Christianity and Public Morality
Date: September 24, 2008
Time: 11:00 a.m. (Bowie Chapel)
Speaker: Terry Eastland, Publisher
Terry Eastland, publisher of The Weekly Standard and a contributor to numerous publications, including the Dallas Morning News, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, and Commentary. His books include “Ending Affirmative Action,” “Energy in the Executive,” and “Ethics, Politics and the Independent Counsel.”

The Bible and Archeology
Date: October 16, 2008
Time: 11:00 a.m. (Bowie Chapel)
Speaker: Dr. Steven Collins
Dr. Steven Collins is Executive Curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Biblical History and Dean of the College of Archaeology at Trinity Southwest University in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is also the Director of the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. This is a joint excavation project between the College of Archaeology of Trinity Southwest University and Jordanian Department of Antiquities. Based upon textual and archaeological evidence from the site, Dr. Collins is convinced that the largest city now being excavated is indeed Sodom and he has plans to continue excavating the Five Cities of the Plain. Dr. Collins’ work has stirred up a hornet’s nest since his evidence seems to refute long-held theories about the location of Sodom.

Christianity and Public Service
Date: November 12, 2008
Time: 11:00 a.m. (Bowie Chapel)
Speaker: Millard Fuller
Millard Fuller founded Habitat for Humanity in 1976 and served in executive roles until 2005. His leadership helped forge Habitat into a worldwide Christian housing ministry.
A graduate of Auburn University in Auburn, Ala., and the University of Alabama Law School at Tuscaloosa, he and a college friend began a marketing firm while still in school. In 1973, Fuller moved to Africa with his wife and four children. The housing project, which they began in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was a success in that developing nation. Fuller became convinced that this model could be expanded and applied all over the world. Upon his return to the United States in 1976, he met with a group of close associates. They decided to create a new independent organization: Habitat for Humanity International. He and his wife have been awarded numerous public service awards. In 1996, former U.S. President Bill Clinton awarded Fuller the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, calling Habitat “the most successful continuous community service project in the history of the United States.”

Spring Missions Emphasis Week
Date: February 17-19, 2009
Time: 11:00 a.m. (Bowie Chapel)
Speaker: Frank Van Dalen, Executive Director, World Witness
World Witness is the Board of Foreign Missions of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. Evangelism, discipleship, church planting and ministries of mercy have been the focus of World Witness since 1859. This year World Witness Programs are active in Mexico, Pakistan, Berlin, Istanbul, Moscow, the Persian World and Asia through a Cooperative Agreement with Evangelism Explosion. Cooperative missionaries of World Witness also serve in Brazil, Mexico, Spain and Korea.

Date: February 12, 2009
Time: 11:00 a.m. (Bowie Chapel)
Speaker: Dr. Craig Evans
Craig Evans is Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College of Acadia University, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. He received his B.A. degree in History and Philosophy from Claremont McKenna College, his M.Div. degree from Western Baptist Seminary in Portland, Oregon, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Biblical Studies from Claremont Graduate University in southern California.
After teaching one year at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Evans taught at Trinity Western University in British Columbia for twenty-one years, where he directed the graduate program in Biblical Studies and founded the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute. He was also for one year a Visiting Fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. Evans joined the Acadia Divinity College faculty in 2002.
Professor Evans has also authored more than two hundred articles and reviews. He served as senior editor of the Bulletin for Biblical Research (1995–2004) and the Dictionary of New Testament Background (2000), winner of a Gold Medallion. Currently Evans is serving on the editorial boards of Dead Sea Discoveries, the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, and New Testament Studies. He is also writing Matthew for the New Cambridge Bible Commentary series and a book on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian faith. His newest book, Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels, was released by Inter-Varsity Press in December 2006. Professor Evans has given lectures at Cambridge, Durham, Oxford, Yale, and other universities, colleges, seminaries, and museums, such as the Field Museum in Chicago and the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa. He has appeared in several History Channel and BBC documentaries and is a regular guest on Dateline NBC. Evans also served on the National Geographic Society’s Gospel of Judas project.

Annual Spring Conference
Date: April 22 - 23, 2009
Time: 11:00 a.m. (Bowie Chapel)
Speaker: Dr. David S. Dockery
David S. Dockery was elected the 15th president of Union University on December 8, 1995. Prior to coming to Union, Dockery served as Chief Academic Officer of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Dockery is the author or editor of thirty books including Renewing Minds, Southern Baptist Consensus and Renewal, Biblical Interpretation Then and Now, Theologians of the Baptist Tradition, The Doctrine of the Bible, and the Holman Bible Handbook. In addition he has contributed to over thirty other volumes. He is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and book reviews. A much sought after speaker on issues of higher education and cultural issues, Dockery has been invited to present lectures at numerous colleges, universities, and seminaries across the country. His articles have been published in Touchstone, Books & Culture, Christianity Today, and a number of other publications. He has been interviewed on several national networks: CNN, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, FOX, and numerous local/regional television channels; along with national radio interviews on ABC, FOX, and NPR.

Robinson Lectures
Date: April 22 - 23, 2009
Time: 10:00 a.m. (Bowie Chapel)
Speaker: Dr. Darrell Guder
Darrell Guder is Princeton Theological Seminary’s Dean of Academic Affairs and the Henry Winters Luce Professor of Missional and Ecumenical Theology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg. As an ordained Presbyterian minister, he served as a student outreach pastor and as a faculty member of the Karlshohe College in the German Lutheran Church. His writing and teaching focus on the theology of the missional church, especially the theological implications of the paradigm shift to post-Christendom as the context for Christian mission in the West. He has served as secretary-treasurer of the American Society of Missiology (ASM) and is currently president of the ASM.