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home : audio files of past lectures : MacLaurin Campus Lectures
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Each year, the Institute records most of our 15-20 events. The following lectures are available as free audio mp3 files. To listen to the lectures, you will need software capable of playing mp3 files, such as Microsoft Windows Media Player or Quicktime. All of these files are copyrighted by the MacLaurin Institute, unless otherwise noted. Please contact the Institute to receive permission to use any of these recordings for large-group settings.
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- March 25th, 2009 - Robert Osburn
A Christian Vision of Nation Building
- March 9th, 2009 - Honorable Judge Edith Jones
The Legacy of Richard John Neuhaus
- January 23rd, 2009 - Daniel Sulmasy
Spirituality in Health Care: The Rebirth of the Clinic
- November 12th, 2008 - Ken Melrose
A CEO's Journey of Servant Leadership
- October 23rd, 2008 - Dallas Willard
Theology and Worldview in the Research Project
- October 17th, 2008 - Wilfred McClay
Thoughts on Christian Citizenship
- October 3rd, 2008 - David Gushee
Evangelicals and Human Rights: Problems and Prospects for the 21st Century
- September 26th, 2008 - Makoto Fujimura
The Extravagance of Hope: The Mediating Role of Art in Culture Part 2
- September 26th, 2008 - Makoto Fujimura
The Extravagance of Hope: The Mediating Role of Art in Culture Part 1
- May 1st, 2008 - Dr. Walter Benjamin
Population Demographics: Ideologies in Conflit
- April 7th, 2008 - Dr. John Witte
The Rights and Limits of Proselytism in the New Religious World Order
- March 28th, 2008 - Dr. Fred Van Dyke
Troubling Questions in Conservation Biology: Do Value and Purpose Matter?
- March 12th, 2008 - Doug Kmiec
Protecting Religious Exercise
- March 12th, 2008 - Doug Kmiec
Fourth Annual Faith and Law Lecture
- February 22nd, 2008 - Dr. David Cowan
Economic Parables: The Monetary Teachings of Jesus
- December 6th, 2007 - David Miller
Business Ethics: Succeeding Without Selling Your Soul
- November 16th, 2007 - Roger Lundin
Modern Literature and the Question of Belief
- November 8th, 2007 - Stanley Hauerwas
Theological Knowledge and the Knowledges of the University (Part 2)
- November 8th, 2007 - Stanley Hauerwas
Theological Knowledge and the Knowledges of the University (Part 1)
- November 2nd, 2007 - Udo Middelmann
The Innocence of God
- October 17th, 2007 - W. Bradford Wilcox
Wedded Bliss: What Makes for Happy Marriages
- October 5th, 2007 - Gayle Reed
Interpersonal Forgiveness: What's So Good About Loving Your Enemy?
- September 21st, 2007 - Chuck Chalberg and Dale Ahlquist
Dueling with Darwin: A Night with GK Chesterton
- April 19th, 2007 - Judith Dean
Second Annual Faith and Economics Lecture: "Why Trade Matters to the Poor"
- April 12th, 2007 - Richard Hays
Sense and Non-sense in Recent New Testament Scholarship
- April 12th, 2007 - Richard Hays
Turning the World Upside Down: Israel's Scripture in Luke-Acts
- March 22nd, 2007 - David Bentley Hart (with a response by Timothy Brennan)
Nihilism and Freedom: Is There a Difference? (Lecture)
- March 22nd, 2007 - David Bentley Hart (with a response by Timothy Brennan)
Nihilism and Freedom: Is There a Difference? (Q&A)
- March 2nd, 2007 - Francis Beckwith
Natural Law, Natural Rights, and the Darwinian Challenge
- March 1st, 2007 - Francis Beckwith
Third Annual Faith and Law Lecture, Disenfranchising Believers: How the Federal Courts’ Religious Motive Test Violates Religious Liberty
- February 23rd, 2007 - Paul Marshall
First Annual Faith and Human Rights Lecture, From Exile to Torture: The Global Scope of Religious Persecution - Q&A
- February 23rd, 2007 - Paul Marshall
First Annual Faith and Human Rights Lecture, From Exile to Torture: The Global Scope of Religious Persecution - Lecture
- February 1st, 2007 - Mimi Haddad
Women in the Great Missionary Movements: What God Did for Women That Plato Never Could
- January 19th, 2007 - Robert Orr
End of Life Care: Autonomy, Futility, and Knowing Where to Draw the Line
- December 6th, 2006 - John Calvert
Is It Constitutional for the State to Endorse or Establish Materialism?
