1998 – Dr. Alan Culpepper, Dean of McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University
1999 – Dr. Molly Marshall, Professor at Central Baptist Theological Seminary
2000 – Dr. David Garland, Professor of New Testament at Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University
2001 – Dr. Michael Brady, Canisius Professor of Systematic Theology and Director of the Jesuit Institute, Boston College
2002 – Dr. Ben Witherington, Professor of New Testament, Asbury Theological Seminary
2003 – Mr. Philip Yancey, writer
2004 – Dr. Richard B. Hays, Professor of New Testament, Duke University
2005 – Dr. Grant Wacker, Professor of Church History, Duke University
2006 – Dr. Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University
2007 – Dr. John F. Haught, Georgetown University
2008 – Dr. Karen Bullock, Fellow and Professor of Christian Heritage, and the Director of the Ph.D. program at B.H. Carroll Theological Institute
2009 – Dr. Robert Kruschwitz, Director of the Center for Christian Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University
2010 – Dr. Paul Redditt, Professor Emeritus of religion and former chair of the Religion Department at Georgetown College
2011 – Dr. J. Kameron Carter, Associate Professor in Theology and Black Church Studies, Duke Divinity School
2012 - Dr. Christine Pohl,
2013 - Dr. Carol Osiek,
2014 - [No Lecture]
2015 - Dr. Paul Fiddes, Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Oxford and Director of Research, Regent’s Park College [Formerly served as Principal of Regent’s Park College]
2016 - Dr. Jason A. Springs, Associate Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Peace Studies; Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; University of Notre Dame
2017 - Dr. Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History at Baylor University and Co-Director for Baylor’s Program on Historical Studies of Religion in the Institute for Studies of Religion.
Lecture Titles
2012-13 Dr. Christine Pohl (Recovering Hospitality in a Hostile Environment)
2013-14 Dr. Carol Osiek (Women in the Early Church)
2014-15 Dr. Paul Fiddes (‘Dystopia, Utopia and Millennium’: Images of Presence in an Anxious World)
2015-16 Dr. Jason Springs (Restorative Justice and the New Jim Crow)
2016-17 Dr. Philip Jenkins (World Without End: Pluralism, Migration, and the NextChristianity)