The Francis Schaeffer Institute at Covenant Theological Seminary, in partnership with The Gospel Coalition, is pleased to present the 2024 FSI Conference in Rayburn Chapel on the Seminary campus Friday, September 27, and Saturday, September 28. The conference will explore the theme Christ and All His Hallows: Evangelism in a Disenchanted World.

Our guides for this timely and challenging topic are:

Jake Meador is Editor-in-Chief of Mere Orthodoxy, a resource devoted to helping believers think Christianly about the world around them through a print magazine, a website, multiple podcasts, and video. His writings include the books What Are Christians For?: Life Together at the End of the World, In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World, and numerous articles and posts.

Dr. Gavin Ortlund is a pastor, speaker, apologist for the Christian faith, and author of several books, including What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church, Finding the Right Hills to Die On: The Case for Theological Triage, Humility: The Joy of Self-Forgetfulness, and others. He serves as President of Truth Unites and as Theologian-in-Residence at Immanuel Nashville.

Building on the foundation of the Bible and drawing on some of the recent insightful work of philosopher and social commentator Charles Taylor, the conference will address the ongoing cultural hardening to Christian revelation and the unique evangelistic challenges and opportunities this creates.

In a modern age that allows people to live in a buffered way, cut off from the spiritual realities of their own existence and the world, Christianity seems to come from an entirely foreign world that makes no practical or emotional sense. The core claims of Christian theology are often met with a shrug, while some of its moral claims are met with outrage. How can believers engage a disenchanted people to portray a dynamic experience of Christ that breaks through the buffered self? Join us to explore this and other questions.

Registration for the conference is now open. Early bird rates are available through August 28. Visit our conference page for more information.