THURSDAY COLLOQUY
(2002-03)

2002 (fall term)

• Thu, Sep 5: Jeremy van Deman on his summer experiences in South Africa.

• Thu, Sep 19: Ken Brown, “Flags in the Church: Should the Stars and Stripes go to Church on Sunday?”

• Thu, Sep 26: Bob Bowman, “Three Types of Theology”

• Thu, Oct 3: Kendall Rogers, “War on Terrorism from a German Lutheran Perspective”

• Thu, Oct 10: Steve Naragon, “There are two errors in the the title of this talk”

• Thu, Oct 17: Ken Brown, “Nietzsche in the West Wing: Morality and Foreign Policy in the Middle East”

• Thu, Oct 31: Bob Bowman, “Tangled Translations: What gets hidden, lost, emphasized, or distorted in rendering the Bible into English”

• Thu, Nov 7: David Bever (pol.sci. student), “Recognizing the Enemy”

• Thu, Nov 14: Dwight Beery (physics), “Scientific and Theological Thinking”

• Thu, Nov 21: Leonard Williams (political science), “In Defense of Anarchism”

• Thu, Dec 5: Nick Vermeulen (ethics student), “The Moral and Metaphysical Problems of Stem Cell Therapy”

• Thu, Dec 12: Christa Owens (social work student), “Philosophy and the Family”

2003 (spring term)

• Thu, Feb 20: Gayle Koontz (Professor of Theology and Ethics, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary), “Evangelical Peace Theology and Religious Pluralism: Assessing John H. Yoder’s Christian Particularity”

• Thu, Feb 27: Kendall Rogers, “Just War Theory: Can a war against Iraq be just?”

• Thu, Mar 6: Brian Peterson (economics), “ To Starve or not to Starve: The WTO, GMO’s and Agricultural Development in Africa”

• Thu, Mar 13: Tim McElwee (political science), “Justice or Just Us? The Promise of an International Criminal Court”

• Thu, Mar 20: Andy Rich (mathematics), “Undecidability in Arithmetic Systems.”

• Thu, Apr 3: Tom Boudreau (American University), “The War on Iraq: The US vs the UN?”

• Thu, Apr 10: Mitch Herniak (philosophy/economics student), “Heidegger and Fight Club”

• Thu, Apr 24: Shirley Glade, “ The Orthodox Icon as a Spiritual Window and Secular Mirror In Tsarist, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia”

• Thu, May 1: Abby Fuller (sociology), “The Meaning of May Day”

• Thu, May 8: Dale Brown (retired from Bethany Seminary), “The War on Terrorism and the Terror of God”
• Mon, May 12: Peter Steeves (Assoc. Professor of Philosophy, Depaul University), “The Simpsons: Towards a Postmodern Theory of Comedy.”