FAITHANDREASON® seminars bring cutting-edge scholarship directly to people in churches and universities at an affordable cost. These events are intended to educate and to provoke critical thinking about religion. They also offer an opportunity to meet and dialog with like-minded people who also wish to challenge their own thinking about God and to learn more about Christianity and other religions. In the past several years, these events have grown to encompass community partners that help the D.L. Dykes, Jr. Foundation to present the seminar. This partnering of organizations and resources brings an opportunity for networking within a city or geographical area and ideally will forge a new set of connections that remains intact long after the seminar.

Future Seminars

FAITHANDREASON® Seminars for 2010, 2011, and 2012 feature scholars JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN & JOERG RIEGER, RICHARD ROHR, JOAN CHITTISTER, AND AMY-JILL LEVINE. Dates, locations, and titles for these seminars are as follows:

• God, the World, & the Gap Between: Finding a New Way to Tell the Story, with Joan Chittister at St. James Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on November 11-12, 2011.
  Pre-registration for the seminar with Joan Chittister has been closed. There will be limited space available for walk-in registrations on Friday evening and Saturday, so please arrive early and be aware that the event may sell out. Thank you.
• Amy Jill-Levine will be our featured FAITHANDREASON® Seminar scholar at an event in the Fall of 2012, in partnership with The Workshop at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in San Antonio, Texas. More information will be available soon.

We are currently working on additional seminars for 2012. We will post this information once it becomes available. Please continue to watch our website for additional information.

Past Seminars

Seminars featuring the FAITHANDREASON® scholars presented many different topics on historical Christianity, Progressive theology and the Emerging Church, and Human Rights and Justice issues in relationship to the region.

Some of the seminars in recent years include:

• "The Change that Changes Everything: Lifestyle-Based Spirituality" with Richard Rohr, April 8 & 9, 2011 at First Methodist Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• "Parables: By and About Jesus" with Marcus Borg & John Dominic Crossan, February 18 & 19, 2011, at the Anderson School of Theology for Laypersons in Anderson, South Carolina.
• "Radically Faithful: Passionate Christianity Confronting Empire & Savage Inequality" (2010) with John Dominic Crossan and Joerg Rieger in Pasadena, California
• "God & Imperial Power, Jesus & Economic Injustice" (2009) with John Dominic Crossan and Joerg Rieger in Richardson, Texas
• "The Human Spirit and the Times We Live in" (2009) with Joan Chittister and Richard Rohr in Houston and San Antonio, Texas
• "How the Synagogue Shaped the Jesus Story" (2008) with Bishop John Shelby Spong in Santa Fe, New Mexico
• "Mysticism, Empowerment and Resistance" (2006 + 2007) with Marcus Borg, Joan Chittister and John Dominic Crossan in Austin, Texas and Houston, Texas