Christianity and the American Experiment
About this Event
Christianity & the American Experiment is a three-part summer conversation series exploring how different Christian traditions shape faithful engagement in public life. Each evening will feature a speaker drawing on the wisdom and practices of their tradition to consider the opportunities and challenges facing Christians as citizens today.
Rather than focusing on partisan politics, these conversations will explore how Christian formation shapes the way we participate in civic life. Whether you are deeply engaged in public affairs or simply curious about the relationship between faith and citizenship, we invite you to join the conversation.
07/08 - Dustin Messer
🕑: 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Christian Localism: Renewing Society Through Revitalizing Neighborhoods
Host: Dustin Messer
Info: As Alexander De Tocqueville taught us, the fabric of America is woven from local communities and held together by neighborliness. Technological, economic, and spiritual forces are uprooting citizens from their localities, thus fraying our societal fabric. The church can mend what's torn in America by engaging culture on a human scale: in neighborhoods.
07/15 Gannon Sims
🕑: 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Dissenters & Citizens: Why Baptists Championed Religious Freedom for Everyone
Host: Gannon Sims
Info: As a religious minority often viewed with suspicion, early Baptists learned that freedom secured only for themselves would never be secure for long. Their defense of liberty of conscience and religious freedom became a defining contribution to the American experiment. Drawing on this history, Gannon Sims explores how the Baptist tradition understood pluralism, why it mattered to the nation's founding, and what it might offer to all Christians seeking to engage public life faithfully today.
07/22 Fr. Joshua Whitfie
🕑: 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Faithful Speech in a Fractured Age: Eloquence, Charity, & the Christian Voice
Host: Fr. Joshua Whitfield
Info: Long before social media and twenty-four-hour news cycles, Cicero argued that healthy societies depend upon citizens capable of speaking wisely, persuasively, and for the common good. Drawing on this classical tradition and its Christian reception, Fr. Joshua Whitfield explores how eloquence, character, and virtue shape public life. What might Christians contribute to our civic discourse if they learned not only to hold strong convictions, but also to speak with wisdom, charity, and integrity?
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