Visiting Scholars Lecture Series

MacLaurin's Visiting Scholars Series brings nationally-recognized scholars and thinkers to the Twin Cities to speak on Christianity's relationship to a full range of academic disciplines and contemporary concerns. Our most popular lecture each year is our annual Paul Holmer Lecture, which has been delivered by Jean-Bethke Elshtain, Stanley Hauerwas, George Marsden, and Richard Swinburne, among others.

This year's VSLS include: 

Sept. 15, 7pm -- William T. Cavanaugh, "Does Religion Cause Violence?" (Smith Hall, Room 331, UofMN)

Oct. 28, 12pm -- 7th Annual Faith and Law Lecture: Robert K. Vischer, "Agape Law: Martin Luther King's Lessons for Lawyers (Mondale Hall, Room 25, UofMN)

Nov. 11, 12pm -- 8th Annual Faith and Bioethics Lecture: Gilbert Meilaender, "Gifts of the Body: Procuring Organs for Transplant" (for more details, click here)

Nov. 19, 7pm -- 2010 Paul Holmer Lecture: James K. A. Smith, "We Are What We Worship: On Sacred and Secular Liturgies" (for more details, click here)

Jan. 28, 7pm -- Edward Davis, "Science as Christian Vocation" (Keller Hall, Room 3-210, UofMN), co-sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. For more information, see the event page.

Jan. 29, 9am-12pm -- Edward Davis, "Seminar: The Historical Myth of the 'Warfare' between Science and Religion" (Keller Hall, Room 3-115, UofMN), co-sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. For more information, see the event page.

Mar. 31, 3pm -- John Fea, "Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?" (location TBA)

Apr. 5, 4:30pm -- Alan G. Padgett, "The Return of the Sacred in Contemporary Philosophy" (location TBA)