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"

May 24 - Ben Keyes
Understanding C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters, Part 3: Heaven’s Big Secret

May 31- Joshua Chestnut
Remaining Politically Homeless

June 7 - Ryan Fields
Christ Rules in Ten Thousand Places: A Free Church Account of the Church as Catholic

June 14 - Adam Kurihara
Liturgy is Life: Four frameworks for our gathered worship

June 21 - Marta Crilly
Remembering Together: Memory, Records, and History

June 28 - Sarah Chestnut
Stones, Onions and Odes: Inspiration for the Hard Work of Being Human

July 5 - Ben Keyes
Taylor Swift: Music, Mania & Monopoly

July 12 -Esther Dalton
Human-Sized: (Re)visiting Francis Schaeffer's "No Little People"

July 19 - Ben Keyes
Two Human Longings, Lost and Found

Jan 19 - To Respect Oneself as a Creature Part 2: Being in Process, Never ‘Arriving’ and the Elusiveness of Closure
Joshua Chestnut

Jan 26 - Understanding C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, Part II: The Many Roads to Unreality
Ben Keyes

Feb 2 - Trusting the Lord in Shattered Expectations: Reflections of a Missionary to Ukraine
Jeridan Dyck

Feb 9 - No Professional Humans: Amateur Spirituality and the Way of Love
Sarah Chestnut

Feb 16 - No lecture for this week - lectures will resume
Friday the 23rd.

Feb 23 - The Proverbs 31 Woman: Favored or Forsaken?
Mary Frances Giles

March 1- Yes and Amen: Examining the Fabric of Faithfulness
Esther Dalton

March 8 - The Book of Ezekiel: What is Going On?
Dr. Donna Petter

March 15 - The Book of Job and the Wild Edge of Sorrow
Joshua Chestnut

March 22 - Birds of the Kingdom, Part II: The Brains and Brawn of Migration
Ben Keyes