2010 Symposiums

January

29th: "Jesus the Tekton (i.e., Carpenter)"

  • Dr. David Naugle

February

5th: "The Scientific /Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism and Science are Incompatible"

  • Dr. Alvin Plantinga, University of Notre Dame

12th: "Christianity Contemporary Art and Film"

  • Dr. Larry Williams. The John Newport Foundation

19th: Out of the Mouths of Boys and Girls: What We Can Learn from Children and their Conversion Stories

  • Dr. Tommy Sanders

26th: "We Are What We Worship: Or, Why Being Human Takes Practice"

  • Dr. James K.A. Smith

March 

5th: "President Lincoln's T-mails (the Telegraph): Electronic Lessons Learned from our 16th President"

  • Prof. Danny Rose

19th: "Legend and History Have Met and Fused: Tolkien's Answer to Darwin"

  • Dr. Philip Mitchell

26th: "How Poems Be: The Poetic as Contemplative Practice"

  • Dr. Scott Cairns, University of Missouri

April

9th: "So Much Cooler Online' - Is that the Real YOU on Facebook?" Panel Discussion

  • Jonathan Cooper
  • Greg Hollabaugh
  • Beverly Powell
  • Renea McKenzie

16th: "Jesus in Bejing: The Rise of Christianity in China"

  • Dr. David Aikman, Washington D.C.

23rd: "Promise and Deception - Two Insiders' Experiences of Living within Cuba's Totalitarian State"

  • Prof. Juan Baldor
  • Yanely Mesa, DBU Student

30th: "'Jesus Made Me Do It' - or - 'A Woman's Guide on How to Avoid Being Burned at a Stake"

  • Prof. Rebecca Dark

September

10th: "St. Augustine on Education"

  • Dr. David Naugle

17th: "Separation of Catholics and State: Stemming the Anit-Catholic Tide in the 1960 Presidential Campaign"

  • Dr. Stephen Stookey

24th: "The Well ordered Mind: Moral Imagination in Harry Potter"

  • Travis Prinzi (Harry Potter Specialist)

October

1st: "What is a Biblical Worldview"

  • Jaclyn Young (DBU Honors Student)

15th: "The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship"

  • Dr. George Marsden (University of Notre Dame)

  • Dr. C. Steven Evan (Baylor University)

22nd: "America and European Style Social Democracies"

  • Dr. David Stricklin (moderator)

  • Panel Includes: Dr. Gail Wallace, Prof. Jekabs Bikis, and Prof. Rob Sullivan

29th: "Christianity, Contemporary Art and Film"

  • Dr. Larry Williams, The Newport Foundation

November

5th: "'The Lilies of the Field' and the Christian Artistic Vision"

  • Makoto Fujimura

12th: "Words Made Fleash: The Debate Over Nature and Grace in the Painting and Poetry of David Jones"

  • Dr. Philip Mitchell

19th: "The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind"

  • Dr. Aaron Fletcher

December

3rd: "'So Much Cooler Online': The Pros and Cons of Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter (etc.) as Social Networking Sites"

  • Dr. Philip Mitchell (moderator)
  • Panel Includes: Prof. Greg Hollabaugh and Prof. Beverly Powell