Exploring Personhood
Challenges to Humanity
Join us for our third-annual Exploring Personhood conference, presented by the L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture on February 21-22, 2024.
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Be Equipped to Face Today's Challenges
What challenges do we face as human beings? How does our faith inform our understanding of mental health, identity, technology, life, and civic engagement?
Join us as we advance the conversation at our third-annual Exploring Personhood conference, presented by the L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture at the Ledford Center of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary on Feb. 21-22, 2024. You’ll hear from George Yancey, Liz Hall, Jacob Shatzer, John Wilsey, and Fuz Rana.
Exploring Personhood: Challenges to Humanity will begin with the authority of the Scriptures and Christian theology. We’ll then invite perspectives from sociology, psychology, history, science, and ministry. Our aim is to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on the Imago Dei and embodiment — all for the glory of God and the good of the world.
This conference is part of a larger project titled “Being Human: Theology and Praxis” made possible through the support of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. We thank the Foundation for its generosity, and we pray that our efforts will prove helpful for facilitating thoughtful dialogue and fruitful ministry.
Schedule
Wednesday, February 21
- 1:00 pm: Welcome
- 1:30 pm: Session 1 – Fuz Rana
- 2:30 pm: Session 2 – George Yancey
- 3:30 pm: Break
- 4:00 pm: Session 3 – John Wilsey
- 5:00 pm: Break
- 6:00 pm: “Science and the Journey to Faith” Dinner + Podcast Recording with Praveen Sethupathy and Molly Worthen (Add-on Ticket)
- 8:30 pm: Dismissal
Thursday, February 22
- 8:00am: Coffee Available
- 9:00 am: Session 4 – Panel Discussion
- 10:30 am: SEBTS Chapel – Ken Keathley
- 11:30 am: Lunch Break
- 12:30 pm: Session 5 – Liz Hall
- 1:30 pm: Response – Jacob Shatzer
- 2:30 pm: Closing Words
All sessions will be in the Ledford Event Room in the Ledford Center at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
This project was made possible through the support of grant #61985 from the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author(s)and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.
Add-On Ticket: "Science & the Journey to Faith": Dinner with Praveen Sethupathy and Molly Worthen
While at the conference, you're invited to join us on Feb. 21 at 6pm for dinner and a live recording of the Language of God podcast with host Jim Stump and guests Molly Worthen and Praveen Sethupathy.
Molly Worthen was a well known historian, specializing in United States religious history. Her book, Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism was a critical appraisal of Evangelism’s lack of centralized authority and the conflicts that ensue from that. But then in an interesting twist, she herself converted to Christianity, after long exploratory conversations with people like Tim Keller and Francis Collins. Also important to her faith journey was Praveen Sethupathy, who himself converted to Christianity from his Hindu upbringing. In this conversation we will explore these faith journeys.
You can add on this ticket for just $5 — a 67% savings! (Or, you can purchase dinner-only tickets.)
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