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SCL Conference in Baltimore
Of all the delights at the SCL Conference in Baltimore, my favorite part was hearing Dr. John Lennox, professor of mathematics at Oxford University.
His talks on Genesis, faith, reason, the new Atheists, etc. were fantastic. Fortunately, many of his speeches are available on-line:
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Permalink Reply by Jesse Hake on -
Alison, I'm still sifting through it all! I also thought that John Lennox was a remarkable privilege to hear. Hopefully some of us can get together face to face and chat about the ideas and challenges that we each took away from the conference. I'll post a couple notes about people and concepts that I found most thought-provoking when I've had a chance to digest it for a couple more days. So many earnest and humbling thoughts upon which to reflect! Thanks for this great discussion thread.
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Here are two recurring themes from the conference that rose to the top for me:1) Making some of the greatest artists, thinkers and public servants of the past into our best friends is refreshing and exciting but not easy (particularly in our frantic and progress-hungry modern culture). However, achieving these friendships offers incredible value and reward over a lifetime of service in any field.2) We awaken and shape student hearts and character (as well as our own) more profoundly through the collective culture that we create than through the specific curriculum that we adopt (with culture being formed by the details of our physical environment, the tone of our personal interactions, and the rhythms of the day, week, month and year).One book that came up repeatedly (and which I have enjoyed in this past year) is Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation by James K.A. Smith (in a series called Cultural Liturgies). Also, Ken Myers of Mars Hill Audio delivered a great deal of profoundly thought-provoking material in the last plenary talk on Saturday. His interviews (and lectures) sometimes require a little background to follow but are well worth the investment. Great introductions to both Smith and Myers are available at Dr. Christopher Perrin's blog where he shared personal interactions with each of these men: interview with Smith and interview with Myers.
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Permalink Reply by Jesse Hake on
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Mini update. All three of the books that I reviewed briefly in this Classical U blog post (for our school news letter) were mentioned or discussed in several forums at the recent SCL conference:
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Permalink Reply by Alison Mullins on -
I just came across this article about Dr. Lennox on his web-site: www.johnlennox.org
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/not-your-averag...
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Permalink Reply by Jesse Hake on
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It was a privilege to hear someone of his caliber at the conference. I certainly felt this way myself: "What one notices about Lennox in both his writing and speaking is that he is free from petty labels, beholden to no one. He is a gentleman (an Australian audience member of last month's debate [against Princeton's Peter Singer, a highly publicized bio-ethicist and atheist] described [Lennox] as 'grandfatherly'), and his humility sets him apart in the crowd of otherwise shrill, arrogant voices debating faith, science and godlessness."
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