All Episodes

Holding onto our Humanity in the Age of the Machine - Daniel Miller - Friday Night Lectures - August 21, 2026

Christian Wisdom for the Age of AI - AJ Poelarends - Friday Night Lectures - August 14, 2026

Contemplative Prayer: an Evaluation of Centering Prayer - Imogen Lowe - Friday Night Lectures - August 7, 2026

Blaise Pascal’s Case for Christianity - Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D. - Friday Night Lectures - July 24, 2026

L'Abri 101: The Lordship of Christ Over ALL of Life - Greg Jesson & Jock McGregor - Friday Night Lecture - July 3, 2026

L'Abri 101: The Humanness of Spirituality - Greg Jesson & Jock McGregor - Friday Night Lecture - June 26, 2026

L'Abri 101: Living in the Shadow of the Fall. Greg Jesson & Jock McGregor - Friday Night Lecture - June 19, 2026

L'Abri 101: The Reality of the Supernatural - Greg Jesson & Jock McGregor - Friday Night Lecture - June 12, 2026

L'Abri 101: The Christian Faith as Truth - Greg Jesson & Jock McGregor - Friday Night Lecture - June 5, 2026

Christian Faith As Truth

Science and Biblical Authority - Hans Madueme - 2017 Rochester L'Abri Conference

Christianity in the Public Square - Greg Grooms - 2017 Rochester L'Abri Conference

The Transformative Power of Art: Music. Margie Haack - 2017 Rochester L'Abri Conference

Transformation of the City: Lessons from Utrecht. - Wim Rietkerk - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

Cultural Transformation: A Proposed Model - Bob Osburn - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

Corruption, Foreign Aid and International Development - Bob Osburn - Friday Night Lecture - November 21st

Medical Homicide and Perverse Incentives in Global Perspective - Kirk Allison - Friday Night Lecture - November 14th

Held in the Love of God: Discipleship and People with Profound Intellectual Disabilities - Dr. Phil Letizia - Friday Night Lecture - November 7th

Postmodernism's Failure to Assuage Your Fears - Greg Jesson - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

You Say You Want a Reformation: Cultural Engagement or Cultural Resistance? Evaluating the Benedict Option - Mike Sugimoto - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

The Transformative Power of Art: Story in Film - Denis Haack - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Culture

Abraham Kuyper A Model for Transformation - Wim Rietkerk - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

Can the Bible Reform the 21st Century West - Vishal Mangalwadi - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

Developing a Reformed Theology of Culture - Doug Groothuis - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

Sin Shamanism Suspicion and The State: Why Corruption Pervades & Devastates Societies Around the World - Bob Osburn - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

The Greatest Story Ever Retold: How 'The Chosen' addresses Ritual Purity in the Gospels - John Dunne - Friday Night - Lecture September 5th

Are Peaceful Politics Possible? - Ian Barrs.- Friday Night Lecture - August 29th

Neuroscience and the Meaning of Life - Andrea Leep Hunderfund - Friday Night Lecture - August 22nd

From the Ground Up...Lessons from our Soil - Beth Keister - Friday Night Lecture - August 15th

Why the Soul Matters - Prof. Charles Taliaferro - Friday Night Lecture - August 8th

Notes from the Bedside: Suffering, Death and the Human Condition - Amanda Daxon - Friday Night Lecture - 1st August

How Should Christians Be Tolerant - Dick Keyes - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

Spiritual Transformation Through Five Doctrines of the Reformation - Doug Groothuis - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

The Unexpected Reformation - Larry Snyder - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

The Reformed Roots of Modern Science - Greg Grooms - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

Ten Common Confusions that are Disastrous: Why Bad Ideas Have Bad Consequences - Greg Jesson - Friday Night Lecture - 27th June

The Smoking Oven and Flaming Torch of Genesis 15:17: Help from Mesopotamia - Mark Chavalas - Friday Night Lecture - 20th June

Disenchanted: Is the Romance Over for the Bride of Christ - Brian Swedburg - Friday Night Lecture - 13th June

Updates from the Universe: From Challenges to the Big Bang Model to Extra-terrestrial Life and More - AJ Poelarends - Friday Night Lecture - 6th June

