Upcoming Events, 2025-26
All presentations will take place in the Robinson Teaching Theatre at 4 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
Oct. 22, 2025: Kristin Kobes Du Mez – Cowles Auditorium
Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a New York Times bestselling author and professor of history at Calvin University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion and politics. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Religion News Service and Christianity Today, and has been interviewed on NPR, CBS and the BBC, among other outlets. She is the author of the bestselling book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. And her next book is Live Laugh Love, a cultural study of white Christian womanhood.
Nov. 13, 2025: Curt Thompson
Curt Thompson, M.D. is a psychiatrist in private practice in Falls Church, Va. He is the founder of Being Known, which develops teaching programs, seminars and resource materials to help people explore the connection between interpersonal neurobiology and Christian spirituality. Thompson is the author of Anatomy of the Soul: Surprising Connections Between Neuroscience and Spiritual Practices that Can Transform Your Life and Relationships. His book demonstrates how insights from interpersonal neurobiology resonate with biblical truths about God and creation, validating the deep human need for meaningful relationships as a key to a life of hope and fulfillment. He also produced a video series called "Knowing and Being Known: The Transforming Power of Relationships."
March 5, 2026: Sabrina Little
Sabrina Little is an assistant professor in the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture and Society at Ohio State University. Little earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at Baylor University and also studied at Yale Divinity School and the College of William & Mary. Her main areas of interest are virtue ethics, moral psychology and classical philosophy. She often writes about moral emotions, character education and the ethics of exemplarity. Her first book, The Examined Run (Oxford University Press), was released in March 2024. Little also ran professionally for seven years. She holds two American distance running records, was a World Championships silver medalist and was selected to represent the United States on five national teams.
April 8, 2026: Christine Emba
Christine Emba is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) where her work focuses on gender and sexuality, feminism, masculinity, youth culture and social norms. She was a staff writer at The Atlantic and an opinion columnist and editorial board member at The Washington Post. She’s also the author of Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, a book that explores what the sexual revolution got wrong and what we might do better, especially after the #MeToo movement. Earlier in her career, she was the Hilton Kramer Fellow at The New Criterion and worked as a deputy editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, where she focused on tech and innovation. She was named one of the world's top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine in 2022 and received the National Press Club's Nell Minow Award for Cultural Criticism in 2024. Emba grew up in Virginia and studied public and international affairs at Princeton.