Term Dates

Winter 2024: Jan 11th - March 28th

Summer 2024: May 16th - July 25th 

Autumn 2024: Sept. 5th - Nov 21st

LECTURE SCHEDULE

Lectures begin at 7:30 pm and are held at L’Abri Fellowship

49 Lynbrook Road, Southborough, MA 01772

Join us for tea and treats at 7:15pm

  • Jan 19 - To Respect Oneself as a Creature Part 2: Being in Process, Never ‘Arriving’ and the Elusiveness of Closure
    Joshua Chestnut

    Jan 26 - Understanding C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, Part II: The Many Roads to Unreality
    Ben Keyes

    Feb 2 - Trusting the Lord in Shattered Expectations: Reflections of a Missionary to Ukraine
    Jeridan Dyck

    Feb 9 - No Professional Humans: Amateur Spirituality and the Way of Love
    Sarah Chestnut

    Feb 16 - No lecture for this week - lectures will resume
    Friday the 23rd.


    Feb 23 - The Proverbs 31 Woman: Favored or Forsaken?
    Mary Frances Giles

    March 1- Yes and Amen: Examining the Fabric of Faithfulness
    Esther Dalton

    March 8 - The Book of Ezekiel: What is Going On?
    Dr. Donna Petter

    March 15 - The Book of Job and the Wild Edge of Sorrow
    Joshua Chestnut

    March 22 - Birds of the Kingdom, Part II: The Brains and Brawn of Migration
    Ben Keyes

  • Sept. 15
    To Respect Oneself as a Creature: Finitude, Dependence and Letting God Love Us
    Joshua Chestnut


    Sept. 22
    To Need is Human: Receiving, Yielding, Depending, and Other Uncomfortable Postures
    Esther Dalton


    Sept. 29
    Understanding C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters, Part I: A Bureaucracy of Hunger and Fear
    Ben Keyes


    Oct. 6
    Burned but Not Consumed: Thinking Through Divine Sovereignty and Human Action
    Joshua Chestnut


    Oct. 13
    Birds of the Kingdom, Part I: Life on the Wing
    Ben Keyes

    Click here to view the power point presentation

    Oct. 20
    Tasting goodness: the integration between subjectivity and objectivity
    Josue Reichow, worker at the South Brazil L’Abri -




    Oct. 27
    The Baptized Imagination 5: Prophet, Poet, Seer, Sage
    Esther Dalton

    Nov. 3
    What Does it Mean to be a Man?
    Phillip Johnston, former L’Abri worker, (Lecture will only be on Zoom at 4:00pm- there is no in-house lecture)

    Zoom Link Here

    Meeting ID: 820 2097 3340

    Passcode: sboro


    Nov. 10
    Ambiguity as Hospitality in Art
    Ben Keyes

  • May 19

    The Apostle Paul and the Problem with Selflessness

    Joshua Chestnut

    May 26

    Jesus, Our Model for Self-Control- Part II

    Ben Keyes

    June 2

    From Tripods to Selfie Sticks: Personal journey through photography

    Paul Reuter

    June 9

    The Baptized Imagination 4: Take Heed How You See

    Esther Dalton

    June 16

    A Preview of the forthcoming album Already Yours, by Ordinary Time

    Ben Keyes

    June 23

    Identity: in Gender, in General, in Jesus

    Dr. Brandon Unruh

    June 30

    Reconsidering the Revolution: Sex-Realist Feminism and the Dignity of Our Bodies

    Joshua Chestnut

    July 7

    Diversity, a Means Not an End

    Linny Dey

    July 14

    An Imagination for the Good: Can Art make Righteousness Plausible?

    Ben Keyes

Find all of Southborough L’Abri’s lectures here.