2023 Symposiums
February
3rd: “Nolo Episcopari: The Leadership Wisdom of J.R.R. Tolkien”
- Dr. Mark Cook, Associate Professor of Leadership, DBU
10th: “Judging What is Good: Augustine and the Spiritual Role of the Bodily Senses”
- Tavner Threatt, Instructor of Modern Literature, Founders Classical Academy
17th: “17th Four Challenges in Modern Healthcare”
- Dr. Lee Mills, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Community Care
24th: “The Church and its Critics: Is Organized Religion Evil?”
- Dr. Jeffrey Kramer, Instructor of Chemistry, Grapevine Christian School and DBU
March
3rd: “How We Spend Our Days is, of Course, How We Spend Our Lives: The Formative Power of Digital Practices”
- Dr. Felicia Wu Song, Professor of Sociology at Westmont College
10th: “The Arts and New Creation: A Panel Discussion”
- Dr. Jodi Grimes, Associate Professor of English; Mr. Jim Hutchinson, Associate Professor of Communication and Fine Art; Dr. John McCuin, Professor of Physics and Mathematics; Dr. Jennifer Weaver, Associate Professor of Music, DBU
24th: “The Case for a Christian Humanism”
- Mary Flickner, Coordinator of Developing the Christian Mind, Sam Still, Assistant Director, University Honors Program, DBU
31st: “Icons, Orthodoxy, and Spirituality: Writing about Faith”
- Susan Cushman- Author of Pilgrim Interrupted, Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimer’s
April
14th: “Ambition and Contentment In a World of Creative Destruction ”
- Dr. Ross O’Brien, Director of the Center for Business as Mission and Dr. Rick Martinez, Professor of Entrepreneurship, DBU
21st: “The Intellectual, Moral, and Civic Value of Science and Science Education”
- Dr. Mark Bloom, Professor of Biology, DBU
28th: “God is Not Robbed’ Dorothy L. Sayers, the Philosophy of Time, and the Problem of Evil”
- Dr. Philip Irving Mitchell, Director of the University Honors Program, DBU
September
8th: Putting Together A Porcelain Doll: Librettist and Composer in Collaboration
- Dr. Brent Newsom, Associate Professor of English, Oklahoma Baptist University; Dr. Jim Vernon, composer
15th: Repurposing Failures: Two Tales of the Drugs Thalidomide and Viagra
- Dr. Dong-Jae Jun, Research Scientist, University of Texas Southwestern
22nd: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Literary Leadership
- Dr. Mary Nelson, Director of the Ph.D. in Leadership Studies, DBU
29th: The Moral Responsibility of Graphic Design
- Jim Hutchinson, Associate Professor of Communication and Art, DBU; Jeremy Honea, Creative Director, I Am Second; and Ken Koester, Assistant Professor of Digital Art and Graphic Design, DBU
October
13th: Wandering toward God, Thinking through Intellectual Doubt and the Christian Life
- Dr. Jan Daehnert, Director of Ministry Guidance, DBU; Dr. Keith Loftin, Director of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program, DBU; and Dr. Dana Wicker, Director of Master of Arts in Christian Counseling, DBU
20th: “Let Us Make a Name for Ourselves”: Paradise Lost, the Tower of Babel, and the Myth of Modern Progress
- Dr. Michael Whiting, Assistant Professor of Christian History and Leadership, DBU
27th: The Rule of Saint Benedict: A Timeless Tool for Fruitful Living
- Dr. Katie Hargrave, Middle School Principal, Pantego Christian Academy
November
3rd: “If I Only Had a Brain”: The Rise of AI and its Impact on Healthcare
- Dr. Jonathan Cooper, Assistant Professor of Biology, DBU
10th: The Christian Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
- Dr. Dax Bennington, Director of Campus Ministry and Evangelization, University of North Texas
17th: Reflections on the Writing of Frederick Buechner: Memoirist, Essayist, Prophet, “Novelist and Theologian of the Lost and Found”
- Dr. Michael Williams, Senior Professor of History, DBU
December
1st: “The Arrow of God’s Time Flies Both Ways”: Dorothy L. Sayers, Entropy, and Evil
- Dr. Philip Irving Mitchell, Director of the University Honors Program, DBU