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2006 - 2007 Lectures


Completed Events 2006-2007


Shakespeare's Tempest and the Miseducation of American Youth, Dr. Anthony Esolen, Providence College (Professor of English). Event summary. Lecture MP3.

International Journalists' Forum on Intelligent Design, Denyse O'Leary (Canadian journalist based in Toronto and author of By Design or by Chance?) and Mustafa Akyol (freelance journalist from Istanbul, Turkey). Event Summary. Lecture MP3. Q&A MP3.

The Pope and Islam, Mustafa Akyol (freelance journalist from Istanbul, Turkey), with a response by Dr. Terry Nichols (Professor of Theology, University of St. Thomas). Event Summary. Lecture MP3. Q&A MP3.

What America Can Learn From Secular Europe: Reflections of a Transatlantic Christian Thinker, Udo Middelmann (Francis A. Schaeffer Fellow, MacLaurin Institute). Event summary. Lecture MP3. Q&A MP3.

God and Morality, Dr. Richard Swinburne, University of Oxford (Emeritus Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion). Event summary. Lecture MP3.

Flannery O'Connor and the Fundamentalist South, Dr. Ralph Wood, Baylor University (University Professor of Theology and Literature). Event summary. Lecture MP3. Q&A MP3.

Mars Hill Students event: Debate on Church & State: Does the First Amendment Require the Separation of Church and State?, Charles Shreffler, Mohrman & Kaardal P.A. and Edward Tabash, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Event summary. Debate MP3 Part I. Debate MP3 Part II.

Is It Constitutional for the State to Endorse or Establish Materialism?, John Calvert, (Kansas City area attorney who is also a managing director of the Intelligent Design Network). Event summary. Lecture MP3.

Fifth Annual Faith and Bioethics Lecture, End of Life Care: Autonomy, Futility, and Knowing Where to Draw the Line, Dr. Robert Orr, University of Vermont College of Medicine (Director of Clinical Ethics at The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity and Director of Ethics at Fletcher Allen Health Care and the University of Vermont College of Medicine). Event summary. Lecture MP3.

Women in the Great Missionary Movements: What God Did for Women That Plato Never Could, Dr. Mimi Haddad, Christians for Biblical Equality. Event summary. Lecture MP3.

The Love of God and the Desire for Learning, Dr. Nicholas Wolterstorff (Noah Porter Chair Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University). Lecture MP3. Q&A MP3.

First Annual Faith and Human Rights Lecture, From Exile to Torture: The Global Scope of Religious Persecution, Dr. Paul Marshall, (Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, and at the Center for Religious Freedom, Freedom House, Washington, D.C. and author of Their Blood Cries Out). Event summary. Lecture MP3. Q&A MP3.

Third Annual Faith and Law Lecture, Disenfranchising Believers: How the Federal Courts’ Religious Motive Test Violates Religious Liberty, Dr. Francis Beckwith (Associate Professor of Church-State Studies, Baylor University, and author of Law, Darwinism, and Public Education). Lecture MP3.

Christianity: A Testimony of Judgment and Salvation, Dr. Steve Keillor (Institute Fellow and author of God’s Judgments). Lecture MP3.

Nihilism and Freedom: Is There a Difference?, Dr. David Bentley Hart (Visiting Professor, Randall Chair in Christian Culture, Providence College, and author of The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth). Response by Timothy Brennan (Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota). Lecture MP3. Q&A MP3. Lecture summary.

"I Tell You the Truth": Truth as Certainty and Truth as Mystery, Dr. Leonard Sweet (E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism, Drew University). Lecture MP3. Lecture summary.

Turning the World Upside Down: Israel's Scripture in Luke-Acts, Dr. Richard Hays (George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament, Duke Divinity School). Lecture MP3. Lecture summary.

Second Annual Faith and Economics Lecture, Why Trade Matters to the Poor, Dr. Judith Dean (International Economist, Office of Economics, Research Division, U.S. International Trade Commission and co-editor of Attacking Poverty in the Developing World: Christian Practitioners and Academics in Collaboration.). Lecture summary.

A World Safe for Diversity: Living with Our Deepest Differences in an Age of Pluralism, Dr. Os Guinness (Co-founder, Trinity Forum). Click here to read a brief interview with Dr. Guinness. 25th Anniversary Summary.

25th Anniversary: Can Freedom Last Forever? The Cost of Forgetting the Framers’ Foundational Conviction, Dr. Os Guinness (Co-founder, Trinity Forum). Click here to read a brief interview with Dr. Guinness. 25th Anniversary Summary.

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