Can I Be Spiritual Without Being Religious? - Dick Keyes - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

From Canon to Wikipedia and Back Again - Clarke Scheibe - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

Can We Keep it? - Marvin Padgett - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

In the Beginning Was the Word: The Influence of the Reformation on Art and Music - John Hodges - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

Salt and Light and the Transformation of Society - Dick Keyes - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

Europe: God's Experiment - Wim Rietkerk - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

The Book That Made Your World - Vishal Mangalwadi - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

Tolkien's Elves - The Ideal of Every Artist and Sub-Creator - Jerram Barrs - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian

The Intriguing Friendship Between Francis Schaeffer and Hans Rookmaaker - Edith Reitsema - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian

A Walk Through Aaron Copland's What to Listen for in Music - John Hodges - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian

Cultivating Beauty - Alison McGregor - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian

Finding a Voice Through the Arts - Ann Riggot - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian

Shakespeare and the Christian Walk - Keith Jones - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian

Beauty out of Ashes: Blues and Spirituals for Troubled Times - Bill Edgar - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian

The Exploration of Good and Evil in C.S. Lewis's Science Fiction Trilogy - Jerram Barrs - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian

The Apologetics of Beauty: The Aesthetic Vision of Edith Schaeffer - Mike Sugimoto - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian

'That we Might be Truly Human': Looking Back at Rookmaker's Legacy... and Looking Forward - Robb Ludwick - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian

Celebrating the Wisdom of Luci Shaw and the Witness of Poetry - Sarah Chestnut - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian -

The Sources of Tolkien's Inspiration in his Sub-Creation of Middle Earth - Jerram Barrs - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian

Apollo, Dionysus and Jesus: A Brief history of Western Aesthetics - John Hodges - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian

Created and Creating: A Mandate for Creativity and the Arts - Bill Edgar - 2018 Conference Highlights: For Glory and for Beauty - Creativity and the Christian

Elijah's Rest - The Three Basic Principles of Rest - InKyung Sung - 22nd November - Friday Night Lecture

The God Who Asks Questions - Karl Pacholke - 15th November - Friday Night Lectureure

Is God Worth a Second Look? - Frank Stootman - 8th November - Friday Night Lecture

What is Stewardship? - Dick Keyes - 2019 Conference Highlights: Common Grace for the Common Good - Living Life Vocationally

Finding Sabbath Rest in a World That Never Stops - Mary Frances Giles - 2019 Conference Highlights: Common Grace for the Common Good - Living Life Vocationally

The Changing Relationship of Young People to Work - Mardi Keyes - 2019 Conference Highlights: Common Grace for the Common Good - Living Life Vocationally

The Spirit at Work: God and Vocation - Clarke Scheibe - 2019 Conference Highlights: Common Grace for the Common Good - Living Life Vocationally

Singing Songs the Whole World Can Hear - Steven Garber - 2019 Conference Highlights: Common Grace for the Common Good - Living Life Vocationally

Living Life Vocationally: What the Church Must Do - Luke Bobo - 2019 Conference Highlights: Common Grace for the Common Good - Living Life Vocationally

Christian Vocation in the Sciences - Frank Stootman - 2019 Conference Highlights: Common Grace for the Common Good - Living Life Vocationally

Christian Vocation in the Humanities - John Hodges - 2019 Conference Highlights: Common Grace for the Common Good - Living Life Vocationally

Created to Make a Difference - Dick Keyes - 2019 Conference Highlights: Common Grace for the Common Good - Living Life Vocationally

King Solomon’s Mines: Who Constructed them and what do they have to do with Solomon? - Mark Chavalas - August 30th - Friday Night Lecture

Five-Part Social Change Model: Naive Formula or Useful Framework for Christian Social Engagement? - Bob Osburn - Friday Night Lecture - August 23rd

Naturalism, Christianity, and Other Worldviews - Charles Taliaferro - August 16th - Friday Night Lecture

Genocide: A Brief Consideration of Concept, Convention, International Law, and Current Contexts - Kirk Allison - August 9th - Friday Night Lecture

