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The Faith & Life Lectures are open and welcoming public forums where nationally known speakers reflect on how Christian faith intersects with different dimensions of everyday life. Comments from past attendees include:

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04/16/2026

Join us tonight at 7:00 pm for the final installment of this year's Faith & Life lecture series! Francis Collins will be presenting on Faith and Science: Allies, Not Enemies.

Francis Collins is an American physician-scientist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He served for 32 years at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and as director from 2009 to 2021.

Before being appointed director of the NIH, Collins led the Human Genome Project and other genomics research initiatives as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the 27 institutes and centers at NIH. Before joining NHGRI, he earned a reputation as a gene hunter at the University of Michigan. He has been elected to the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science.

Collins has written books on science, medicine, and religion, including the New York Times bestseller The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (2007). After leaving the directorship of NHGRI and before becoming director of the NIH, he founded and served as president of The BioLogos Foundation, which promotes discourse on the relationship between science and religion and advocates the perspective that belief in Christianity can be reconciled with acceptance of evolution and science, especially through the theistic evolution idea that the Creator brought about his plan through the processes of evolution. In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Collins to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

Collins most recent book is The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust (2024). In this book, he writes about how the divisiveness in the country, driven largely by our politics, is warping our thinking, driven by false information that fuels hatred and mistrust. He believes, though, that all is not lost.

This lecture is free and open to the public! For more information, visit faith-and-life.org

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04/09/2026

Join us on April 16th at 7:00 pm for the final installment of this year's Faith & Life lecture series! Francis Collins will be presenting on Faith and Science: Allies, Not Enemies.

Francis Collins is an American physician-scientist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He served for 32 years at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and as director from 2009 to 2021.

Before being appointed director of the NIH, Collins led the Human Genome Project and other genomics research initiatives as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the 27 institutes and centers at NIH. Before joining NHGRI, he earned a reputation as a gene hunter at the University of Michigan. He has been elected to the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science.

Collins has written books on science, medicine, and religion, including the New York Times bestseller The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (2007). After leaving the directorship of NHGRI and before becoming director of the NIH, he founded and served as president of The BioLogos Foundation, which promotes discourse on the relationship between science and religion and advocates the perspective that belief in Christianity can be reconciled with acceptance of evolution and science, especially through the theistic evolution idea that the Creator brought about his plan through the processes of evolution. In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Collins to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

Collins most recent book is The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust (2024). In this book, he writes about how the divisiveness in the country, driven largely by our politics, is warping our thinking, driven by false information that fuels hatred and mistrust. He believes, though, that all is not lost.

This lecture is free and open to the public! For more information, visit faith-and-life.org

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03/26/2026

Join us tonight, March 26th at 7:00 pm for the fourth installment of our Faith & Life lecture series! Lee C. Camp will be presenting on Faith and Technology: What Does it Mean to be Human?

Lee C. Camp writes:

"I am an Alabamian by birth, raised in the tail end of the Appalachians in the north eastern quadrant of the state, full of long-leaf pines and red-clay dirt and rolling hills. After leaving home I completed an undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Lipscomb University (B.A., 1989) in Nashville, Tennessee, where I fell in love with the wonderful woman named Laura who became my wife. We made our way out west where I did seminary at Abilene Christian University (M.A., M.Div., 1993), and Laura did an M.B.A. There we learned to love the flat dry desert, the ubiquitous mesquite trees, and the good people of west Texas.

Following a six month sojourn in Kenya working with street-kids and a vocational school, we made our way to the mid-west and made a home in South Bend, Indiana where I did graduate studies at Notre Dame in Moral Theology / Christian Ethics (M.A., Ph.D., 1999): there the Alabama boy who had deeply distrusted Notre Dame as a child (because they always beat Bear Bryant) learned to love Domers and Touchdown Jesus and Notre Dame football, and cold, snowy winter days cooped up in Hesburgh Library, long, dark days good for studying, with summer and fall days so crystal clear and beautiful that it made one simply grateful to be alive.

I’ve been teaching full-time at Lipscomb University since 1999, a community I love and for which I am deeply grateful, full of many dear friends and outstanding colleagues. Laura and I have three sons whom we love, of course, more than words can tell, and have been grateful to raise them in Nashville. Since 2013, I’ve been flying sailplanes for my primary hobby. It makes me giddy."

This lecture is free and open to the public! For more information, visit faith-and-life.org

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03/19/2026

Join us next Thursday, March 26th at 7:00 pm for the fourth installment of our Faith & Life lecture series! Lee C. Camp will be presenting on Faith and Technology: What Does it Mean to be Human?

Lee C. Camp writes:

"I am an Alabamian by birth, raised in the tail end of the Appalachians in the north eastern quadrant of the state, full of long-leaf pines and red-clay dirt and rolling hills. After leaving home I completed an undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Lipscomb University (B.A., 1989) in Nashville, Tennessee, where I fell in love with the wonderful woman named Laura who became my wife. We made our way out west where I did seminary at Abilene Christian University (M.A., M.Div., 1993), and Laura did an M.B.A. There we learned to love the flat dry desert, the ubiquitous mesquite trees, and the good people of west Texas.

