Trinity Lecture Series
Trinity Academy hosts an annual lecture that brings together distinguished guests from across the country to engage in a free and disciplined exchange of ideas. Our Lecture Series reflects Trinity Academy’s commitment to cultivating the attitudes and habits that define a lifelong love of learning. Through this event, we seek to contribute meaningfully to the broader discourse on Christianity and the life of the mind.
Trinity Lecture Spring 2026
Saturday, march 6th
2026 Lecture Topic: Knowing What We Don’t Know: Cultivating Intellectual Humility Through Imaginative Literature with Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson
Registration for our upcoming Trinity Lecture will be open soon!
2025 Lecture Topic: The Bible Rediscovered: Understanding Scripture as Wisdom Literature
Trinity Academy’s 2025 guest speakers, Tim Mackie and Jonathan Collins, co-founders of BibleProject, shared insights from their years of study and experience. They addressed how our culture tends to think of the Bible as a reference book, like a dictionary of theology or doctrine, or like a behavior manual, rather than its original intent, inspiring the audience to think differently.
2024: What Does it Mean to be Free? Reflections on Freedom, Flourishing, and Moral Imagination by Angel Adams Parham, Ph.D.
Trinity Academy’s 2024 guest speaker, Angel Adams Parham, author of The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature.
Dr. Parham is Associate Professor of Sociology and senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. She works in the area of historical sociology, engaging in research and writing that examines the past in order to better understand how to live well in the present and envision wisely for the future.
2023: Toward A Collective Vision of Human Flourishing
by Romanita Hairston, MBA
2022: Civility, Civics, and the Fate of the City of Man
by Patrick J. Deneen, Ph.D.
Patrick J. Deneen, Ph.D.
University of Notre Dame
www.patrickjdeneen.com
Mark Hall, Ph.D.
George Fox University
www.georgefox.edu/academics/undergrad/departments/polisci/hall.html
William Curtis, Ph.D.
University of Portland
www.up.edu/directory/William-Curtis.html
Col. Rev. Shon Neyland, D.Min.
Highland Christian Center
www.hcclive.com/about/
2020: Disruption as a Gift: A Chance to Recalibrate Our Loves
by James K. A. Smith via Zoom Webinar
Karen Eifler
University of Portland;
Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life & American Culture
Gabe Cowley
Trinity Academy