Audio recordings of our past lectures.
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2024 Lecture: Lecturer: Dr. Stephen Schuler. The lecture title is “Til We Have Faces”
2023 Lecture: Lecturer: Dr. Holly Ordway of the Word on Fire Institute. The lecture title is “Tolkien's and Lewis's Friendship”
2022 Lecture: Lecturer: David C. Downing, Co-Director of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College in Illinois. The lecture title is “The Most Reluctant Convert”
2019 Lecture: Lecturer: Dr. Donald T. Williams, R. A. Forrest Scholar and Professor of English at Toccoa Falls College. The lecture title is “Ludicrous, Lacking, or Logical? The Validity of Lewis’s Trilemma.”
2018 Lecture: Lecturer: Dr. Justin Dyer, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri. He and a colleague have recently published CS Lewis on Politics and Natural Law (Cambridge, 2016), reviewed very favorably here in the NY Times.
2017 Lecture: Lecturer: Dr. John Stackhouse, The Samuel J. Mikolaski Professor of Religious Studies and Dean of Faculty Development, Crandall University in Moncton, New Brunswick.
2016 Lecture: Dr. Joseph Loconte, PhD, Associate Professor of History at The King’s College in New York City; Lecture topic: “J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: Finding Hope in the Cataclysm of War” (audio missing)
2015 33rd Lecture: Michael Ward, DPhil., Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford.
Other Lectures:
1983 Inaugural Lecture: The Late Dr. Paul Holmer, Yale Univ.
1984 Lecture: The Right Rev. FitzSimons Allison of South Carolina (audio missing)
1985 Lecture: Dr. Elving Anderson, Univ. of Minnesota
1986 Lecture: Prof. James Houston, Regent College, Vancouver
1987 Lecture: The Late Prof. George Connor, UTC
1988 Lecture: The Late Ms. Verna Dozier, Washington, D.C.
1989 Lecture: Dr. Lyle Dorsett, Beason Seminary
1990 Lecture: Dr. Owen Gingerich, Harvard
1991 Lecture: The Late Dr. Charles Hummel, author of The Galileo Connection
1992 Lecture: The Rev. Dr. Samuel Lloyd III, University of the South
1993 Lecture: The Rev. Dr. William Willimon of Duke Univ.
1994 Lecture: Dr. Nancy Tischler of Penn. State
1995 Lecture: The Rev. Dr. Roberta Hestenes of Eastern College
1996 Lecture: Ms. Marjorie L. Mead, Wheaton
1997 Lecture: Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III, Univ. of Georgia
1998 Lecture: Douglas Gresham, step-son of C. S. Lewis
1999 Lecture: Dr. Dallas Willard, Univ. of Southern California
2000 Lecture: Ms. Lucy Shaw, Poet
2001 Lecture: Dr. Harold Dean Trulear of Yale Univ. (the introduction has an audio problem, but it clears up when the lecture begins.)
2002 Lecture: Dr. David Lyle Jeffrey, Baylor Univ., Introduction by Dr. Wilfred M. McClay, UTC
2003 Lecture: Dr. Roger Lundin, Wheaton
2004 Lecture: Dr. Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen of Eastern Univ. (audio missing)
2005 Lecture: Gilbert Meilaender
2006 Lecture: Dr. Lamin Sanneh, Yale Univ. (audio missing)
2007 Lecture: Dr. Jean Bethke Elshtain, Univ. of Chicago
2008 Lecture: Dr. Charles Lippy of UTC (audio missing)
2009 Lecture: Dr. Mark Noll, Notre Dame
2010 Lecture: Dr. Timothy George, Beeson Divinity School (audio missing)
2011 Lecture: Dr. Peter Kreeft, Boston College, with introduction by Dr. Bryan Hampton of UTC
2012 Lecture: Dr. Ralph C. Wood, Baylor Univ. (audio missing)
2013 Lecture: Dr. Stephen Long, Marquette University, with introduction by Dr. Bryan Hampton of UTC
2014 Lecture: Ken Myers of Mars Hill Audio