Harbor, Pepperdine Bible Lectures

Teacher: Danny Quintero Unlimited knowledge, unlimited power, unlimited love. Billions of followers, billions of lives impacted. People talk about Him, but do they walk with Him? If you are interested in knowing the importance of planning with the Spirit and the change that you can experience in your life and even in your church, I invite you to join us in this class.

Teacher: Sara Young Jackson I have always loved the song sung by Miranda Lambert, “The House That Built Me,” because it so poignantly reminds me of the people in my life who have influenced who I have become today. In this class, I will reflect on the women, both in Scripture and in my personal history, whose lives of faith have “shaped” me.

Teacher: Kent Jobe This class will look at the underlying spirit that defined the early church and how intentional congregational care can transform the local church from the inside out.

Teacher: Kelly Haer 60:40. Why are there so often more women than men on college campuses and in your young adult ministry? How does this "man deficit" impact both men and women? What does faithful living look like amidst the current economics of dating? Demographics, statistics, game theory, and ambiguous loss will be used to make sense of--and provide a guide to navigate--the dating climate at school and life after college! *Date-Onomics coined by Jon Birger

Teacher: Tim Spivey Even prior to the pandemic, the church was changing in dramatic ways. This class discusses, humorously, the expiration of several popular leadership principles, and offers a look at the prevailing church of the rest of the 21st century.

Teachers: Jacob Parnell, Bryan Schackmann Q: What do you get when you cross a Church of Christ preacher and a stand-up comic? A: Better punchlines than this one! Give your brain a break and come enjoy some all ages stand-up comedy. You'll learn absolutely nothing but you will laugh! (Notice: Laughs not guaranteed.)

Teacher: John Barton John will discuss his new book, Better Religion, and explore the following questions: How should Christians interact with followers of other religions? How would Jesus have us do interfaith work? Where are the lines between faithfulness and compromise?

Teacher: Chais DeMaggio A look into the research on religious trauma, and pathways to creating healthy and safe religious communities. After demystifying the subject of religious trauma this class proposes a transparent and inclusive approach to building religious community.

Teachers: Leonard Allen, Lauren White The Authority of Scripture in a Different Key: Incarnation and Sanctification The doctrine of Scripture’s authority and inspiration has tended to be distorted in two directions, the fundamentalist and the modernist. We propose an older view that is neither: that the Holy Spirit has sanctified or made holy the processes of Scripture’s incarnational production and preservation, setting these texts apart for the Trinity’s service.

Teachers: Leonard Allen, Lauren White Signs of the Times: Modernist and Postmodernist Readings of the Bible  Modern critical studies of the Bible tended to fragment its unity and question its historical accuracy. Postmodern approaches tend to deny the text any stable meaning and depend on the reader to create it—so now we commonly hear of “queering the Bible.”