Faith and Reason Lecture/Dinners

Robert Schultz, Fishwick Professor English, "Building on the Stone Rejected by the Builder-Faith, Reason, Figure, and Story" to 34 attendees on September 25.

Brooks Crozier, Assistant Professor of Biology, "Facts, Faith, and the Creation of a Biologist," to 30 attendees on 30.

Mary Henold, Assistant Professor of History, "History, Catholicism, and the Wisdom of Cary Grant: Teaching History as an Act of Faith," to 35 attendees on January 25.

Brent Adkins, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, "Five Things I Learned About God from Nietzsche" to 30 attendees on March 22.

Major Public Events

"Conversations in the Public Square-America's Global Strategy in the 21st Century," featuring William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, and Anthony Lake, Security Advisor in the Clinton Administration, October 11, 700 persons present. Co-sponsored with the Fowler Program.

"Complicity and Perseverance-The Struggles of the Hungarian Lutherans During and After Communism," the Copenhaver Lecture offered by Tibor Fabiny, Copenhaver Scholar for 2006, to 27 invitees at the President's Dining Room, on November 9.

"Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead," given by Bishop NT Wright of the Diocese of Durham, England, to an audience of 2000 in the Bast Center at Roanoke College on March 16, preceded by a dinner with the Bishop and dignitaries. Bishop Wright then lectured twice on Saturday morning at the Church of the Holy Spirit to 500 people and preached twice on Sunday at St. John Lutheran Church to a congregation totally 1100 people.

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