Fall 2024 Symposiums

6th: Reading in Community: Three Profs, One Book, and the Quest to Live Christianly

• Dr. Mary Flickner, Director of General Education, DBU; Dr. Katie Hargrave, Professor of Developing a Christian Mind, DBU; and Prof. Sam Still, Assistant Director of the University Honors Program, DBU.

13th: God Among the gods: The Christian God of Compassion and the Classical Alternatives

• Dr. Kimlyn J. Bender, Professor of Christian Theology, Baylor University.

20th: Living in the Unknown: An Asian Faith that Yields

• Philip Koo, Director of Leadership Residency, Christ Chapel Bible Church.

27th: Value Lost and Value Regained

• Dr. Rick Martinez, Professor of Entrepreneurship, DBU.

4th: Religion, Politics, and Civil Discourse

• Dr. Jack Goodyear, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, DBU.

18th: Shakespeare Asks to Meet My Mother

• Jeanne Murray Walker, Poet, Playwright, Emeritus Professor, University of Delaware.

25th: “Am I in Pain?” Consciousness, AI, and the Imago Dei

• Dr. Keith Loftin, Professor of Philosophy, Director of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, DBU.

1st: Fearfully and Synthetically Made? Reproductive Technology and Christian Bioethics

• Dr. Jonathan Cooper, Biology Department Chair, DBU.

8th: Beauty, Imagination, and Wonder in the Space of the Human Heart

• Dr. Junius Johnson, Executive Director, Junius Johnson Academics.

15th: Reforming Christmas: The Protestant Worship Debate and You

• Dr. Jim Lemons, Professor of Theological Studies and Leadership, DBU.

22nd: Faith, Friendship, and Fantasy: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis’s Mutual Influence

• Dr. Holly Ordway, Cardinal Francis George Professor of Faith and Culture, Word on Fire Institute.

6th: "The Lightning Made Eternal as the Light": Augustine and Chesterton on History and Presence

• Dr. Philip Irving Mitchell, Director of the University Honors Program and Associate Professor of English, DBU.