Lewis House Lecture Series

Once a month, great Christian thinkers help us see the wisdom of the faith as it applies to any and every aspect of our lives.

Spring 2026 Speakers

There’s so much confusion around the topic of sexuality these days. In January, Lewis House will welcome to the stage Christine Emba to address the modern sexual ethic and its many problems. Emba is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where she researches gender and sexuality, feminism, masculinity, and more. She is also a writer and editor at The New York Times, and her recent work, culminating in her book Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, explores the detrimental results of the modern sexual ethic on women and men.

Dr. Malcolm Guite is a British poet, priest, musician, and academic who is interested in the interface between theology and literature. Guite earned his doctorate at the University of Durham, and was ordained a priest in the Church of England in the 90s. One of the most unique voices in contemporary Christianity, his public work often focuses on many of the great heroes of a place like Lewis House: the Tolkiens and Lewises who showed the interdependency of intellect and imagination in the Christian life.

In this secular age, we see stats and stories of those walking away from the Christian faith. Dr. Molly Worthen’s story is unique. Worthen is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Growing up as a non-Christian, she spent most of her adult life and professional career as an agnostic. But in the course of studying American history and religion, she became a Christian. In this lecture, Dr. Worthen will share the unique story of her conversion to Christianity.

Brian Marshall is the founder and director of Lewis House and the lead pastor of Christian Student Fellowship at the University of Kentucky. Every year we have a local voice give a lecture, and this year we decided to invite Brian to the lecture series to share his reflections on the virtue of modesty. Having years of experience working in college ministry, Marshall has recently been thinking about how much more expansive the concept of “modesty” should be than it is, and how as a virtue it extends to a wide range of areas Christians should take seriously.

• Jake Meador, Theology or Therapy: Why Therapy Can’t Solve All Our Problems (Fall 2025)
• Joy Vaughan, Christ the Exorcist: A Theology of Spiritual Warfare and What It Means for Christians Today (Fall 2025)
• James E. Beitler, Virtue not Vitriol: C. S. Lewis on How to Argue in a Time of Hate-Fueled Rhetoric (Fall 2025)
• Stephen O. Presley, Engaging the World like the Early Church: Sanctifying Our Chaotic Culture (Fall 2025)
• Abigail Favale, Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory (Spring 2025)
• Julie Canlis, Why the Ordinary is Radical: Why God Cares About the Menial and Mundane (Spring 2025)
• Matthew Lee Anderson, Called into Questions: Doubt In an Age of Deconstruction (Spring 2025)
• Fred Sanders, What Not to Read: Why We Should Care About Bad Theology (Spring 2025)
• Nadya Williams, Cultural Christianity in the Early Church: A Challenge Then and Now (Fall 2024)
• Christians and Politics, 4 Views from 4 Scholars: A Panel Discussion followed by Q+A (Fall 2024)
• Russ Ramsey, Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Life (Fall 2024)
• Derek King, Good Looking: Why Attention Matters More Than We Think (Fall 2024)