dr. Coleman Ford, Director of Professional Doctoral Studies, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
26th: “Questions of Identity: Race and Reception in Argentina”
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Dr. Karen Alexander, Associate Professor of English and Spanish, DBU
April
9th: "Putting K-12 High-Stakes Testing in Context: A Discussion in Equity vs. Equality"
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Dr. Chris Jackson, Assistant Superintendent of Research, Data, and School Improvement, Cleburne ISD
16th: “Creativity and Corporate America: Making a Way for a Life of Writing”
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DOXA, Sarah Wells, Independent Writer
23rd: “The Mission of Business: Theory and Practice”
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Sponsored by the Center for Business as Mission in partnership with The Lion’s Den DFW
30th: “Ethics, Mysticism, and Sacred Traditions: C.S. Lewis’s Loves and Themes in the History of Christian Spirituality”
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Dr. Michael Whiting, Director of Written Content, Assistant Professor of Christian History and Leadership, DBU
September
10th: “Reading the News in an Age of Outrage: The Blessed Man as a Rooted Tree”
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Dr. Jeffrey Bilbro, Associate Professor of English, Grove City College
17th: “Public Intellectuals and the Common Good: A Panel Discussion”
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Dr. David Cook; Dr. Mary Nelson; & Dr. Robert Sullivan
24th: “Tending Gardens: A Biblical Metaphor for Accessing the Good, the True, and the Beautiful”
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Professor Mary Flickner, DCM Coordinator, DBU
October
1st: “Coping with COVID-19 Variants and the Post-Pandemic Impact”
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Dr. Dong-Jae Jun, Research Scientist, UT Southwestern Medical Center
15th: “What is Realism in Art?”
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Dr. Jim Hutchinson, Associate Professor of Art and Communication; & Dr. John McCuin, Professor of Physics and Mathematics
22nd: “Middle-Earth and the Modern World: Learning from Tolkien’s Modern Reading"
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Holly Ordway, Visiting Professor of Apologetics, Houston Baptist University & Cardinal Francis Fellow of Faith and Culture for the Word on Fire Institute
29nd: “It’s in our DNA: Genetic Testing, Gene Editing, and Human Dignity"
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Jonathan Cooper, Biology Department Chair, DBU; Dr. Deborah Hinson, Professor of Biology, DBU; & Dr. Travis Dickinson, Professor of Philosophy, DBU
November
5th: “C.S. Lewis’s The Four Loves and Pursuing Christian Holism”
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Dr. Michael Whiting, Director of Written Content, Assistant Professor of Christian History and Leadership, DBU
12th: “Baptists and Social Justice: The Courage of Fannie Lou Hamer and Leslie Lee Gwaltney”
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Dr. Michelle Henry & Dr. Mike Williams
19th: “Baptists and Church-State Relations: The Conviction of John Mason Peck and J.M. Dawson”
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Dr. Brian Franklin, Associate Director for the Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University & Dr. Jack Goodyear, Dean of the Cook School of Leadership, DBU
December
3rd: “The Sage and the Saint: The Development of Tradition in T.S. Eliot”
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Dr. Philip Mitchell, Director of the University Honors Program, DBU