Christian Education in a Secular Age Conference Briercrest College and Seminary October 28-29, 2021 Please note, all times listed are in Central Standard Time (CST).
Conference Chairs: Joy Demoskoff ([email protected]) Matthew Zantingh ([email protected])
Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021
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9:00-10:00 am Panel Title: Stories, Dreams, Panel Title: Christian Education and Allegory: A Secular Age in and Secular Society the English Classroom Chair: Darren Dahl Chair: Doug Sikkema Papers: Papers: Neal DeRoo
Arlette Zinck King’s University/Institute of King’s University Christian Studies “Teaching Allegory in a Secular “A Spiritual Task for Christian Age” Education in a Secular Age”
Paul Dyck David Buchanan Canadian Mennonite University Princeton Theological Seminary “Dream Worlds: Post-Secular “Towards a Tillichian Theory of Christian and Indigenous Stories Education and Secular Society” in the English Curriculum” Joel Hubick Luann Hiebert Institute of Philosophy (Leuven, Providence University College Belgium) “The English Literature Syllabus: “Question Preservation in A Creating a Christian Narrative Secular Age: How Christian through Student Readings” or Education can benefit from “How Milton and Bakhtin Phenomenology” changed the way I teach English Literature within a Christian perspective”
10:00-10:15 am Break
10:15-11:15 am Panel Title: Past, Present, and Panel Title: Human Flourishing in Future Times in the Study of Christian Educational Institutions History Chair: Cal Macfarlane Chair: Brian Froese Papers: Papers: Richard Hovey Eric Bateman Renovaré Canada and Briercrest Queen’s University Seminary “Medieval Studies in a Secular “Becoming Places of Incarnation: Age: Cultivating An Invitation to Our Institutions” Disconcertment” Mark Halvorson Joy Demoskoff Trinity Western University Briercrest College and Seminary “Christian Leadership as Being “History and the Apocalypse in Responsible for Human an Open Frame” Flourishing”
Ken Draper Alex Cheing Ambrose University Briercrest College and Seminary “Higher Time, Memory and “Information search among Canadian History” prospective Chinese students seeking Christian higher education in Canada”
11:15-11:30 am Break
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Roundtable: Teaching Roundtable: Educating Clergy Troublesome Texts in the Towards Wholeness Literature Classroom Chair: TBA Chair: Matthew Zantingh Participants: Participants: Margaret Clarke Rhoda Cairns Briercrest College and Seminary Briercrest College and Seminary Jason Mills Melanie East University of St. Michael’s College Tyndale University Beth Anne Fisher Tina Trigg Emmanuel College, Toronto King’s University School of Theology, University of Toronto Matthew Zantingh Briercrest College and Seminary
12:30-1:15 pm Lunch Break
1:15-2:15 pm Panel Title: Testing Taylor: Panel Title: Human Perspectives: Poetic Language, Narrative, and Self-Care, Significant Transcendence Relationships, and Counselling Chair: Grant Poettcker Chair: Joyce Bellous Papers: Papers: Brian Gregor Betty Bacon California State University, University of West Florida Dominguez Hills “The Footpath to the Gospel: “Religious Language in a Secular Significant Relationships” Age: Charles Taylor and Paul Ricoeur” Danielle Fluit ACTS Seminary/Trinity Western Robert Piercey University and Campion College at the Estera Boldut University of Regina ACTS Seminary/Trinity Western “The Secularist’s Progress: University Interrogating Taylor’s View of “Beyond Bubble Baths: How Narrative” Christian Humanism Can Transform the Secular Concept of Darren Dahl Self-Care for Therapists-in- Briercrest College and Seminary Training” “Testing Transcendence: Selfhood between Morality and Metaphysics in A Secular Age”
2:15-2:30 pm Break
2:30-3:30 pm Panel Title: Learning Locations: Visions of Place in Christian Higher Education Chair: Darren Gordon Papers: L. M. Ratnapalan Yonsei University (Korea) “A Secular Age in the non-West? Christian higher education in South Korea”
