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“Preparing The Next

Generation of Christian Pew College Society Scholars” Baptist University

Spring 2003 Schedule

PCS Conference with Paul Marshall, April 4-5! Plus DBU student papers, a concert with singer/song writer Kate Campbell, and a concluding banquet at LaMadeleine French Bakery and Café

Freedom. He has testified many times before Congress, lectured at the U.S. State Department, the Helsinki PP Commission, Asylum Bureaus of the II I.N.S., and spoken on human rights at I the Chinese Academy of Social EE Sciences, Beijing. He has also lectured in Canada, England, Israel, Lebanon, TT Cyprus, Austria, The Netherlands, Spain, AA Switzerland, Korea, Belarus, Australia, South Africa, Nigeria, Sudan, Malaysia, On April 4-5, 2003, the DBU Pew S Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia. S College Society will sponsor its sixth His latest books, released in annual student conference with special September 2002, are God and the guest speaker, Paul Marshall. Professor Constitution: Christianity and American EE Marshall is senior fellow at the Claremont Politics and Islam at the Crossroads. Institute and at the Center for Religious TT (see Marshall on back side)

DD Overnight Road Trip to “Art and Soul” OO Conference @ Baylor University, March 21-22! CC The DBU Pew College Society has constituted a central preoccupation T will take an overnight road trip to Baylor of many of the world's finest thinkers, T University for the “Art and Soul” writers, and artists. RR Conference on March 21-22, 2003. We Art & Soul 2003 will include will be staying in the Victorian Inn in public lectures and readings, writing III Waco. The PCS will pay the conference workshops, lecture-recitals, visual art NN tuition; each student is responsible for exhibits, film screenings, and a scholarly lodging and food at about $30.00-40.00 symposium, and will feature invited AA per person. guests such as: Kathleen Norris The theme of the Art and Soul (novelist, poet), Jeremy Begbie conference is “Mystery and Meaning in (University of St. Andrews/Cambridge), the Arts. Mystery pervades good art - Frederica Mathewes-Greene (author whether literary, musical, theatrical, or and speaker), Ralph McInerny visual. Indeed, the presence of mystery (University of Notre Dame and noted in the arts helps express the subtleties of philosopher and author of over fifty meaning and complexities of books), and Ralph Wood (Baylor interpretation that distinguish lasting University), and many others. works from the merely faddish. Don’t Miss This Profitable, Understanding the role of Community-Building, Enjoyable, Once-in- mystery - if not mysteries themselves - a-DBU College Career Opportunity!!!

“Cinematic Confabulations” Feb. 28 @ Angelika The Pew College [That is, movie talk — we eat, take in a film, and go to a café for a discussion!] Society We will ride the Dart Rail from interesting mix of independent films, the the Westmoreland to the Mockingbird Angelika became the cinema of choice Dr. David Naugle, station for dinner, and then take in a film for many filmmakers and film lovers. PCS Director at Angelika, then to Starbucks for Since its opening, the Angelika has

discussion. Meet on the parking lot become the most successful and well Dallas Baptist between Strickland and Mahler @ 5: 30 known arthouse in the . In University pm, Friday night, February 28. 1997, an Angelika Film Center & Café 3000 Mountain opened in , TX and another The original Angelika Film Creek Parkway opened in Dallas, TX in the summer of Center & Café opened in New York 2001. Dallas, City’s Soho district in 1989. Playing an 75211

PHONE: Friday Symposium Lecture Series (214) 333-5248 - Fridays, 12 noon, Learning Center 316 (972) 780-0626 “It is the task of every generation to reassess the tradition in which it lives, to discard what it Join us for weekly academic cannot use, and to bring into context…the FAX: presentations by DBU faculty and guest mosta special recent offer contributions that promotes to the a Great new (214) 333-5577 speakers as we participate in and Conversation.” —John M. Hutchins product. contribute to the “Great Conversation!” E- MAIL: You can also research [email protected] PCS 4390 Pietas et Doctrina II: Studies in [email protected] Monday nights, 5: 15-7: 45 pm Christian Scholarship -

In this class, Pew students will others. We will learn how the concept of be reading classic and contemporary Christian paideia, as well as Christian Pietas et Doctrina books on the subject of Christian education and scholarship in general,

Piety and Learning scholarship. Beginning with Plato, we will have been affected by modernity, and examine the Greek concept of paideia Spirituality and how a rebirth of interest in these areas (liberal arts education), and then move Scholarship has been underway in the last several on to see how this notion was developed decades. This class will prepare students by Christian thinkers such as Augustine, for graduate school and for callings as Luther, the Puritans, Newman, Lewis and Christian professors!

Marshall continued — “The Fear of the He is the author of the best-selling, award-winning survey of religious persecution worldwide titled Lord is the Their Blood Cries Out, released 1997. His speech introducing the International Religious Freedom Act in Beginning of the U.S. Senate was described as "a powerful and persuasive analysis" and an "exhaustive survey, "which simply cannot be ignored." Marshall is also the General Editor of Religious Freedom in the World: A Global Wisdom.” Report on Freedom and Persecution (2000), and author and editor of nineteen other books and booklets, Proverbs 1: 7 including The Talibanization of Nigeria (2002); Heaven is not My Home (1998); and A Kind of Life Imposed on Man: Vocation and Social Order from Tyndale to Locke (1996). “You shall love the He has also published forty scholarly articles, twenty briefs to government bodies, and hundreds of popular articles. His writings have been translated into Russian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Lord Your God Malay, Korean, Arabic and Chinese. with all Your Heart, He is in frequent demand for lectures and media appearances including interviews on ABC and with all Your Evening News; CBS Evening News; CNN; Fox; PBS; the BBC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation; Soul, and with all Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; and South African Broadcasting Corporation. His work has been the subject of articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Your MIND.” Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Times, Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, Christian Science Matthew 22: 37 Monitor, Weekly Standard, First Things, New Republic, Globe and Mail, Christianity Today, Decision, Reader's Digest and several hundred other newspapers and magazines. “In Christ are Visiting professorships include the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto; Catholic University, Washington D.C.; the Faculties of Law and of Philosophy of the Free University, Amsterdam; Satya Hidden all the Wacana University, Indonesia; the European University for the Humanities, Belarus; Fuller Theological Treasures of Seminary; J. Omar Good Distinguished Visiting Professor, Juniata College; and adjunct Professor in the Wisdom and Graduate Program in Philosophy at Rutgers University. Knowledge.” He has also been a senior fellow at the Institute of Religion and Democracy; Overseas Research Fellow for the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa; exploration geologist in the Canadian Colossians 2: 3 Arctic; forest fire fighter in British Columbia and an advisor to the Council of Yukon Indians. His hobbies include shark diving and photography.