L’Abri Rochester

Many in Rochester know someone in the medical profession; perhaps a doctor, a nurse, a physical therapist. However, what most do not experience is the frontline work of the intensive care unit or the emergency department. These are the spaces where life and death meet; where patients and family members are faced with choices and endings that are deeply painful and often sudden and stressful. Amand...

How Should Christians Be Tolerant - Dick Keyes - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

Spiritual Transformation Through Five Doctrines of the Reformation - Doug Groothuis - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

The Unexpected Reformation - Larry Snyder - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

The Reformed Roots of Modern Science - Greg Grooms - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures  

Ideas affect our lives in both positive and negative ways. Some of the greatest problems in our lives have their origins in confused thinking. Such thinking makes serious thought about the ultimate issues of life close to impossible. We will look at several confusions that deeply harm people and leave them with without hope. This lecture does not presuppose any previous academic preparation. It is...

Mark Chavalas wrestles with a particular issue in the dialogue between God and Abram in Genesis 15, namely the identification of the ‘smoking oven and flaming torch’ of v. 17. Before the advent of the decipherment of cuneiform languages in the mid-nineteenth century the interpretation of the passage was rather straightforward; the oven and the torch represented God, who somehow passed through the...

"We want to be the church for people who don’t like church.” This is just one way I have heard it said lately. In the same way people still want romantic or sexual relationships, but don’t want to have anything to do with marriage… perhaps similar to the way a person decides that ‘The me that I am does not belong in this female body, but belongs in a male body’… and certainly in keeping with our n...

Updates from the Universe: From Challenges to the Big Bang Model to Extra-terrestrial Life and More - AJ Poelarends - Friday Night Lecture - 6th June   In the past few months, several extraordinary claims have been made about discoveries that could turn our understanding of our universe on its head. From signs that the acceleration of the universe is possibly slowing down (challenging the standard...

Can I Be Spiritual Without Being Religious? - Dick Keyes - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures   Dick Keyes is the director-emeritus of L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts, where he has been working with his wife and family since 1979. They now continue to be engaged in the work but on more of a part-time basis. He holds a B.A. in History from Har...

From Canon to Wikipedia and Back Again - Clarke Scheibe - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures   Clarke Scheibe is the director of L'Abri Fellowship in Victoria, B.C. His wife Julia and he have been a part of L'Abri in Canada for 15 years and they are grateful to have two young children. He received a BLA from the University of Mississippi and a MDiv from Regen...

Can We Keep it? - Marvin Padgett - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures Marvin Padgett is a book business professional who has served as the Editorial Director for Crossway Books in Wheaton, Illinois. He previously managed the bookstore at L'Abri in Huémoz, Switzerland in 1982. He has also served as a board member of Covenant College (1995-03), Good News Publis...

In the Beginning Was the Word: The Influence of the Reformation on Art and Music - John Hodges - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures   John Hodges has worked for over 15 years as an orchestral conductor and taught arts and cultural apologetics for over 10 years at Crichton College. He founded and directs the Center for Western Studies, a tutorial program that...

Salt and Light and the Transformation of Society - Dick Keyes - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures Dick Keyes is the director-emeritus of L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts, where he has been working with his wife and family since 1979. They now continue to be engaged in the work but on more of a part-time basis. He holds a B.A. in History from...

Europe: God's Experiment - Wim Rietkerk - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures Wim Rietkerk was educated at Leydon University in Philosophy of Religion and graduated in Theology at Kampen. He has worked as a pastor for many years along with leading L’Abri Fellowship in Holland. He is the author of several books including co-authoring What in the World is Real:...

The Book That Made Your World - Vishal Mangalwadi - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures    Vishal Mangalwadi is an Indian philosopher and social reformer who has written several popular books on the Bible’s seismic influence. Vishal has lectured in over 40 countries, published seventeen books (including The Book That Made Your World), and contributed to many m...

Tolkien's Elves - The Ideal of Every Artist and Sub-Creator - Jerram Barrs - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian   Jerram Barrs retired in 2022 after 34 years of service to the Seminary. A student of the late Francis A. Schaeffer, Jerram joined the Covenant faculty in 1989 after 18 years with L’Abri Fellowship in England, where he also served as a pa...

The Intriguing Friendship Between Francis Schaeffer and Hans Rookmaaker - Edith Reitsema - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian   Edith Reitsema worked at English L’Abri from 2002 to 2020, holds a B.A. in Music, and an Honours Degree in Modern English Literature from Potchefstroom University in South Africa; an M.A. in Theology from Covenant Seminary;...

A Walk Through Aaron Copland's What to Listen for in Music - John Hodges - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian John Hodges has worked for over 15 years as an orchestral conductor and taught arts and cultural apologetics for over 10 years at Crichton College. He founded and directs the Center for Western Studies, a tutorial program that teaches colleg...

Cultivating Beauty - Alison McGregor - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian Alison Mcgregor, who is Australian, worked in computing for 3M Australia before joining her husband Jock in the ministry of L’Abri. They worked at English L'Abri for 10 years and have led the Rochester L'Abri for 20 years. She enjoys still life painting and foraging for mushro...

Finding a Voice Through the Arts - Ann Riggot - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian   Ann Riggot is primarily a figurative artist using oils in a more traditional realist style, Ann has explored several other styles and subjects including reflective objects, ocean waves and birds.  Her favorite subject matter, however, are children exploring and inte...

Shakespeare and the Christian Walk - Keith Jones - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian Dr. Keith Jones received his B.A. in English from Covenant College and his M.A. in English Literature and Ph. D. in Renaissance English Literature from Saint Louis University. He served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department of Wheaton College...

Beauty out of Ashes: Blues and Spirituals for Troubled Times - Bill Edgar - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian   William 'Bill' Edgar (BA, Harvard University, MDiv, Westminster Theological Seminary, DTh, Université de Genève) is proffesor of Apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. He directs the gospel-jazz band Renewal, which...

The Exploration of Good and Evil in C.S. Lewis's Science Fiction Trilogy - Jerram Barrs - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian   Jerram Barrs retired in 2022 after 34 years of service to the Seminary. A student of the late Francis A. Schaeffer, Jerram joined the Covenant faculty in 1989 after 18 years with L’Abri Fellowship in England, where he also s...

The Apologetics of Beauty: The Aesthetic Vision of Edith Schaeffer - Mike Sugimoto - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian   Mike Sugimoto is Professor of Asian Studies at Pepperdine University with a focus on cinema, sociology and philosophy.