Following a six month sojourn in Kenya working with street-kids and a vocational school, we made our way to the mid-west and made a home in South Bend, Indiana where I did graduate studies at Notre Dame in Moral Theology / Christian Ethics (M.A., Ph.D., 1999): there the Alabama boy who had deeply distrusted Notre Dame as a child (because they always beat Bear Bryant) learned to love Domers and Touchdown Jesus and Notre Dame football, and cold, snowy winter days cooped up in Hesburgh Library, long, dark days good for studying, with summer and fall days so crystal clear and beautiful that it made one simply grateful to be alive.

I’ve been teaching full-time at Lipscomb University since 1999, a community I love and for which I am deeply grateful, full of many dear friends and outstanding colleagues. Laura and I have three sons whom we love, of course, more than words can tell, and have been grateful to raise them in Nashville. Since 2013, I’ve been flying sailplanes for my primary hobby. It makes me giddy."

This lecture is free and open to the public! For more information, visit faith-and-life.org

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03/12/2026

Join us on Thursday, March 26th at 7:00 pm for the fourth installment of our Faith & Life lecture series! Lee C. Camp will be presenting on Faith and Technology: What Does it Mean to be Human?

Lee C. Camp writes:

"I am an Alabamian by birth, raised in the tail end of the Appalachians in the north eastern quadrant of the state, full of long-leaf pines and red-clay dirt and rolling hills. After leaving home I completed an undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Lipscomb University (B.A., 1989) in Nashville, Tennessee, where I fell in love with the wonderful woman named Laura who became my wife. We made our way out west where I did seminary at Abilene Christian University (M.A., M.Div., 1993), and Laura did an M.B.A. There we learned to love the flat dry desert, the ubiquitous mesquite trees, and the good people of west Texas.

Following a six month sojourn in Kenya working with street-kids and a vocational school, we made our way to the mid-west and made a home in South Bend, Indiana where I did graduate studies at Notre Dame in Moral Theology / Christian Ethics (M.A., Ph.D., 1999): there the Alabama boy who had deeply distrusted Notre Dame as a child (because they always beat Bear Bryant) learned to love Domers and Touchdown Jesus and Notre Dame football, and cold, snowy winter days cooped up in Hesburgh Library, long, dark days good for studying, with summer and fall days so crystal clear and beautiful that it made one simply grateful to be alive.

I’ve been teaching full-time at Lipscomb University since 1999, a community I love and for which I am deeply grateful, full of many dear friends and outstanding colleagues. Laura and I have three sons whom we love, of course, more than words can tell, and have been grateful to raise them in Nashville. Since 2013, I’ve been flying sailplanes for my primary hobby. It makes me giddy."

This lecture is free and open to the public! For more information, visit faith-and-life.org

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03/05/2026

You are invited to join us tonight (March 5th) at 7:00 pm as Faith & Life hosts Sara Hall, who will be presenting on Faith and Running: Going the Distance.

Sara Hall is an American professional distance runner for ASICS. Hall’s personal best time for the marathon is 2:20:32 set at the Marathon Project in Chandler, Arizona on Dec. 22, 2020, making her the third-fastest American woman in history. She is the second-fastest American woman ever to run the half marathon, running 1:07:15 on January 16, 2022—an American record at the time.

Hall has won several mile road races including the Drake Relays Grand Blue Mile and the US National Road Mile Championships. She also has won 1500 meter titles including one at the Millrose Games. She is a two time world team member for the United States at the world indoor track and field championships. Her best finish came in 2006 when she finished 12th in the finals of the 3000 meters at the 11th IAAF World Indoor championships. She was also a member of the 2006 and 2015 United States world cross country championship team, and in 2012, she won the American title at the USA Cross Country Championships, edging Molly Huddle at the line.

This lecture is free and open to the public! For more information, visit faith-and-life.org

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02/26/2026

You are invited to join us next Thursday, March 5th at 7:00 pm as Faith & Life hosts Sara Hall, who will be presenting on Faith and Running: Going the Distance.

Sara Hall is an American professional distance runner for ASICS. Hall’s personal best time for the marathon is 2:20:32 set at the Marathon Project in Chandler, Arizona on Dec. 22, 2020, making her the third-fastest American woman in history. She is the second-fastest American woman ever to run the half marathon, running 1:07:15 on January 16, 2022—an American record at the time.

Hall has won several mile road races including the Drake Relays Grand Blue Mile and the US National Road Mile Championships. She also has won 1500 meter titles including one at the Millrose Games. She is a two time world team member for the United States at the world indoor track and field championships. Her best finish came in 2006 when she finished 12th in the finals of the 3000 meters at the 11th IAAF World Indoor championships. She was also a member of the 2006 and 2015 United States world cross country championship team, and in 2012, she won the American title at the USA Cross Country Championships, edging Molly Huddle at the line.

This lecture is free and open to the public! For more information, visit faith-and-life.org

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