Dr. Michael Ward, “the foremost living C. S. Lewis scholar and brilliant writer” (The Times Literary Supplement) and author of the book, Planet Narnia, will be speaking at the Big Stone Gap House, Thursday evening, 7:00 pm, on "C. S. Lewis: The Man and his Life."

Dr. Ward served as Chaplain of Peterhouse in the University of Cambridge between 2004 and 2007. He was resident Warden of The Kilns, C. S. Lewis's Oxford home, from 1996 to 1999. He studied English at Oxford, Theology at Cambridge, and has a Ph.D. in Divinity from St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Scotland. Dr. Ward's chief claim to fame, however, is that he handed a pair of X-ray spectacles to James Bond in the movie, The World Is Not Enough. See his website for details: http://www.michaelward.net/about

Vince Bacote (pronounced Bay-coat), Ph.D., is associate professor of theology and director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics at Wheaton College.

Dr. Bacote will speak in the Friday Symposium (Oct. 26, 2012) and will be the keynote speaker at our Fall Retreat, October 26-27, 2012.

His topics will be based on his book, The Spirit in Public Theology: Appropriating the Legacy of Abraham Kuyper (Baker Academic 2005).

For more info on Dr. Bacote, see: http://www.wheaton.edu/Academics/Faculty/B/Vincent-Bacote