2015 Symposiums

January 

30th: "Of Hospitals and Universities: Medical Doctors and their Patients and University Doctors and their Students"

  • Dr. David Naugle, DBU

February 

6th: "Theology of the Body"

  • Monica Ashour, TOBET

13th: "Soul Care and the Christians in the Postmodern World."

  • Ian F. Jones, NOBTS

20th: "Bob Dylan and the End of the (Modern) World"

  • Christine Renee Hand Jones, DBU alumna

27th: "Chronicling Performing and Visual Arts in the Southwest: Bywaters Special Collections at SMU, with special emphasis on Greer Garson"

  • Sam Ratcliffe, SMU

March 

6th: "Grief: Living With Loss"

  • Verdell Krisher, Dallas

20th: "The Professor as Pastor"

  • Jack Goodyear, DBU

27th:"Beginning of the Doxa Literary Festival: What's Wrong with Sentimentality in Christian Art"

  • Benjamin Myers, The Poet Laureate of Oklahoma

April

10th: ""Contesting Catholicity"

  • Curtis Freeman, Duke Div. School

17th: ""The True Realism: Austin Farrer, C. S. Lewis, and the Apocalypse" (Part II)

  • Dr. Phillip Mitchell, DBU Faculty

24th: "Worship in Response to Why: Seeking Answers to Evil and Suffering in the 21st Century"

  • Jim Lemons, DBU

September

11th: "Philosophy: A Christian Vision"

  • David Naugle, DBU Faculty

18th: "Principled Pluralism and Religious Freedom"

  • Bob Fu, China Aid, Midland, TX

25th: "Gospel in a Pluralistic Society: Thoughts from Lesslie Newbigin and Others"

  • Carrie Boren Headington, Head of Evangelism in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas

October

2nd: "A Circumcised Heart"

  • Brent Thomason, DBU prof., and Grad of the Univ of Durham

16th: "Called" 'to C. S. Lewis’s Home, the Kilns"

  • Ryan Pemberton, Oxford C. S. Lewis Society

23rd: "China's One Child Policy and Forced Abortion Issue."

  • Reggie Littlejohn, Head of Women's Rights Without Frontiers

30th: "Martyrdom: Who Has Ears to Hear? Lessons from the Persecuted Church"

  • Karen Bullock, Fall Retreat

November

6th: "Theodicy and Theosis: Austin Farrer, C. S. Lewis, and the End of Time (Part 3)"

  • Dr. Phillip Mitchell, DBU Faculty

13th: "America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation"

  • Grant Wacker, Duke Div. School

20th: "Entering the Worship Wars"

  • Britt Herrington

December

4th: "Evangelicals and Catholics Together"

  • Fr. Dimitri Sala, Chicago