30th Anniversary Conference October 13 15, 2016 Trinity International University, Deerfield, Illinois

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1 The 30th Anniversary Conference October 13 15, 2016 Trinity International University, Deerfield, Illinois

2 On behalf of the senior editors, the staff, and the board of The Fellowship of St. James, I am pleased to welcome you to our special 30th anniversary conference for Touchstone magazine. I pray that this unique gathering will encourage and inspire you in your witness to Jesus Christ, the only true Lord and Savior of the world. James M. Kushiner, Executive Editor special thanks to our sponsors: Please be sure to visit our sponsors tables!

3 MORE C H R I S TI A N I T Y 2016 The Sc hedule Unless otherwise noted, sessions are in the A. T. Olson Chapel Thursday, October 13, :00 P.M. Registration Opens 7:30 P.M. James M. Kushiner Welcome to More Christianity David S. Dockery Welcome to Trinity International University Mary Elizabeth Podles The Art of More Christianity Robert P. George The Gnostic Revival: How Should the Body of Christ Respond? Friday, October 14, :00 A.M. James Hitchcock The Great Divorce: Christianity & the Liberal Society 10:00 A.M. Break & Refreshments 10:30 A.M. Anthony Esolen Reclaiming Childhood: Rebuilding Christian Culture Among the Ruins 11:30 A.M. David S. Dockery Campuses for Christ: Recognizing Trends, Reclaiming Tradition & Renewing Christian Higher Education 12:30 P.M. Lunch Waybright Center Hawkins Dining Hall Q & A will follow presentations as time permits

4 T h e Sc hedul e 2:00 P.M. (continued) Russell D. Moore For the Bible Tells Us So: Reclaiming the Bible for Mere Christianity 3:00 P.M. Break & Refreshments 3:30 P.M. Thomas S. Buchanan I Muse on What Thy Hands Have Wrought: Reclaiming Science for Christ 5:30 P.M. 30th Anniversary Dinner Waybright Center Melton Hall (Tickets Required) 8:00 P.M. S. M. Hutchens On Mrs. Jongke s Porch: The Basis of the Fellowship in Real Time Saturday, October 15, :45 A.M. Patrick Henry Reardon Ecumenical Theological Rhetoric: Speaking the Truth in Love 9:30 A.M. Leon J. Podles A Church in Full: Reaching Men and Women with the Gospel 10:15 A.M. Break & Refreshments 10:45 A.M. Allan C. Carlson Family Matters: Domestic Altars & Godly Offspring 11:30 A.M. James M. Kushiner The Future of More Christianity 11:45 A.M. Conference Concludes Q & A will follow presentations as time permits Audio recordings of sessions will be available at

5 Speaker Bios Thomas S. Buchanan, Ph.D., is the George W. Laird Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Delaware. He has studied at UCSD, Northwestern University, and MIT, and has held visiting professorships at the University of Western Australia and the University of Aix-Marseille. He has served as department chairman, deputy dean, and institute director, president of the American Society of Biomechanics, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Biomechanics. He is on the Board of Trustees of Saint Katherine College, the editorial board of Touchstone, and the board of The Fellowship of St. James. Allan C. Carlson earned his Ph.D. in Modern European History from Ohio University. He is the president emeritus and founder of The Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society in Rockford, Illinois, where he serves as editor of The Family in America. He was also a visiting professor of history at Hillsdale College in Michigan. He has written extensively on issues of family and society. Among his most recent publications are Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control ; and Conjugal America: On the Public Purpose of Marriage. His work has been published in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. He is a senior editor of Touchstone. David S. Dockery is the president of Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois; he served for 18 years as president of Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas system. He is the author or editor of 35 books, including Renewing Minds and Faith and Learning, and he serves as the New Testament editor for the New American Commentary series, and general editor for Crossway s series on Reclaiming the Christian Intellectual Tradition and the forthcoming Holman Worldview Study Bible. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, he and his wife Lanese have three married sons and six grandchildren. He is a member of the board of The Fellowship of St. James. Anthony Esolen is professor of English at Providence College in Rhode Island. He holds his M.A. and Ph.D. in literature from the University of North Carolina. His recent books include: Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child (ISI Press), The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization (Regnery Press), and his newest work, Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child (ISI Press). A senior editor of Touchstone, he also is a regular contributor to The Claremont Review, First Things, Catholic World Report, Magnificat, This Rock, and Latin Mass. He has translated Dante s Divine Comedy for the Modern Library.

