Spring 2003 PCS Conference

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April 4-5
Paul Marshall, keynote speaker
Plus DBU student papers, a concert with singer/song writer Kate Campbell,
and a concluding banquet at LaMadeleine French Bakery and Café

On April 4-5, 2003, the DBU Pew College Society will sponsor its sixth annual student conference with special guest speaker, Paul Marshall. Professor Marshall is senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and at the Center for Religious Freedom. He has testified many times before Congress, lectured at the U.S. State Department, the Helsinki Commission, Asylum Bureaus of the I.N.S., and spoken on human rights at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. He has also lectured in Canada, England, Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, Austria, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Korea, Belarus, Australia, South Africa, Nigeria, Sudan, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia.

His latest books, released in September 2002, are God and the Constitution: Christianity and American Politics and Islam at the Crossroads.

He is the author of the best-selling, award-winning survey of religious persecution worldwide titled Their Blood Cries Out, released 1997. His speech introducing the International Religious Freedom Act in the U.S. Senate was described as "a powerful and persuasive analysis" and an "exhaustive survey, "which simply cannot be ignored." Marshall is also the General Editor of Religious Freedom in the World: A Global Report on Freedom and Persecution (2000), and author and editor of nineteen other books and booklets, including The Talibanization of Nigeria (2002); Heaven is not My Home (1998); and A Kind of Life Imposed on Man: Vocation and Social Order from Tyndale to Locke (1996).

He has also published forty scholarly articles, twenty briefs to government bodies, and hundreds of popular articles. His writings have been translated into Russian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Malay, Korean, Arabic and Chinese.

He is in frequent demand for lectures and media appearances including interviews on ABC Evening News; CBS Evening News; CNN; Fox; PBS; the BBC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; and South African Broadcasting Corporation.

His work has been the subject of articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Times, Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, Christian Science Monitor, Weekly Standard, First Things, New Republic, Globe and Mail, Christianity Today, Decision, Reader's Digest and several hundred other newspapers and magazines.

Visiting professorships include the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto; Catholic University, Washington D.C.; the Faculties of Law and of Philosophy of the Free University, Amsterdam; Satya Wacana University, Indonesia; the European University for the Humanities, Belarus; Fuller Theological Seminary; J. Omar Good Distinguished Visiting Professor, Juniata College; and adjunct Professor in the Graduate Program in Philosophy at Rutgers University.

He has also been a senior fellow at the Institute of Religion and Democracy; Overseas Research Fellow for the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa; exploration geologist in the Canadian Arctic; forest fire fighter in British Columbia and an advisor to the Council of Yukon Indians. His hobbies include shark diving and photography.

Call for Papers, Conference Schedule

I am inviting all Pew people past and present to participate this year by either giving a paper or just attending the sessions and associated activities. I am going to present a paper myself. Hopefully other DBU faculty will as well. It will be a great time of intellectual and spiritual stimulation and it will afford a great opportunity to renew old friendships from days gone by. God has blessed us with a great community these past six years, and it would be a blessing to have a Pew reunion of sorts at this last conference.

In addition to our keynote speaker Paul Marshall, we will also be attending a concert featuring singer/song writer Kate Campbell at Uncle Calvin's Coffee House, an acoustic guitar venue at North Park Presbyterian on Friday night, April 4 (see http://www.unclecalvins.org/). Kate Campbell, whom the Pew College Society brought to DBU for a concert last October, is a most remarkable lyracist and vocalist, with soul-stirring songs that largely focus on southern culture and themes of faith, race, land, and other truly human things. Pew will pay for your ticket to the concert! For more on Kate, go to http://www.katecampell.com

So here is our conference schedule:

Friday, April 4

Saturday, April 5

So, if you would like to participate by presenting a paper, I need you to
confirm that with me as soon as possible. Please respond by email
(d1naugle@aol.com), or call me at 972-780-0626 (TTh) or 214-333-5248 (MWF). I
will need a commitment from you and a title for your paper. The final
deadline for participation is about Wednesday, March 26, but please try not
to wait that long til you respond.

2003 Conference Papers

Matthew as Literature: A Close Reading of the Passion and Resurrection - by Allysan Barnes

Poetry of Motion and the Aural Imagination in The Brothers Karamozov - by Stephen Barnes

The Prophetic Role of Intercession with Emphasis on Jeremiah - by Mark Boone

A Christian Response to Film - by Thomas Brandon

The Magician‘s Bargain: Science and Technology and The Abolition of Man - by Charles Russell Brown

Bad Reputations: Kate, Kat, and Ten Things I Hate about Shrew - by Stephen Kyle Davis

Constantine the Great: Unity and Ambiguity - by Brian Franklin

Affectionate Families: Artistic Implications of the Family Community - by Jared Griffin

Jehovah Java: Lessons for the Church from a Coffeehouse - by Britt Herrington

The Fallacy of Foreknowledge: A Study of Romans 8:29-30 - by Brent Hobbs

The Spiritual Aesthetics of Greek Tragedy: A deductive analysis of Nietzsche’s tragic worldview - by Chad Kidd

Metaphysically Challenged: Dorian and Sibyl’s Confusion of Reality and Non-Reality in The Picture of Dorian Gray - by Hope Kidd

A Moral and Scriptural Assessment of Euthanasia and the Sanctity of Life: Is Euthanasia Ever Justified? - by Luke E. Lin

Luther’s ‘The Freedom of a Christian’: A Theological Analysis - by Anita Scott

Reconstruction of Tradition: The Rebirth of Liturgy in the Postmodern Church - by Matthew Slay

The Romantic Self in Albert Camus’ "The Guest" and "The Adulterous Woman" - by Pamela D. Spates

Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian -A Response - by Michael Stone

Which Comes First? God and the Self in Calvin and Descartes- by James Taylor

Deconstructing Woody: Woody Allen’s Life and Work - by Lydia Tonoyan

Rendered Unto God, Punished by Caesar: An Analysis on the Reynolds Case on Polygamy and Religious Freedom - by Julie Wallace

Money and Ministers: A Pauline Perspective - by Cole Wilkins

Sensuousness, Immediacy, and the Eternal in Mozart's Don Giovanni: Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Music- by Christi Williams

The Age of Revolution: An Analysis of “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne - by Sarah Wronko