LIFE@Lynchburg | The Gift of a Skeptical Mind: Why Socrates Was Right About the Unexamined Life
Schedule
Wed Oct 22 2025 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Sydnor Performance Hall | Lynchburg, VA
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Asking questions, wondering why something is the way it is, needing to understand better what has been said before agreeing or disagreeing with it, are all by-products of a healthy skeptical mind that wants to know more than it knows and to come as close to truth as is possible for flawed, fallible human beings. The questioning mind is not only essential in scientific research, but in this lecture, we will explore why it is equally essential to being a spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually mature person for whom the joy of learning never grows old.Speaker Biography:
Dr. Jan Linn '03 HAA is an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He was the chaplain and an associate professor at Lynchburg College, now University of Lynchburg, for 10 years before serving as professor of the practice of ministry at Lexington Theological Seminary in Kentucky. He and his wife, Joy, also served as co-directors of the new clergy program for the Department of Religion at the Chautauqua Institution for two years. He was the inaugural dean of the School of Ministry for the Christian Church in the Upper Midwest region, where he helped design a special focus on theological education for commissioned ministers. He and his wife also served as co-directors of the new clergy program at the Chautauqua Institute from 2013 to 2015.
Linn has authored 21 books, including “What’s Wrong With The Christian Right” (Universal Publishers, 2004), “Evangelicalism and The Decline of American Politics” (Cascade, 2018), and “Unbinding Christianity: Choosing the Values of Jesus over the Beliefs of the Church” (Universal Publishers, 2020).
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Where is it happening?
Sydnor Performance Hall, Lynchburg, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