6 Speaker Bios (continued) Robert P. George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and the founder and director of Princeton s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. A native of West Virginia, he holds his JD and MTS from Harvard s Law and Divinity Schools and his D.Phil. from Oxford University. A senior editor of Touchstone, his books include Clash of Orthodoxies, Conscience and Its Enemies, and What Is Marriage: Man and Woman: A Defense. He has served as a member of the President s Council on Bioethics and as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights; he now serves on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. James Hitchcock is professor emeritus of history at St. Louis University, his alma mater. He holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. He writes and lectures frequently on church issues. He is a founding board member of The Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, a senior editor of Touchstone, and a contributor to The Human Life Review. His books include What Is Secular Humanism?, Recovery of the Sacred, the two-volume work The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life (Princeton, 2004), and History of the Catholic Church (Ignatius Press, 2012). The husband of the late Helen Hull Hitchcock, he lives in St. Louis and has four adult daughters. S. M. Hutchens received his Ph.D. from the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. He served as a reference librarian for twenty years, retiring in 2015 to become Touchstone s book review editor. He has been the chairman of the board of The Fellowship of St. James and is a senior editor of Touchstone, in which most of his writing appears. He has also published essays and reviews in The New Oxford Review, The Congregationalist, The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, The Religion and Society Report, The Evangelical Catholic, Sursum Corda, Books and Culture, and The New Atlantis. He and his wife Mary live near Racine, Wisconsin, and have two daughters. James M. Kushiner is the executive editor of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, which began in 1986 as an occasional newsletter. He developed Touchstone into a bimonthly magazine in In 2006 he launched Salvo magazine, a quarterly of which he is also executive editor. He edited Creed & Culture: A Touchstone Reader (ISI Books) and edited with William Dembski Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design (Brazos Press). He serves as the executive director of The Fellowship of St. James. He lives in Chicago with his wife Patricia. They have six children and twelve grandchildren.

7 Russell D. Moore is president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Prior to 2013, he served as provost and dean of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he also taught theology and ethics. A senior editor of Touchstone, his books include Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches; Tempted and Tried: Temptation and the Triumph of Christ; and Onward: Engaging the Culture Without Losing the Gospel (Christianity Today s Book of the Year Award, 2015). The Wall Street Journal called him vigorous, cheerful, and fiercely articulate. A native of Mississippi, he and his wife Maria are the parents of five sons. Leon J. Podles holds a Ph.D. in Old English and Old Icelandic from the University of Virginia. His books include The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity and Sacrilege, an in-depth look at sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. His latest book is Meek or Macho: Men and Religion, due out in 2017 from St. Augustine s Press. A senior editor of Touchstone, his work has also appeared in such publications as America, The American Spectator, and Crisis. After serving as a federal investigator for 20 years, he founded the Crossland Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing Christian culture through education. He and his wife Mary are the parents of six children. Mary Elizabeth Podles, a Pittsburgh native, graduated from Wellesley College and pursued postgraduate studies in art history at Columbia University. She has curated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington; most recently, she acted as the curator of Renaissance and Baroque art at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Since retiring, she has continued to engage in her field by writing and lecturing. She is on the board of The Fellowship of St. James, and writes the popular Touchstone column on Christian art, A Thousand Words. She and her husband Leon have six children, whom they home-schooled, and two grandchildren. Patrick Henry Reardon, archpriest of All Saints Orthodox Church in Chicago, Illinois, studied at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, and St. Tikhon s Orthodox Seminary in South Canaan, Pennsylvania. His writing has appeared over the past four decades in many publications, including Touchstone, of which he is a senior editor. He has also written many books, including Christ in the Psalms, Christ in His Saints, commentaries on Genesis, Job, Chronicles, and the Wisdom of Solomon, and the first volume in a trilogy, Reclaiming the Atonement: The Incarnation. Father Patrick lives in Chicago with his wife Denise.

8 The Touchstone editors, staff, and members of the board of The Fellowship of St. James wish to thank the many donors, volunteers, and generous friends who have made Touchstone possible over the years. We especially thank Leon and Mary Elizabeth Podles for their generous support over the last twenty years, without which Touchstone would not have been possible. The Fellowship of St. James is grateful to Trinity International University for its generous provision of its facilities for our conference. Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity is published by Celebrating 30 years of Touchstone!