Past Conferences and Guest Speakers

2023

Conference Theme:The Varieties of Spiritual Experience
Guest Speakers: Andrew Newberg

2022

Conference Theme:Trauma and the Environment: How Then Shall We Live?
Guest Speakers: Ann Pederson and Jennifer Gubbels

2021 (Cancelled for medical reasons)

2020

Conference Theme: In Whose Image? Perspectives from Intersections of Brain Science and Abrahamic Mindfulness
Guest Speaker: Michael Spezio

2019

Conference Theme: Christians, Climate, and Culture: Relationships, Tensions, and Resolutions
Guest Speaker: Katharine Hayhoe

2018

Conference Theme: Islam’s Quantum Challenge: Living Islam in the Age of Science
Guest Speaker: Muzaffar Iqbal

2017

Conference Theme: Deep Incarnation: From Cosmos to Committment
Guest Speaker: Niels Henrik Gregersen

2016

Conference Theme: Religion and Environment: The Case of Judaism
Guest Speaker: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

2015

Conference Theme: Interdisciplinary Theology and the Archeology of Personhood
Guest Speaker: J. Wentzel van Huyssteen

2014

Conference Theme: Human Uniqueness and the Image of God
Guest Speaker: Joshua Moritz

2013

Conference Theme: Becoming Human: Weaving Together Genetics and Personhood
Guest Speaker: Gayle Woloschak

2012

Conference Theme: Re-imaging the Divine Image: Humans and Other Animals
 Guest Speaker: Celia Deane-Drummond

2011

Conference Theme: Worrying About Evolution
Guest Speaker: Owen Gingerich

2010

Conference Theme: Evolution after the Religion Wars
Guest Speaker: Phil Clayton

2009

Conference Theme: The Limits of Perfection
Guest Speaker: Noreen Herzfeld

2008

Conference Theme: Science and Origins
Guest Speaker: Holmes Rolston

2007

Conference Theme: The Evolution of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Life
Guest Speaker: Ted Peters

2006

Conference Theme: Religion-and-Science as a Spiritual Quest
Guest Speaker: Philip J. Hefner

2005

Conference Theme: Cosmology, Evolution, and Resurrection Hope
Guest Speaker: Robert John Russell

2004

Conference Theme: Purpose, Evolution, and the Mystery of Life
Guest Speaker: John F. Haught

2003

Conference Theme: Dialogue/Religion and Science
Guest Speaker: Antje Jackelén

2002

Conference Theme: A Universe of Ethics, Morality and Hope
Guest Speaker: George Ellis

2001

Conference Theme: God, Evolution and the Soul
Guest Speaker: Nancey Murphy