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To download this lecture on your mobile device, click “Listen in podcast app.” Critical Theory is a powerful force of influence in modern culture, but many do not understand its sources or the ways it has exerted an influence on modern society. This lecture will attempt to outline the main points developed by Critical Theory and trace its development to the modern-day.  Listen to Part 1 of this le...

To download this lecture on your mobile device, click “Listen in podcast app.” The popular and controversial Franciscan priest and Christian mystic, Father Richard Rohr, has become an elder statesman for disenfranchised evangelicals and spiritual seekers of every stripe. He presents a version of Christianity that syncs with modern progressive values, but changes the meaning of almost every central...

To download this lecture on your mobile device, click “Listen in podcast app.” Critical Theory is a powerful force of influence in modern culture, but many do not understand its sources or the ways it has exerted an influence on modern society. This lecture will attempt to outline the main points developed by Critical Theory and trace its development to the modern-day.  For more lectures, visit th...

To download this lecture on your mobile device, click “Listen in podcast app.” In a world of turmoil, art matters more than ever. Art reminds us of the things that really matter; it lifts our eyes to eternity and shows us the importance of the here and now.  We will look at the importance of art for all, not just the professionals and how creativity helps humans to flourish and reflect the charact...

This lecture will explore the continuing relevance of Schaeffer’s concept of true truth. For more lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library at  labriideaslibrary.org.  The library contains over one thousand lectures and discussions that explore questions about the reality and relevance of Christianity. We ask you to respect the copyright for this audio file which belongs to L’Abri Fellowship. Pleas...

What do you want to be when you grow up? A question we’re often asked as children, but not often enough as adults; what are we aiming for? Not many of us would answer ‘I want to be mature’. Yet, it is with the goal of presenting us ‘mature in Christ’ that Paul strives ‘with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in’ him. So why maturity and what is it actually? Is it something we can actively p...

Building on the idea of a clear literary strategy in the Gospel of John, we will look at the thought-world that forms the basis of the Gospel. How do the Hebrew Scriptures shape John’s language? How does the author think about God speaking in his days, and about his own role in this? There is a literary strategy in how John deals with these questions, with some familiar and some unexpected results...

For many of us, the question of calling and significance looms large.  Our culture struggles with questions of equality and hierarchy.  In this lecture, we will re-examine one of Francis Schaeffer's most well-known sermons and discuss being small and yet significant because we are consecrated to God in the place where we are. For more lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library at  labriideaslibrary....

The way we raise our children has changed significantly since the late 1970s. We’ll explore the impact of Therapeutic culture on the way we see our children and the task of parenting. For more lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library at  labriideaslibrary.org.  The library contains over one thousand lectures and discussions that explore questions about the reality and relevance of Christianity. We...

2021 is the 50th anniversary of L’Abri here in Greatham. Current director Jim Paul will be in conversation with Ranald Macaulay, who together with his wife Susan founded English L’Abri, exploring the story of how English L’Abri started and the enduring legacy of Francis and Edith Schaeffer. For more lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library at  labriideaslibrary.org.  The library contains over one...

Although many people think that political life is a neutral zone walled off from religion, it is actually in the grip of competing visions, each of which tells its own story of salvation. For more lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library at  labriideaslibrary.org.  The library contains over one thousand lectures and discussions that explore questions about the reality and relevance of Christianity...

Pledging allegiance to the American flag and to the “ Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all ” was once a common practice to begin the school day. But from the beginning of the American Republic, women were only one group not included in the “ all !” We will be considering the rise of American feminism as a response to the long history of...

As we continue into the 21st-century, our culture, including the church, is increasingly focused on outcome measurements and efficiency. But in “The Lord’s Work in the Lord’s Way,” Francis Schaeffer emphasized that to do the Lord's work we need also to do it in the Lord’s way . Ends are not all-important, but means are crucial in the kingdom of God. For more lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Librar...

Reflections on how Francis Schaeffer and L’Abri shaped Richard Winter’s thinking in the relationship between theology, medicine, psychiatry and counseling. For more lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library at  labriideaslibrary.org.  The library contains over one thousand lectures and discussions that explore questions about the reality and relevance of Christianity. We ask you to respect the copy...

Forty years ago Francis Schaeffer urged the church to live up to its calling in order to be ‘fit for purpose’ in a post-Christian world.  The core of his message speaks with a relevance and vibrancy the church needs to hear more than ever. In this talk, we explore what ‘Schaeffer’s burdens’ were and why they are applicable today. For more lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library at  labriideaslibr...

The Protestant Reformation’s 500-year anniversary and recent calls to reform the religion of Islam prompt the question of what reformation might entail for Muslims. What has and what will reformation look like in Islam? Keefer considers this question by exploring the history of the religion and its theological tenets. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribe...

Transgender rights have gone from a minor issue to becoming the cultural battlefield of the past few years, with major gains made by the transgender lobby in terms of law, educational policy, media coverage and celebrity endorsement. How has the transgender lobby been so successful in changing public opinion and the voices against transgenderism so unsuccessful in holding back this cultural change...

The current gender debate often flattens out the meaning of gender - male and female are merely the result of evolutionary developments and therefore we can construct and reconstruct gender in any way we see fit. But the Bible sees a deeper meaning behind gender, as well as giving a more nuanced account of our experience of what it means to be male and female. This is a public episode. If you woul...

In the early days of the modern 'green' movement, Francis Schaeffer published Pollution and the Death of Man , a short book occasioned by impoverished assumptions about humanity's place in nature among both evangelical Christians and secular environmentalists. This lecture will look at Schaeffer's Christian ecology and put his ideas in dialogue with an influential preacher (John MacArthur) and a l...

To celebrate release of his new book, What On Earth Is Heaven?, we present a discussion on the theme of heaven between Jim Paul, Dr Mary McCampbell (associate Professor of Humanities, Lee University and Andrew Peterson (singer/songwriter, author and co-founder of The Rabbit Room) with Lindsey Patton facilitating.  For more lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library at  labriideaslibrary.org.  The li...

All too often, Christian imaginations show evidence of having been hacked by the materialistic consensus in which we live. When it comes to the invisible dimension of reality, most Christians live as functional materialists, giving lip-service to the reality of the supernatural but denying its power. This lecture explores how materialism became so rampant in the church and how to live, as Francis...

Exploring ethical and theological understandings of hospitality. -Lois Lindholm, Former L'Abri Worker For more lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library at  labriideaslibrary.org .  The library contains over one thousand lectures and discussions that explore questions about the reality and relevance of Christianity. We ask you to respect the copyright for this audio file which belongs to L’Abri Fel...

Curiosity is a quality that most children seem to possess. It is this hunger to know and understand that spurs on their many questions. While some people remain curious into adulthood, for many of us it does not come as naturally as when we were young. Neither do many Christian people consider curiosity to be significant to the life of faith. What are some ways in which being genuinely curious can...

In ’The Last Battle’, the final book in CS Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, the children witness the end of Narnia before walking through a door between worlds into a land of "warm daylight' and "blue sky, with flowers at their feet”. They eventually come to see that this ’new’ land is the real Narnia, “which has always been here and always will be”, and that the old Narnia was only its shadow or copy...

What is a Map? How does it work and what does it do? In a general way, maps help us to orient ourselves. As we talk about this broad category such as reality, is it even possible to map it? This panel will explore the way we engage, think and represent the world around us, reflecting on the different sources we use to make sense of everything that is around us.  For more lectures, visit the L'Abri...