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• May 8-9
  • Seminar

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  Word Meets World

  Dr. William Edgar and Dr. Chris Simmons · 0

  What if you could spend a few hours on a Friday evening and Saturday morning and get answers to key questions about relating your faith to your world?
  

  Word meets World helps you develop an understanding of core biblical principles and models how to apply your faith to life issues. This seminar will help you become grounded in what the Bible teaches about

  •    How media and popular culture affect us
  •    The role of the heart, mind and senses in engaging the world
  •    Foundational principles for understanding our relationship to the world
  •    Sacred vs. Profane/Common Grace vs. the Antithesis and other important issues

  William Edgar is Professor of Apologetics, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. Chris Simmons is Executive Director of The Gospel & Culture Project.

  Friday, May 8th, 7–9:45pm; Saturday, May 9th, 9:30–12:30pm

  Cost: $40 per person / $20 per full-time student

  Location: Philadelphia Mennonite High School, 860 North 24th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130

  To Register and/or request additional information: email your name and phone number to wmw@gospelandculture.org. Send Email

  Word meets World Schedule:
  FRIDAY
  7:00–8:00	Cultural Engagement: Common Grace, the Antithesis and other Foundational Issues
  8:00–8:15	Break
  8:15–9:45	Application: Media, the Eye and the Heart
  SATURDAY
  9:30–10:30	World Relational Questions: Liberty, License, Personal Thresholds, Prophetic Responsibilities
  10:30–10:45	Break
  10:45–11:45	Application: Understanding How Media Attract and Engage Us
  11:45–12:30	Conclusions, Bigger Questions

• Mar 6
  • Foray

  · 7–9 pm

  Cynicism, Culture and the Honest Mind

  Dick Keyes, Director, L’Abri, Southborough, MA · 0

  This evening will focus on how cynicism, especially in its many contemporary manifestations, affects our understanding and experience of other people, social institutions and truth itself. Dick will draw on his recent book, Seeing Through Cynicism: A Reconsideration of the Power of Suspicion (Intervarsity Press, 2006).

  Forays are held at the Spruce Hill Christian School auditorium at the corner of 42nd & Baltimore in University City, Philadelphia. Light nourishment and beverages provided.

  Dick Keyes has served as Director of L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts since 1979. He is the author of many articles and three other books including Beyond Identity: Finding Yourself in the Image and Character of God (2003); Chameleon Christianity: Moving Beyond Safety and Conformity (2003); and True Heroism in a World of Celebrity Counterfeits (1995).

• Feb 6
  • Foray

  · 7–9 pm

  Being Truly Human: The Image of God and Life in the World

  Dr. Douglas Green, Professor of Old Testament, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA · 0

  How does our core identity as created in God’s image affect the way we live? Doug Green uses the opening chapters of Genesis to show how understanding our purpose and makeup empowers us to glorify God in our world.

  Doug demonstrates how the fall involved a loss of glory as humans became beastialized by sin. Among other things, redemption involves the gradual restoration of our glory so that we might become truly human.

  Forays are held at the Spruce Hill Christian School auditorium at the corner of 42nd & Baltimore in University City, Philadelphia. Light nourishment and beverages provided.

  Douglas Green is Professor and Chair of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He holds a PhD from Yale University and an MDiv from Westminster. Before attending seminary, he worked as an attorney in his native country of Australia.

• Nov 7
  • Foray

  · 7–9 pm

  Lessons from a Genocide: The Gospel and Healing in Rwanda

  Dr. Diane Langberg and Felicien Nemeyimana · 3

  There will be a screening of the Academy Award-winning documentary, As We Forgive, followed by extended discussion.

  Forays are held at the Spruce Hill Christian School auditorium at the corner of 42nd & Baltimore in University City, Philadelphia. Light nourishment and beverages provided.

  Diane Langberg is a practicing psychologist, speaker and author, who has worked with trauma survivors and clergy for more than thirty years. She is Director of Diane Langberg & Associates in suburban Philadelphia. She also has spent much of the last year working with genocide survivors in Rwanda.

  Felicien Nemeyimana is Executive Director of Peacebuilding, Healing and Reconciliation Programme (PHARP) in Nairobi, Kenya. He is a native of Rwanda and lived through the genocide. Currently, he is a student at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA.

  Read the article by Diane Langberg, Rwanda: Lessons from a Genocide. Click here.

• Oct 14
  • Foray

  · 7–9 pm

  Jesus Watching Mad Men: A Gospel Model for Understanding Television, Film and Cyberculture Spectatorship

  Dr. Chris Simmons · 0

  Forays are held at the Spruce Hill Christian School auditorium at the corner of 42nd & Baltimore in University City, Philadelphia. Light nourishment and beverages provided.

  Chris Simmons is Executive Director of The Gospel & Culture Project. He holds an MDiv from Westminster Theological Seminary, an MA in cinema studies from NYU and a PhD from The University of Chicago. Before joining the GCP, he created and directed the program in film and digital media at Messiah College, Grantham, PA.