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'That we Might be Truly Human': Looking Back at Rookmaker's Legacy... and Looking Forward - Robb Ludwick - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian   Robb Ludwick lives and works at L’Abri Fellowship in the Netherlands with his wife and four children. Alongside rendering hospitality and mentoring L’Abri guests, Robb teaches and writes regularly on cultura...

Celebrating the Wisdom of Luci Shaw and the Witness of Poetry - Sarah Chestnut - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian   Sarah Chestnut lives and works at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts with her husband and two children. Sarah’s poetry and creative non-fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in CRUX, Red Rock Literary Journal, LETTER...

The Sources of Tolkien's Inspiration in his Sub-Creation of Middle Earth - 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 ser...

Apollo, Dionysus and Jesus: A Brief history of Western Aesthetics - 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 teach...

Created and Creating: A Mandate for Creativity and the Arts - Bill Edgar - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian   William 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 feature...

Given that even 'spiritual giants' can burn out, this talk will look at the example of Elijah in 1 Kings 19:3-31 to discern the Three Basic Principles of Rest. InKyung Sung is the coordinator of L’Abri Fellowship Korea. He and his wife KyungOk founded the branch in 1990. They have three children. InKyung has written 'Turning my Worldview Upside Down' and 6 other books, while KyungOk wrote 'Mother...

The God we encounter in the Bible is a God who asks questions. The questions God asks tend to play significant roles in moving the redemptive story forward. This lecture will explore this idea, focusing particularly on two of those questions and what they might mean for you and I today. Karl Pacholke, with his wife Jenny, is a few years into the vulnerable process of starting a new L'Abri work in...

Western Society is, to all intents and purposes, atheist. Our scientific, economic, political, and educational institutions all operate practically as if God is irrelevant. What has happened in both the sciences and humanities that has created this situation and what are the consequences? When examined closely, is there a rational case which, once again, points in the Biblical direction towards th...

What is Stewardship? - Dick Keyes - 2019 Conference Highlights: Common Grace for the Common Good - Living Life Vocationally   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 Harvard Univ...

Finding Sabbath Rest in a World That Never Stops - Mary Frances Giles - 2019 Conference Highlights: Common Grace for the Common Good - Living Life Vocationally   Mary Frances Giles holds an MA in Theology from Regent College and a MS in Speech and Language Pathology form Boston University. Mary works with L'Abri Fellowship Southborough.

The Changing Relationship of Young People to Work - Mardi Keyes - 2019 Conference Highlights: Common Grace for the Common Good - Living Life Vocationally   Mardi graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in Biblical History in 1968. Shortly after graduation, she married Dick Keyes, and in 1970, they moved to Europe to work with L’Abri. They spent six months in Switzerland, and eight and a hal...

The Spirit at Work: God and Vocation - Clarke Scheibe - 2019 Conference Highlights: Common Grace for the Common Good - Living Life Vocationally   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 MDi...

Singing Songs the Whole World Can Hear - Steven Garber - 2019 Conference Highlights: Common Grace for the Common Good - Living Life Vocationally   Dr. Steven Garber served at Regent College from 2017–2020 as Professor of Marketplace Theology and Leadership and as Director of Regent’s Master of Arts in Leadership, Theology, and Society. Prior to his time at Regent, he served as Principal of The Was...

Living Life Vocationally: What the Church Must Do - Luke Bobo - 2019 Conference Highlights: Common Grace for the Common Good - Living Life Vocationally   Luke Bobo (MDiv, PhD) previously served as director of resource and curriculum development for Made to Flourish and works as an adjunct professor of contemporary culture and apologetics at Covenant Seminary. He is the author of Living Salty and L...

Christian Vocation in the Sciences - Frank Stootman - 2019 Conference Highlights: Common Grace for the Common Good - Living Life Vocationally.   Frank Stootman runs L'Abri Sydney with his wife Heather. He holds a PhD in Physics. Frank was an Associate Professor at Western Sydney University (WSU). His primary scientific interests are astrophysics and computational simulation. He has lectured extens...

Christian Vocation in the Humanities - John Hodges - 2019 Conference Highlights: Common Grace for the Common Good - Living Life Vocationally   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 college-aged students...

Created to Make a Difference - Dick Keyes - 2019 Conference Highlights: Common Grace for the Common Good - Living Life Vocationally 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 Harvar...

Ninety years ago, the renowned biblical archaeologist Nelson Gleuck surveyed the copper mines in the southern Arabah region of the Negev. He considered them to be from the period of King Solomon, based upon the Bible’s description of Solomon’s expansive ship building and his economic empire. Some years later, archaeologists debunked Glueck’s ideas, arguing that there was no material evidence that...

n this lecture, Dr. Bob Osburn invites critiques of his five-part social change model that has been developed over the past decade or more. Although the model, which will be presented in detail, was featured in an article he recently wrote for Christianity Today, the model has not yet been tested, let alone systematically applied. Is the model guilty of utopianism, on the one hand, or is it too mo...

After speaking about the nature of philosophy as a method and way of life (the love of wisdom), we will address what is called 'Naturalism' (roughly the view that only nature exists and the natural sciences are our best or only ways of knowing reality). Reasons for and against strict and broad or expansive forms of naturalism will be assessed. All forms of naturalism reject the supernatural. Is "s...

When you hear the word "genocide" what comes to mind? Likely an event of mass killing: perhaps 'the Armenians' (WWI) or Stalin starving out Ukraine (1932-33); extermination camps under National Socialism; or Pol Pot's 'killing fields' (Cambodia, 1975-79); or Rwanda (July 1994). Now, questions arise concerning the tactics and intent in Russia's war against Ukraine, and from the October 7 Hamas atta...

In our broken world, how can we design and build places that demonstrate God’s redeeming work on earth? We will explore how God invites us, as co-creators, to participate in redemptive placemaking - the art of creating places that extol the dignity of being human and foster relationships for community flourishing. You will discover the ways that contributing goodness and beauty to our neighborhood...

Francis Schaeffer on Cultural Engagement - Dan Guinn - 2020 Conference Highlights: For a Time Such As This - Grasping Our Cultural Moment Dan Guinn is the founder of Francis Schaeffer Studies, a research service providing online resources to the Francis Schaeffer and L'Abri Communities, with the goal of making Dr. Schaeffer's thought and teachings more accessible for general inquiry. Francis Schae...

Swords & Plowshares: Living Christianity in a Time of war - Tim Padgett - 2020 Conference Highlights: For a Time Such As This - Grasping Our Cultural Moment   Timothy D. Padgett (PhD) is the Theologian-in-Residence with the Colson Center. His focus is on cultural engagement, living out the Christian worldview, and the way Christians argue for diverse viewpoints while sharing a common biblical...

The Novelty of White Supremacy: A Modernist Conceit Disguised as an Ancient Creed - Tim Padgett - 2020 Conference Highlights: For a Time Such As This - Grasping Our Cultural Moment   Timothy D. Padgett (PhD) is the Theologian-in-Residence with the Colson Center. His focus is on cultural engagement, living out the Christian worldview, and the way Christians argue for diverse viewpoints while sharin...