Term Dates

Fall Arts Retreat: Sept 11th-13th

Fall 2026: Sept 15th - Nov 19th

Winter 2027: Jan 7th-March 18th

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

Lectures are free and open to the public

To listen to any past lectures, please visit our podcast or the L’Abri Ideas Library

  • *Soup Supper at 6PM: Come for dinner, stay for the lecture Please join us for a soup supper before the lecture on these Fridays: Oct 2nd & Nov 6th Please RSVP by Thursday before the lecture - Southborough@labri.org

    Sept 18- Joshua Chestnut

    Mental Health as Membership, Part One: Minds, Machines and Shalom 

    Sept 25- Esther Dalton

    "Joy Something Gigantic": Ventures into the Theology of Enjoyment and the Practice of Praise

    Oct 2- Ben Keyes (Soup Supper)*

    Do We Dare Bargain with God?

    Oct 9- Sarah Chestnut

    "I think we might be spa people," and Other Surprises from a Summer Sabbatical

    Oct 16- Joshua Chestnut

    The Human Need for Kindness

    Oct 23- Esther Dalton and Emily Fellows

    "Heartbreaking, Fabulous, Lovely World": Discovering enchanted reality in the novels of Elizabeth Goudge

    Oct 30- W Curt LaFrance Jr, MD, MPH

    Neuropsychiatric Ghost Stories

    Nov 6- Dick Keyes (Soup Supper)*

    What Does it Mean To Be Shameless?

    Nov 13- Ben Keyes

    Birds of the Kingdom, Part IV: How to Attract a Mate, and Other Mysteries of Sexual Selection

  • Jan 16 

    Why is There Never Enough Time in the Day? Staying Human in an Accelerating World. 

    Joshua Chestnut


    Jan 23  

    Creativity’s Aid or Undoing?: The Use of Generative AI in Art

    Ben Keyes 


    Jan 30  (Join us for soup supper at 6PM - Just email us and let us know that you would like to join)

    What do You do With the Envy You Feel?

    Sarah Chestnut


    Feb 6  

    The Day of Small Things: Moments, Manners, and Matters of Building a Life

    Esther Dalton


    Feb 13 

    Is There a Christian Challenge to the Culture War?

    Dick Keyes


    Feb 20 

    "Getting In and Getting Out": Is Escape through Literature a Good Thing?

    Emily Fellows


    Feb 27 (Join us for soup supper at 6PM - Just email us and let us know that you would like to join)

    The Lesson of the Fig Tree (Jesus' Favorite Tree?)

    Esther Dalton


    Mar 6 

    Habitation of Wonder: Tenanting Beauty, Imagining Justice

    Abigail Carroll 


    Mar 13 

    Friendship with God 

    Mary Frances Giles


    Mar 20 (Join us for soup supper at 6PM - Just email us and let us know that you would like to join)

    To Set Out and to Come Home: Two Deep Human Longings

    Ben Keyes


    • May 30th - Go Slow and Repair Things: Reading Paul's Letter to the Ephesians in Dark Days

      • Given by Joshua Chestnut

    • June 6th - A Beginner’s Guide to the Hard Problem of Consciousness

      • Given by Ben Keyes

    • June 13th - Relatable Heroism: The Power of Literary Weaklings

      • Given by Emily Fellows

    June 20th & 21st Theme Weekend - A Hall of Portraits: Imitating Christ Through Imitating the Saints

    • Friday, June 20th - Heroes, New and Used

      • Given by Dick Keyes

    • Saturday AM - "Often a Skylark Comes and Sings": The Spiritual Formation of Corrie ten Boom

      • Given By Marta Crilly

    • Saturday, PM - Two Portraits -

    • “Pray for those who persecute you”: The life of civil rights worker Fannie Lou Hamer

      • Given by Ben Keyes

    • There Are Many Ways to Say I Love You: Jesus and Mr. Rogers on the Power of Gentleness

      • Given by Joshua Chestnut

    • June 27th - The Incarnation as Interruption

      • Given by Ben Keyes

    • July 4 (holiday) - No lecture this week

    • July 11th - How to Be a Guest

      • Given by Esther Dalton

    • July 18th - The Promise of Zion in Isaiah: God's vision for the Nations

      • Given by Dr. Tom Petter

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