Jim Cresswell Ambrose University and Mark Chapman Tyndale University “Responding to Buffered and Disenchanted Learners: Educational Theory, Theology, and Research in Community-Based Research”
3:30-4:00 pm Break
4:00-5:30 pm Keynote Address Dr. Jens Zimmermann J. I. Packer Chair of Theology Regent College “The Challenge and Promise of Christian Humanism”
Friday, Oct. 29, 2021
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9:00-10:00 am Panel Title: Secular and Post- Panel Title: Scripture and Secular Narratives: A Historical Practice in a Secular Age
and Literary Approach Chair: TBA Chair: TBA Papers: Papers: Susan Wendel Doug Sikkema Horizon College and Seminary Redeemer University “‘Who Is My Neighbour?’: Re- “Marilynne Robinson: Hope for a reading The Good Samaritan (Post?)Secular Christian Story” Humanism” John Van Maaren Johanna Lewis Ruprechts-Karls-Universität Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Heidelberg (Germany) and “Teaching the Bible in the 21st Kevin Flatt Century: Depth of Analysis as Redeemer University Antidote for Polarization” “Narratives of Secularization in Leading Western Civilization Ray Yeo Textbooks” Prairie College “The Attitude of Faith as an Intellectual Virtue and Vice in a Secular Age”
10:00-10:15 am Break
10:15-11:15 am Panel Title: Communities, Panel Title: Theological Classrooms, and Faith Education Reflections on Science and Chair: Erin Gordon Technology Papers: Chair: Joel Houston Craig Allin Papers: Grace Christian School (PE) James Ungureanu “The Immanent Classroom: University of Wisconsin- Applying Taylor’s Explanation of Madison Perspective and Discussion in the “The Theological Origins of the Secondary Classroom” ‘Modern Self’: A New History of Science and Christianity” Joyce Bellous Taylor Seminary Truitt Wiensz “Christian Faith Education in a Briercrest College and Seminary Spiritual Age” “On the Theological Origins of Laplace’s Demon” Ted Newell Crandall University Grant Poettcker “The Power of Concentrated Briercrest College and Seminary Christian Community: Augustine’s “The Nova Effect, Technology, Monastic Community in the Late and Community: Charles Taylor, Roman Empire” Albert Borgmann, and Ivan Illich”
11:15-11:30 am Break
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Roundtable: Technology and Roundtable: Church Ministry in Spirituality in a Secular Age a Secular Age Chair: Joel Houston Chair: Blayne Banting Participants: Participants: Cal Macfarlane Blayne Banting Briercrest College and Seminary Briercrest College and Seminary
Joel Houston Jared Siebert Briercrest College and Seminary New Leaf Network
Richard Hovey Renovaré Canada and Briercrest Seminary
Jay Mowchenko Briercrest College and Seminary
12:30-1:15 pm Lunch Break
1:15-2:15 pm Panel Title: Learning Assessment in a Secular Age Chair: Chris Kayler Papers: Philip Mingay Kings University “Teaching Evaluations: Assessing Faith and Learning in a Secular Age”
Katie Steeves Trinity Western University “Teaching Sociology 101 in a Secular Age”
Emily G. Wenneborg Independent Scholar “Educating for Faithful Presence in the Midst of Pluralism”
2:15-2:30 pm Break
2:30-3:30 pm Panel Title: Teaching Islam in Panel Title: Crisis and Christian Colleges Opportunity in Modern
Chair: Tenyia Miller Contexts Papers: Chair: TBA F. Volker Greifenhagen Papers: Luther College at the University Peter Yoonsuk Paik of Regina Yonsei University (Korea) “Teaching Jewish, Christian and “Social Justice and the Sacrifice Muslim Scripture in a Secular of Christianity: Charles Taylor Age” and the Return of Paganism”
Fachrizal Halim Jason Mills St. Thomas More College at the University of St. Michael’s University of Saskatchewan College “Teaching about Islam and “Dredging The Shallows for Muslims in A Secular Canada: A Charles Taylor’s ‘Fullness’: Reflection from a Catholic Nicholas Carr, Human College” Flourishing, and Online Theological Education” Alan Guenther Briercrest College and Seminary Brian Froese “The History of Evangelicals Canadian Mennonite University Teaching Islam in an Increasingly Secular Age”
“Angels, Demons, and Bible Schools: Christian Humanism and the Fertility Crisis”