Speaking Topics

To help promote my new book Saints and Scoundrels, I am available to come and speak at your church or Christian school for free, as long as my travel expenses are paid. Speaking topics include:

• Irenaeus and the Challenge of Gnosticism
• Ideas Have Consequences: the Wisdom of Edmund Burke
• Solzhenitsyn and the Challenge of Postmodernism 
• George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards and the First Great Awakening
• Literary Criticism and the Biblical Worldview
• Alfred the Great and the Purpose of Christian Education
• The Objectivity of Beauty
• Joseph Smith and the Challenge of Mormonism
• Clothing Truth with Beauty: the Mythic Vision of George MacDonald
• What Genesis Teaches us about Art
• Dorothy Sayers Against the Gnostics 
• Political Correctness from Gramsci to Obama
• Postmodernism and Art
• Celebrating Advent in the Spirit of Saint Boniface  
• Rousseau and the rise of the Totalitarian State 
• The Gender Wars from Androgyny to Gay 'marriage'
• Recovering Manliness in the Spirit of Saint Columbanus 
• The Gnostic Revival from Dan Brown to the Gospel of Judas
• The Philosophical Roots of Fascism
  
• Islam and the Challenge of Free Speech
• What Alfred the Great has to teach the modern church 
• From Rousseau to Obama: Tracing the Totalitarian Thread
• King John and the Magna Charta 
• Glorifying God and Refreshing the Human Spirit: the Devotion of J.S. Bach
• Dorothy Sayers and Classical Education
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Life of Costly Grace
• Edmund Burke and the Necessity of Good Manners
• Secularism and the Myth of Religious Neutrality
• Jonathan Edwards and the Life of Charity
• Richard Baxter and the English Puritan Movement
• J.S. Bach and the Lutheran Musical Tradition
• The Intellectual Background to the French Revolution
• The Baptized Imagination of George MacDonald and Dorothy Sayers