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2013 - March 12
Rick Steves
"A Calling to Travel"

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2012 - November 13
David Gushee and Stephen Hayes
"The Meaning of the 2012 Elections" 

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  2012 - September 14
Dr. Robert Millet, Dr. Gerald McDermott, Dr. Robert Benne, and Dr. Harry Wilson

"A Mormon President? Religious & Political Perspectives"

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Robert Benne
Director of the Center for Religion and Society at Roanoke College, "Long Obedience in the Same Direction."
March 29, 2012

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Michael McClymond
, associate professor at Saint Louis University.
"Jonathan Edwards and the Future of Global Christianity."
February 10, 2012 in Antrim Chapel

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Pictured are Charles and Helen Schummann, donors for the Schumann Chair in Christian Ethics. Next to them are James Peterson, holder of the Schummann Chair, and Fritz Oehlschlaeger, Professor of English at Virginia Tech. The latter two lectured at a Symposium held at Roanoke College's Antrim Chapel on November 10 entitled: The Promise and Peril of Bio-Technological Advance.

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 Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and member of the President's Council on Bio-Ethics.
"The Blessings and Burdens of a Christian Political Philosopher."
March 31, 2011


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Rabbi Dr. Eugene Korn and Prof. Gerald McDermott, Boston Hebrew College and Roanoke College
"What Can Jews and Christians Learn from Each Other?"
January 27, 2011 in Antrim Chapel

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George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, DC.
"The Meaning of Pope John Paul II for Church and World," October 26, 2010.

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M. Roy Schwarz, MD, Senior Vice President of Medical Education and Science at the American Medical Association
"Faith, the Ongoing Miracle for a Physician."
March 25, 2010 

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Benne, Hinlicky, McDermott and Wisnefske.
Symposium—"Does Theology Belong in the Academy?"
January 27, 2010

Benne's Introduction
Hinlicky Speech
McDermott Speech
Wisnefske Speech

Judge Humes Franklin, Jr., Chief Judge of the 25th Circuit Court of Virginia
"Whether Judges and Lawyers Too Can Be Saved."
April 2, 2009

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John Stackhouse, Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, BC.
"Beer, Poetry, Prayer, Dishwashing and Work: CS Lewis's Approach to Life."
February 20, 2009, in the Wortmann Ballroom of Colket Center

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Carl Braaten, Professor of Theology Emeritus, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
"Public Theology, the Lutheran Contribution, and Christian Higher Education." In honor of Dr. Robert Benne's new festschrift: A Report from the Front Lines.
January 30, 2009, in the Antrim Chapel.

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Brad Wilcox, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
"Why Marriage Matters"
November 11, 2008

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Father Richard John Neuhaus, Catholic Priest and Author
"Moral Issues and Political Choices"
October 9, 2008, in the Wortmann Ballroom of Colket Center

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Harry Stout, Jonathan Edwards Professor at Yale University
"The Religion of Jamestown"
October 5, 2007, in the Wortmann Ballroom of Colket Center

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John Witte, Director of the Emory University Center for the Study of Law and Religion
"Separation of Church and State - Facts, Fictions, and Future Challenges"
September 17, 2007 in Wortmann Ballroom of Colket Center

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Bishop Tom (Dr. N.T.) Wright, Bishop of Durham in the Church of England
"Did Jesus Really Rise From the Dead?"
March 16, 2007 in Bast Center

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Mark Noll, Wheaton College
"The Explosion of Christianity in the Global South."
March 24, 2006 in Antrim Chapel

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Gilbert Meilaender, Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University
"Ethics at the End of Life - after Schiavo"
September 23, 2005

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Gerald McDermott and Robert Millet, Roanoke College and Brigham Young University
a public conversation on "The Mormon Jesus."
September 20, 2005 in Antrim Chapel

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