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, AND AMY-JILL LEVINE. Dates, locations, and titles for these seminars are as follows:

• "RADICALLY FAITHFUL: Passionate Christianity Confronting Empire and Savage Inequality" with JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN & JOERG RIEGER, October 8 & 9, 2010, at All Saints Church in Pasadena, California. This event is in partnership with PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANS UNITING, The Rev. Peter Laarman, Executive Director, and ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH, The Rev. Ed Bacon, Rector. REGISTER NOW
• "PARABLES: By and About Jesus" with MARCUS BORG & JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN, February 18 & 19, 2011, in partnership with and being held at Anderson School of Theology for Laypersons in Anderson, South Carolina.
• "The Change that Changes Everything: Lifestyle-Based Spirituality" with Richard Rohr, April 8 & 9, 2011, in partnership with McMains Center for Spiritual Formation, First Methodist Church, St. James Episcopal Center for Spiritual Formation, The Red Shoes, and St. Joseph's Spirituality Center, all of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This seminar will be held at First Methodist Church, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.REGISTER NOW
• 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 2011 and 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:

• "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