Join us for a two-day conference as Presbyterian scholars, thinkers, pastors, and authors come together.
Cost $50—can be paid at the door and covers all meals and snacks.
Where: Harbor House on the campus of Wheaton College (this is not a function of Wheaton College)
To register please email Jeff McDonald at jsmcdonald47@gmail.com
Conference Dates: October 21st and 22nd, 2025
2024 Conference Schedule
Tuesday, October 22nd
9:00 a.m. Panel Discussion on the “Secularization of Higher Education”
Dr. Daniel K. Williams, Senior Research Fellow, Ashbrook Center, Ashland University
Dr. Owen Anderson, Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University
10:00 a.m. “James Montgomery Boice and the Making of a New Evangelical”
Dr. John Tweeddale, Professor of Theology and VP of Academics, Reformation Bible College (FL)
11:00 a.m. “Francis Grimke, Racism, and the Imago Dei”
Dr. Paul Kemeny, Professor of Religious Studies and Dean, Grove City College
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. “Transatlantic Encounters: Old Princeton and German Universities”
Dr. Annette Aubert, Lecturer in Church History, Westminster Theological Seminary
2:00 p.m. Panel Discussion of The Oxford Handbook of Presbyterianism edited by Paul Kemeny and Gary Scott Smith
Dr. Bradley Longfield, Professor of Church History, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary
Dr. David Bebbington, Professor of History Emeritus, University of Stirling, Scotland
Dr. Jack Whytock, Executive Director, Haddington House Trust, PEI, Canada
Dr. John Wiers, Retired Pastor and Adjunct Instructor, Kirkwood Community College
Dr. Paul Kemeny, Professor of Religious Studies and Dean, Grove City College
Dr. Gary Scott Smith, Professor of History Emeritus, Grove City College
3:45 p.m. “The Christian Nationalism of Nineteenth Century Presbyterians”
Dr. Darryl Hart, Associate Professor of History, Hillsdale College
4:45 p.m. “Charles Hodge and Natural Theology”
Dr. Owen Anderson, Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University
5:45 p.m. Dinner
7:00 p.m. Panel Discussion of Richard Burnett’s Machen’s Hope: The Transformation of a Modernist in the New Princeton
Dr. Mark Noll, McAnaney Professor of History Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
Dr. Camden Bucey, President of the Reformed Forum, Historian of the OPC
Dr. Robert Cara, Professor of New Testament and VP of AA, Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, NC
Dr. Darryl G Hart, Associate Professor of History, Hillsdale College
Dr. George M. Marsden, McAnaney Professor of History Emeritus, University of Notre Dame (via ZOOM)
Dr. Richard Burnett, Executive Director, Theology Matters, and Director of the M.A. program in Reformed Theology, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary
Wednesday, October 23rd
8:00 a.m. “Xenia Seminary and the Challenge of Evangelical Scholarship”
Dr. Jeff McDonald, Executive Director, Presbyterian Scholars Conference
9:00 a.m. “M. G. Kline: Orthodox Presbyterian Scholar”
Mr. John Muether, Professor of Church History, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando
10:00 a.m. Panel Discussion of Ted Davis’s Protestant Modernist Pamphlets: Science and Religion in the Scopes Era
Dr. Brad Gundlach, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, Trinity International University
Dr. James Ungureanu, Adjunct Professor, Carthage College
Dr. Dorothy Chappell, Professor of Biology Emerita, Wheaton College
Dr. Tom Miller, Professor of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Dr. Ted Davis, Distinguished Professor of the History of Science Emeritus, Messiah University
11:30 a.m. Lunch
12:30 p.m. “The Curse of Modern Life: Abraham Kuyper’s Critique of Modernity and Calls for Restoring an Ancient Sacramental Ecology”
Dr. James Ungureanu, Adjunct Professor, Carthage College
1:30 p.m. Presentation on A Survey of Presbyterian Missions History in Africa
Dr. Jack Whytock and Mrs. Nancy Whytock, Haddington House Trust, PEI, Canada
2:30 p.m. “A Theological Seminary of the First Class in the West”: Choosing Presbyterian Seminary Locations, Undue Influence, & Manifest Destiny”
Dr. Barry Waugh, Editor, Presbyterians of the Past
3:30 p.m. “Resisting Secularization, Reclaiming Its Historic Mission, and Integrating Faith and Learning at Grove City College”
Dr. Gary Scott Smith, Professor of History Emeritus, Grove City College
