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2025 Symposium: Hospitality & Immigration
Join us in person or online, February 14-15, 2025, for our 2025 Symposium on the Theological Interpretation of Scripture.
How can Christian communities today live out the biblical call to extend hospitality to all people, including the immigrant? This timely dialogue among Bible scholars, theologians, and ministry practitioners, with extended opportunities for participant engagement.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Registration begins on November 1.
Presenters include:
- M. Daniel Carroll R.
Scripture Press Ministries Professor of Biblical Studies and Pedagogy, Wheaton College - Julia L. Fogg
Professor of Religion, California Lutheran University - Alberto La Rosa Rojas
Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics; Interim Director of the Hispanic Ministry Program, Western Theological Seminary - Ruth Melkonian-Hoover
Professor and Director, Political Science & International Affairs, Gordon College - Alexia Salvatierra
Academic Dean, Centro Latino; Associate Professor of Mission and Global Transformation, Fuller Theological Seminary - Cindy M. Wu
Managing Director, Mosaic Formation
Previous Symposium Topics
2023 Symposium: Creation Care
The Symposium on the Theological Interpretation of Scripture took place September 22 and 23, 2023 in-person on North Park University’s Chicago, IL campus and was also streamed online for registered participants. The theme was “Creation Care: Biblical Foundations and Practical Implications” and featured prominent scholars from around the world, click on the session titles below to view the recording of the presentation.
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- Session 1: J. Richard Middleton, “The Coming of the Shekinah: A Narrative-Sacramental Vision for Creation Care”
- Session 2: Amy N. Allan, “Pursuit of Harmony with Nature: Reading Genesis 1-2 through the Perspective of a First Nations Earth-Diver Creation Myth”
- Session 3: Presian Burrough, “Lordship, Care, and Salvation: Three Principles for a New Theology of Creation”
- Session 4: Paul de Neui, “Temptations of Eden: Complexities of Three-Dimensional Reconciling Mission”
- Session 5: Joseph Gordon, “’Taking up Serpents’: The Literacy, Canonical, Theological, and Existential Exigencies of Snake Handling in Creation Care”
- Session 6: Alice Hague, “Practicing Hope in a Changing World: Local Churches and Environmental Action”
We are very grateful for the significant work these scholars gave to preparing their papers and presentations for the Symposium. We are also grateful for the respondents who prepared and presented their response to the paper.
The edited papers and responses will be published in Ex Auditu in the spring of 2024. For more information on Ex Auditu and to order your copy, visit the Ex Auditu website. You can order Volume 37: Creation Care, as well as all previous issues from Volumes 1 through 36, on the Ex Auditu website.
2021 Symposium: The Bible and Politics
Below is the video archive of the sessions presented during the 2021 Symposium.
- Session 1: Stephen Chapman
- Session 2: Janel Kragt Bakker
- Session 3: Vincent Bacote
- Session 4: Colby Dickinson
- Session 5: Kay Higuera Smith
- Session 6: Timothy Milinovich
- Session 7: Jules Martinez
- 2019: Holy Land: Biblical Perspectives and Contemporary Conflict
Videos of the session from the event are available online. - 2018: Human Violence
Videos of the sessions from this event are available online. - 2017: Participation/Union with Christ
Videos of the sessions from this event are available online. - 2016: Science and Religion
Videos of the sessions from this event are available online. - 2015: Race and Racism
Videos of the sessions from this event are available online. - 2014: The Human Encounter with God
Videos of the sessions from this event are available online. - 2013: Urban Ministry
Videos of the sessions from this event are available at CovChurch.tv. - 2012: Family
- 2011: Money and Possessions
- 2010: Atonement