Year Speaker Theme
2008 Diana Butler Bass "The Practicing Congregation: Imagining A New Old Church"
2007 Randall Balmer “Perspectives on American Evangelicalism”
2006 Christine M. Smith “Resurrection: Fidelity to Life--in This Life”
2005 Amy Jill Levine “Jesus, Gender, and Judaism”
2004 Norman Jackson “Is God’s Justice Irrelevant or Central to Our Faith?”
2003 Dale Bishop “Building Bridges”
2002 Doug Adams “Bringing to Life the Humor in the Bible”
2001 John Shelby Spong “A New Christianity for a New World”
2000 John Dominic Crossan “The Historical Jesus and the Birth of Christianity”
1999 Karen Jo Torjesen “Rethinking Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in Early Christianity”
1998 Tex Sample “Christian Faith and Cultural Diversity: Doing Ministry in Oral, Literate, and Electronic Cultures”
1997 George A. Drake “Puritanism”
1996 Rita Nakashima Brock “Who Do You Say That I Am?”
1995 Robin Scroggs “Exploring the Theology of Paul”
1994 Marcus Borg “Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time”