This year marks the 500th anniversary of the first English Reformation sermon preached, a sermon that ignited the beginnings of the evangelical church in England. This workshop will explore the story of the Reformation in England through the framework of God's providence vis-à-vis primary texts and pictures. The English Reformation provides a beautiful, compelling vignette of God's sovereignty that edifies and encourages us today in reminding us that the same sovereign God of William Tyndale, Robert Barnes, and Thomas Cranmer is our same sovereign God.

Led by Brian Hanson

Equipping and emboldening Christians to engage in the cultural issues relating to law, policy, and our local government based on 1 Peter 3:14–17.

Led by Renee Carlson

Good Christian writing requires skill with words, but also so much more. It calls for a certain mind and heart, a certain sight and life, and a certain soul. In this workshop, we’ll consider the kind of person who wields words to the glory of God and the good of man.

Led by David Mathis, Greg Morse, Scott Hubbard, and Clint Manley

What is the spectrum of major views that people hold on men and women? What does the whole Bible say about God’s good design for men and women? Specifically, what does 1 Timothy 2:9–15 mean?

Led by Andy Naselli

Engage in meditating on Scripture through the process of memorization and declaration. Learn helpful tools for memorizing long passages of Scripture and speaking them with conviction.

Led by Damien & Anna Leveritt

In the liberal arts we study Great Books, which can liberate us from ignorance and prejudice by showing, not just our minds, but our hearts and imagination what is true, good and beautiful. One interesting way they can do this is by highlighting the ugliness of what is false and evil. Abnormalities, such as monsters within stories, powerfully illustrate the heights from which God’s creation has fallen, and the end from which we should be repelled and repent.

Led by James McGlothlin

Although each individual Christian has a passport nationality, all Christians exist as earthly sojourners and heavenly citizens. In conversation with Christians ancient and contemporary, we’ll explore ways to cultivate hearts, habits, and hospitality within our earthly homes that reflect our homelessness, our eternal Home, and our Christian family around the world.

Led by Andrea Hoglund

How do we teach through, much less read through, a literary work that feels like it is burdened with excess violence or sensuality or folly—a burden we might call “gratuitousness”? In this workshop, we will consider not only how to assess when a story is carrying on too much for its own good but also consider how to write fiction and poetry with an eye towards loving our neighbor-reader in balance with a commitment to writing perceptively and truthfully about all parts of God's world including the human fallen experience in that world.

Led by Betsy Howard and Clint Manley

This workshop will focus our attention on how to keep the call to make disciples of all nations at the forefront of our minds and hearts. We will look at Scripture to explore God’s glorious plan, the world's great need, and our joyous reward. 

Led by Nick Whitehead

This workshop will examine and practice the ways in which the skills of the liberal arts can inform and enrich our Christian faith—both its content and its practice. We’ll look at three passages that engage our reason and imagination that will illuminate God’s gift to us in creation with the aim of growing our joyful affection for God and our ability to share that joy.

Led by Matt Crutchmer

The final book of holy Scripture presents a tale of two cities, which Augustine famously called “the city of this world” and “the city of God.” This workshop examines Revelation's rich biblical-theological presentation of Babylon and the New Jerusalem and offers pastoral encouragement for believers today.

Led by Brian Tabb

Led by Jon Hoglund

Christ isn’t merely the GOAT (the greatest of all time), he’s the GPOAT (the greatest possible of all time)! So how can we spread a passion for the supremacy of Christ (his GPOAT-ness) for the joy of all Gen-Z’ers?This workshop will explore 5 primary areas of “vain joys” the next gen is chasing after—and how Christ offers a superior pleasure.

Led by Brent Fischer and Luke Bostrom

Build a more robust biblical theology of suffering through the personal reflections of one couple’s journey through a decade of brain cancer. Interactive discussion will include: why God ordains suffering, joy and sanctification in suffering, and what does a theology of practical ministry in the midst of suffering look like?

Led by Jay & Kate Womack

In a world that often feels disenchanted, C. S. Lewis reawakens us to wonder by taking us on a voyage into space. This workshop will explore Lewis’s science fiction, including scenes from the Space Trilogy and other short-stories like “Forms of Things Unknown,” to demonstrate Lewis’s conviction that reason and imagination are not opposing forces, but essential partners in our search for meaning. Traveling into space with Lewis offers an opportunity to cultivate a richer view of reality by integrating reason’s capacity to analyze with the imagination’s power to synthesize, such that our desires are drawn Godward. 

Led by Zach Howard

We will look at how to do Short Term Ministry trips well, both for the benefit of the goers and for the global partner who receives the team.

Led by Brad Nelson

Classical Christian Education is growing in popularity and influence.  This workshop will wrestle with the question of why Christians interested in “The Joy of World Christianity” should care about and support this approach to teaching and learning.  We’ll discuss a few ideas that should not motivate one’s adoption of Christ-Centered Classical Education as well as several reasons that should be considered.  

Led by Keith Phillips

A proper, robust understanding and interpretation of history proceeds from a thorough, assiduous examination of primary source material through a multidisciplinary methodology. This workshop will demonstrate this principle by examining two pivotal primary texts by two early Puritans who challenged Queen Elizabeth I’s jurisdiction over the Church of England. By assessing these texts within the broader historical framework of the late sixteenth century, the treatises by Thomas Cartwright and Robert Browne, respectively, will reveal some Puritans’ concerns that the magistrates’ control over the Church crossed lines into unbiblical regulations and actions, resulting in political and ecclesiastical overreach and the devaluing of God’s glory in the Church.

Led by Brian Hanson

What did Jesus accomplish through his death? In this workshop we will explore how the passion narratives in the Gospels help us understand the meaning of Jesus’ death. Specifically, they teach us that Jesus died as our substitute to free from us the penalty and power of our sin.

Led by Joshua Greever