Redemptive Placemaking: Our call to faithfully build places for Community flourishing - Sara Joy Proppe - August 2nd - Friday Night Lecture

Francis Schaeffer on Cultural Engagement - Dan Guinn - 2020 Conference Highlights: For a Time Such As This - Grasping Our Cultural Moment

Swords & Plowshares: Living Christianity in a Time of war - Tim Padgett - 2020 Conference Highlights: For a Time Such As This - Grasping Our Cultural Moment

The Novelty of White Supremacy: A Modernist Conceit Disguised as an Ancient Creed - Tim Padgett - 2020 Conference Highlights: For a Time Such As This - Grasping Our Cultural Moment

Seeking the Welfare of the City: A Biblical View of Citizenship - Doug Groothuis - 2020 Conference Highlights: For a Time Such As This - Grasping Our Cultural Moment

Why Neo-Paganism is growing in the Modern West - Imogen Lowe - June 28th - Friday Night Lecture

Contemporary Challenges to Masculinity - James Lowe - June 21st - Friday Night Lecture

What is the Gospel of Thomas? - Ian Mills - June 14th - Friday Night Lecture

'Some Things Seem Better Left Unsaid' - Controversial Speech and the Special Challenge of the Imprecatory Psalms - Mark Ryan - June 7th - Friday Night Lecture

A World Safe for Diversity: Freedom to be Faithful in a World of Exploding Diversity - Os Guinness - 2020 Conference Highlights: For a Time Such As This - Grasping Our Cultural Moment

The West in Search of Meaning: Oral Book Reviews - Marvin Padgett - 2020 Conference Highlights: For a Time Such As This - Grasping Our Cultural Moment

Christians, Religious Liberty and Loving our Political Adversaries - Doug Groothuis - 2020 Conference Highlights: For a Time Such As This - Grasping Our Cultural Moment

Carpe Diem Redeemed - Os Guinness - 2020 Conference Highlights: For a Time Such As This - Grasping Our Cultural Moment

Thy Kingdom Come: Is Social Justice the End Goal of Christianity? - Clarke Scheibe - 2020 Conference Highlights: For a Time Such As This - Grasping Our Cultural Moment

Healing Political Polarization in America: Can Christians Help? - Dick Keyes - 2020 Conference Highlights: For a Time Such As This - Grasping Our Cultural Moment

'I Feel Therefore I Am' - Exploring the Affective Self - Jim Paul - 2020 Conference Highlights: For a Time Such As This - Grasping Our Cultural Moment

Humanism: The History of A seminal Idea - John Hodges - 2020 Conference Highlights: For a Time Such As This - Grasping Our Cultural Moment

Last Call for Liberty: How America's Genius for Freedom has become its Greatest Threat - Os Guinness -2020 Conference Highlights: For a Time Such As This - Grasping Our Cultural Moment

The Difficulty with the Love of God - Clarke Scheibe - March 29th - Friday Night Lecture

Remember the Lord, your God: Reflections on Memory and Faith - Lili Reichow - March 22nd - Friday Night Lecture

Modernity's Social Imagination: the Birth of the Social Sciences - Josué Reichow - March 16th - Friday Night Lecture

Intellectual Rountable: A Survey and Critique of Today's Countercultural Thinking - Mike Sugimoto - 2022 Conference Highlights: Image and Identity

The Secularization of Time - Guilherme de Carvalho - 2022 Conference Highlights: Image and Identity

Getting Social Justice Right: How Do We Truly Help Our Less-Privileged Neighbors? - Bob Osburn - 2022 Conference Highlights: Image and Identity

What is Critical Race Theory - Doug Groothuis - 2022 Conference Highlights: Image and Identity

Of Athens and Jerusalem - John Hodges - 2022 Conference Highlights: Image and Identity

A Christian Response to Human Rights Ideology - Guilherme de Carvalho - 2022 Conference Highlights: Image and Identity

The Failure of Liberalism to Stop Totalitarianism - Clarke Scheibe - 2022 Conference Highlights: Image and Identity