- November 30th, 2006 - Charles Shreffler and Edward Tabash
Debate on Church & State: Does the First Amendment Require the Separation of Church and State? (Part 2)
- November 30th, 2006 - Charles Shreffler and Edward Tabash
Debate on Church & State: Does the First Amendment Require the Separation of Church and State? (Part 1)
- November 17th, 2006 - Ralph Wood, with a response from Edward Griffin
Flannery O'Connor and the Fundamentalist South (Q&A)
- November 17th, 2006 - Ralph Wood, with a response from Edward Griffin
Flannery O'Connor and the Fundamentalist South (lecture)
- November 10th, 2006 - Richard Swinburne
God and Morality (lecture)
- November 1st, 2006 - Udo Middelmann
What America Can Learn From Secular Europe: Reflections of a Transatlantic Christian Thinker (Q&A)
- November 1st, 2006 - Udo Middelmann
What American Can Learn From Secular Europe: Reflections of a Transatlantic Christian Thinker (lecture)
- October 20th, 2006 - Mustafa Akyol and Terry Nichols
The Pope and Islam (lecture)
- October 20th, 2006 - Mustafa Akyol and Terry Nichols
The Pope and Islam (Q&A)
- October 19th, 2006 - Denyse O'Leary and Mustafa Akyol
International Journalists' Forum on Intelligent Design - Q&A
- October 19th, 2006 - Denyse O'Leary and Mustafa Akyol
International Journalists' Forum on Intelligent Design - Lecture
- October 10th, 2006 - Anthony Esolen
Shakespeare's 'Tempest' and the Miseducation of American Youth
- April 21st, 2006 - Michael Novak
The Universal Hunger for Liberty: Why the Clash of Civilizations Is Not Inevitable
- April 1st, 2006 - John Patrick
The Myth of Moral Neutrality - lecture at Bethel University
- March 30th, 2006 - John Patrick
The Unbearable Lightness of Society and Its Challenge to Modern Medicine
- March 8th, 2006 - Kevin Hasson
The Right to Be Wrong: Why the Pilgrims and the Park Rangers Are a Threat to Religious Liberty
- February 16th, 2006 - Vishal Mangalwadi
An Indian Explores the Soul of Western Civilization
- January 27th, 2006 - Randy Moore
What Students Believe and What Students Are Taught About Evolution and Creationism in Minnesota
- January 27th, 2006 - Robert Spitzer
Toward a Philosophy of the Pro-Life Movement: Personhood, Rights and 'Purpose in Life'
- December 8th, 2005 - Dan Barker and Bob Osburn
Debate: Does Religion Benefit Society? Part II
- December 8th, 2005 - Dan Barker and Bob Osburn
Debate: Does Religion Benefit Society? Part I
- November 18th, 2005 - Richard Winter
In Pursuit of the Perfect Body: The Pressures and Perils
- November 18th, 2005 - Richard Winter
The Pursuit of Excellence and the Perils of Perfectionism
- October 28th, 2005 - Father Richard John Neuhaus
Culture Wars and Public Philosophy - Lecture
- October 28th, 2005 - Father Richard John Neuhaus
Culture Wars and Public Philosophy - Q and A
- October 27th, 2005 - Michael Kent
Intelligent Design, Methodological Naturalism, and the Integrity of Science
- October 7th, 2005 - Greg Ganssle
Faith, Reason and the Knowledge of God
- September 30th, 2005 - Michael Behe
Toward an Intelligent Understanding of the Intelligent Design Hypothesis
- April 19th, 2005 - Robert George
The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion and Morality in Crisis
- March 22nd, 2005 - Jeremiah Reedy
John Paul II on Free Markets, Socialism and Economics
- March 8th, 2005 - Udo Middelmann
Neither Machine Nor Beast: The Wonder of Being Human
- January 27th, 2005 - Nigel Cameron
Therapeutic Cloning: Why We Need a Global Ban
- January 19th, 2005 - James Calvin Schaap
Whither?--The Genre of Literature in a Media Age
- December 6th, 2004 - Del Ratzsch
Intelligent Design: What Is Science Permitted to Think?
- November 5th, 2004 - Dallas Willard
Moral Education in the Academy: Optional or Necessary?
- October 19th, 2004 - Teresa Stanton Collett
Divine Governance, Self Governance, and the American Way
- October 8th, 2004 - Don Kistler
Have the Puritans Gotten a Bad Rap?
- September 24th, 2004 - John Angus Campbell
Debating Darwinism: Science as Argument and Civic Education (Lecture)
- September 24th, 2004 - John Angus Campbell
Debating Darwinism: Science as Argument and Civic Education (Q and A)
- September 16th, 2004 - Dale Carpenter and Glenn Stanton
Gay Marriage Debate
- April 21st, 2004 - Ken Myers
Media, Music and the Meaning of Life
- March 9th, 2004 - Jean Bethke Elshtain
Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World
- January 20th, 2004 - John Patrick
Pursuing Justice and Community: Hope for the Unborn
- October 22nd, 2003 - Phillip Johnson
Asking the Right Questions About Evolution
- October 17th, 2003 - Cal Seerveld
The Halo of Human Imagination
- October 7th, 2003 - Michael Paulsen
The Rightful Role of Religion in the Public University
- April 22nd, 2003 - Udo Middelmann
Can the Clash of Civilizations Be Avoided?
- April 4th, 2003 - Peter Kreeft
10 Uncommon Insights About Evil in the Lord of the Rings
- February 12th, 2003 - Kurt Schaefer
American Experiments in Poverty Policy
- January 16th, 2003 - Scott Klusendorf
Abortion and Women's Rights
- December 6th, 2002 - Alvin Plantinga
Against Materialism
- October 11th, 2002 - David Aikman
US-Chinese Relations in the Global Setting
- March 8th, 2002 - Ravi Zacharias
Christian Apologetics in the 21st Century
- February 12th, 2002 - Jean Bethke Elshtain
Who Are We?: Human Prospects in an Age of Terror
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