• May 30th - Go Slow and Repair Things: Reading Paul's Letter to the Ephesians in Dark Days

  • Given by Joshua Chestnut

• June 6th - A Beginner’s Guide to the Hard Problem of Consciousness

  • Given by Ben Keyes

• June 13th - Relatable Heroism: The Power of Literary Weaklings

  • Given by Emily Fellows

June 20th & 21st Theme Weekend - A Hall of Portraits: Imitating Christ Through Imitating the Saints

• Friday, June 20th - Heroes, New and Used

  • Given by Dick Keyes

• Saturday AM - "Often a Skylark Comes and Sings": The Spiritual Formation of Corrie ten Boom

  • Given By Marta Crilly

• Saturday, PM - Two Portraits -

• “Pray for those who persecute you”: The life of civil rights worker Fannie Lou Hamer

  • Given by Ben Keyes

• There Are Many Ways to Say I Love You: Jesus and Mr. Rogers on the Power of Gentleness

  • Given by Joshua Chestnut

• June 27th - The Incarnation as Interruption

  • Given by Ben Keyes

• July 4 (holiday) - No lecture this week

• July 11th - How to Be a Guest

  • Given by Esther Dalton

• July 18th - The Promise of Zion in Isaiah: God's vision for the Nations

  • Given by Dr. Tom Petter

Sept 13- Mary Frances Giles- Can Anything Good Come from Barbieland? What A Plastic Doll Can Teach Us About Becoming More Human-

Sept 20- Ben Keyes- What is the Faith Jesus is Looking For?

Sept 27- Joshua Chestnut- To Get Where You Want Sometimes You Need to Stay Put: Acedia and the Christian Life

Oct 4- Marta Crilly- Remembering Together: Community Memory and Archives

Oct 11- Esther Dalton - The Way in the Wilderness: a study of Jesus's temptations

Oct 18- Ben Keyes- Birds of the Kingdom Part III, What the Birds are Saying: An Introduction to the Wonders of Birdsong

Theme Weekend                                                          

Vocation: Participating With God’s Work in the World  (click here for more details)

• Friday, Oct 25-  

  • Theological Reflections on Vocation: A Call to Participate With God in Restoration 

Given by Karen Kupelian

• Saturday, Oct 26th

  • Calling, Distraction, Hard Task, Sabbath: Wrestling with Vocation with the Help of Poets

Lecture given by Sarah Chestnut

• Did I Miss My Calling? The Circuitous Path of Vocational Clarity

Workshop/Discussion with Scott Walker from Life/Work Direction

Nov 1- Dick Keyes- What is Christian Nationalism?

Nov 8- Esther Dalton- Chaffinches and Cherubim: Bearing Witness to Glory

Nov 15- Joshua Chestnut -Make Sex Consequential Again: A Consideration of "Sex-Realist Feminism"

Jan 17

Now Thank We All Our God: Singing Hymns from the 30 Years War

Esther Dalton

Jan 24

What is the Abraham sacrificing Isaac story doing in the Bible?

Dick Keyes

Theme Weekend: Our Fractured relationship with Time*

Jan 31  

Becoming Friends with Time

Joshua Chestnut

Feb 1

A.M. Why is it so hard to wait well (and so easy to wait badly)?

Ben Keyes

P.M. Panel Discussion coordinated by Sarah Chestnut

Feb 7

Coping with Anxiety: Mindfulness, Eastern Meditation and Biblical Wisdom

Mardi Keyes

Feb 14

Stones, Onions and Odes: Inspiration for the Hard Work of Being Human (Part 2)

Sarah Chestnut

Feb 21 - THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS -

For those of you who are interested in the 'problem of consciousness,' Ben will give this lecture at a later date!

Feb 28

Listen to Your Lust: Engaging your story to heal from porn use

Jeff Banks

March 7

Nurturing A Capacious Heart: Why Everyone Should Read Kate DiCamillo

Joshua Chestnut

Theme Weekend- Mental Health and the Life of Faith*

March 14 

Stewarding Our Day-to-Day Mental Health

Joshua and Sarah Chestnut

March 15

A.M. lecture TBA

Dr. Brandon Unruh

P.M. lecture TBA

Dr. Brandon Unruh

*Theme Weekend details

• If you would like to join us for the day on Saturday, please email us your reservation to southborough@labri.org the Thursday before. The seminar is free, although there is a suggested donation of $10.00 to offset the cost of lunch on Saturday.

• The Saturday portion of the seminar is given in conjunction with our lecture on Friday evening, however, attendance both days is not required.

• Limited overnight accommodations may be available at L'Abri. Please email southborough@labri.org if you would like to add your name to the waiting list for overnight accommodations, and you will be notified if/when space becomes available.