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 is 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 Carrol 

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)

What Makes a Marriage Flourish? 

Joshua Chestnut

Sept 19

Psalm 131: A Song for the Anxious and Exhausted

Joshua Chestnut

Sept 26

"The Word of Your Soul's Health": William Tyndale and the Bible in English

Esther Dalton

Oct 3

The Hard Problem of Consciousness, Part II: The Gift of ‘What it is Like’ to be You

Ben Keyes

Oct 10 

Are We 'Whittling Away' Character in our Society?

Dick Keyes

*Theme weekend: Click here for more details

The Glory and Challenge of Ordinary Humanness

Oct 17 - Being Human as an Act of Resistance

Ben Keyes

Oct 18

Morning session: The Dignity of Dependence

Need, Receive, Follow: Verbs for Being Human

Esther Dalton

Lovely, Finite, Connected: Adjectives for Being Human

Joshua Chestnut

Afternoon session: Opportunities to Practice Humanness 

Oct 24

Stones, Onions and ODES (3): Inspiration for the Hard Work of Being Human

Sarah Chestnut

Oct 31

The S Word: A Lexicon of Sin

Esther Dalton

Nov  7

“For every wound that Arda has suffered”: Wisdom and Lament in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth

Matthew Dickerson

Nov 14

Growing in Empathy Through Reading Fiction

Eric Johns

*Theme Weekend details

• If you would like to join us for the day on Saturday, please email us your reservation to southborough@labri.org the Thursday before. The seminar is free, although there is a suggested donation of $10.00 to offset the cost of lunch on Saturday.

• The Saturday portion of the seminar is given in conjunction with our lecture on Friday evening, however, attendance both days is not required.

• Limited overnight accommodations may be available at L'Abri. Please email southborough@labri.org if you would like to add your name to the waiting list for overnight accommodations, and you will be notified if/when space becomes available.

• 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