Critique of the Modern Self - Andy Patton - 2022 Conference Highlights: Image and Identity

Two Human Longings, Lost and Found - Ben Keyes - 2022 Conference Highlights: Image and Identity

Identity Found in God’s Likeness - Dick Keyes - 2022 Conference Highlights: Image and Identity

Classical Formation in Western Civilization - John Hodges - 2022 Conference Highlights: Image and Identity

Identity, Race and Gender: What Should a Christian Think? - Doug Groothuis - 2022 Conference Highlights: Image and Identity

The Center is Not Holding: The Modern Self and a Theology of Adoptive Identity - Mike Sugimoto - 2022 Conference Highlights: Image and Identity

The Rise of the Affective Field - Guilherme de Carvalho - 2022 Conference Highlights: Image and Identity

Personal Identity and its Shrinking Foundation - Dick Keyes - 2022 Conference Highlights: Image and Identity

Plant your apple tree: An organic farmer on Christian homesteading and the case for getting your hands in the dirt - Daniel Miller - November 17th - Friday Night Lecture

Mesopotamia and the Bible: A Comparison of Creation Accounts - Mark Chavalas - November 10th - Friday Night Lecture

2023 Conference Highlights: Higher Ed. - The Integration Of Faith And Learning - A Hard But Rewarding Task - AJ Poelarends

2023 Conference Highlights: Higher Ed. - The Art And Craft Of Whole Person Christian Formation: Learning Through Creative Work - Sarah Chestnut

2023 Conference Highlights: Higher Ed. - Aren’t They All Just Dead White Males? Why Read The Classics? - Peter Merz

2023 Conference Highlights: Higher Ed. - For The Welfare Of The University: Finding Ways To Fill Gaps In Higher Education - Dan Daugherty

2023 Conference Highlights: Higher Ed. - From Canon To Wikipedia And Back Again: A Call For A Coherent Education - Clarke Scheibe

2023 Conference Highlights: Higher Ed. - The (Naked) Woke Public University: Is This The Future Of Higher Education? - Bob Osburn

2023 Conference Highlights: Higher Ed. - Schaeffer At The U: Christian Study Centers As A Vanguard And A Shelter - AJ Poelarends

2023 Conference Highlights: Higher Ed. - Can America Be Reformed When The University Is The Source Of Darkness? - Vishal Mangalwadi

Beyond Genesis; Understanding the Nephilim Narrative from Mesopotamian Sources - Mark Chavalas - September 1st 2023 - Friday Night Lecture

Fantastic Wines and Whether to Drink Them: The Relevance of Alcohol in the Bible for Today - John Dunne - September 1st 2023 - Friday Night Lecture

The Collision between Faith and Knowledge: A Post-Crash Analysis - Greg Jesson - August 25th 2023 - Friday Night Lecture

The Art of Christian Faithfulness - Denis Haack - August 11th 2023 - Friday Night Lecture

Spider Webs of the Soul: Beauty and Savage Mercy in Flannery O’Connor’s ’Parker’s Back’ - Amanda Daxon - August 4th 2023 - Friday Night Lecture

2023 Conference Highlights: Higher Ed. - Responding to the Inevitable Unravelling of Higher Education - Greg Jesson

2023 Conference Highlights: Higher Ed. - The University Next Door - Christian Education in the Modern World of Identity Politics - Mike Sugimoto

2023 Conference Highlights: Higher Ed. - The Foundations of Liberal Education: On the Birth and Purpose of the Medieval University - John hodges - Rochester L’Abri Conference

2023 Conference Highlights: Higher Ed. - Western Education and its Telos Through Time - Peter Merz - Rochester L’Abri Conference

The Syriac Bible: Text, Translation, and Interpretation in the Other Early Church - Ian Mills - June 30th 2023 - Friday Night Lecture

The Mindless Machinery of Modernity - Jock McGregor - June 23rd 2023 - Friday Night Lecture

Narnia and the Atonement - Charles Taliaferro - June 16th 2023 - Friday Night Lecture

Science and Faith for the Rest of Us - AJ Poelarends - June 9th 2023 at Rochester L’Abri