Speaking Engagements
December 29, 2006
NOTE: DESPITE THE POSTING DATE, THIS PAGE IS UPDATED REGULARLY
2008
May 12: Panelist at Christian Labour Association of Canada Semi-Annual Staff Conference, Cultus Lake, BC.
August 4-8: Speaking at Mount Hermon Conference Center, Santa Cruz, California. Registration required.
October 20-23: Speaking at Pastors’ Evangelism Conference for Atlantic Baptists, St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, New Brunswick. Registration required.
November 22-29: Speaking in and around Seoul, Korea, in multiple venues, including Seoul Theological University. More information to come as the time approaches.
January 23, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Be in Colorado Springs any time soon for anything? we will be doing a book study on your book and we would be thrilled if you could make it
January 25, 2007 at 7:17 pm
It is particularly charming to be asked about theological speaking from someone named “Can Dance”! I can dance, too: foxtrot, waltz, polka, and a bit of jive dancing, thanks to lessons my wife and I took together after we had left our “no dancing” church background.
I don’t dance well, mind you, but I do it enthusiastically. (The key to ballroom dancing, gents, is to stay on your toes, never back on your heels.)
Anyhow, I would love to go back to Colorado Springs, one of the newer evangelical “Meccas” along with Orlando. I have been there once, to speak at the Broadmoor Hotel (very nice) to a group of fundraisers for evangelical organizations (not so nice). They completely rejected everything my co-presenter and I had to say about the history and ethics of evangelical fundraising and wanted, instead, only hard data (!) to help them, of course, raise more money.
It would be pleasant, then, to have a memory of the Springs to substitute for this one. Alas, Doctor (let the reader understand) Dobson and I aren’t best buds, and no one else has asked, either.
But thanks for inquiring. And which book are you reading together?
August 28, 2007 at 9:16 am
Dear Dr. Stackhouse,
I was one of your students when you taught at Wheaton College - you were my history lab professor and I’ll never forget the first class in which you proceeded to write a long string of dates on the blackboard, all the while we earnest students began to write them all down with feverish and furious pace, worried that we would be tested on them somehow - as if that is what the class would be about - dates. Of course, it was far more than a class about dates. It was a class that taught us the Christian story. You opened my heart and mind to the importance of church history in the telling and re-telling of the Christian story. You also took a personal interest in my story - accepting my invitation to “dine with a mind” and treating me with exceptional respect and dignity at a time in my life when I was exceptionally insecure and unsure of my place at Wheaton.
I tried to track you down at the Denver AAR/SBL a few years ago - not that you would remember me - but, was unsuccessful. You wrote me a recommendation for the school I eventually transferred into, and then I went on to seminary, have pastored at a couple of churches, and now write for a Christian organization (please don’t judge my writing by this blog posting!) Suffice it to say, I have followed your career and ministry through your books and articles and I am so happy to say “I knew you when” and so thrilled to see your gracious humility, your thoughtful candor, and your excellent scholarship displayed in so many meaningful and creative venues. You made a tremendous difference in my life, Dr. Stackhouse! I’ve always wanted to tell you and now I get the chance to tell you! Thank you for allowing God to use you in my life!
Many blessings to you in Christ!
August 31, 2007 at 9:42 am
Margaret,
Thanks so much for writing! I remember you well, and I am delighted, but not at all surprised, that your career has blossomed. And if I read your return e-mail address correctly, it appears we both share an interest in apologetics also! I’d like to hear more from you about that–please drop me an e-mail.
I have too rarely contacted teachers, speakers, and authors who have contributed to my life. Thanks for this good example, which I should follow better! And I hope our paths will cross again really, as well as virtually, and soon.