Christianity and Culture Colloquium USA
Join us May 21st - 24th in Deerwood, MN, USA
Reflect, recharge and discover a reformational vision of Christian faith and culture at this four-day intensive learning program for Christians serving in all spheres.
Be equipped to apply the glory of a full-orbed gospel in all areas of life.


Speakers
Rev. Dr. Joseph Boot
Rev. Dr. Andrew Sandlin
Dr. Jeffery Ventrella
Rev. Dr. Michael Thiessen
Dr. Ted Fenske
Speakers

Rev. Dr. Joseph Boot
M.A., Ph. D.
Rev. Dr. Joseph Boot (M.A., Ph.D.) is a Christian thinker & cultural apologist/philosopher, Founder and President of the Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity. He also served as founding pastor of Westminster Chapel, Toronto for 14 years. Now resident home in Great Britain, Joseph has worked in the fields of Christian apologetics, worldview education and church leadership for over twenty-five years on both sides of the Atlantic. He has spoken and guest lectured globally at numerous university events, seminaries, churches, colleges, and conferences. He regularly addresses pastors and Christian leaders as well as academic, medical, legal, and political professionals and has publicly debated leading atheistic thinkers and philosophers in Canada and the United States.

Rev. Dr. P. Andrew Sandlin
M.A., Ph. D.
Rev. Dr. P. Andrew Sandlin is an ordained minister, Executive Director of the Fellowship of Mere Christianity, Faculty of Blackstone Legal Fellowship of the Alliance Defending Freedom, and De Jong Distinguished Visiting Professor of Culture and Theology, Edinburg Theological Seminary, a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, and is President of the Center for Cultural Leadership. He founded CCL in 2001 with the conviction that only eminently-equipped cultural leaders will actually create a new Christian culture - and that only transformed Christians can transform the present anti-Christian culture of the West. He has been preaching and teaching and lecturing for 30 years.

Dr. Jeffery Ventrella
J.D, Ph. D.
Dr. Jeffery J. Ventrella serves as senior counsel and senior vice president of academic affairs and training at Alliance Defending Freedom. Since joining ADF in 2000, he has designed the curriculum for a number of ADF training programs, including the Blackstone Legal Fellowship, a unique training and professional development program for law students. He also helps design ADF International's Areté Academy Europe, Asia, and Latin America, which provide training for exceptional international advocates and cultural leaders who are on a path to future leadership in a variety of disciplines.
Ventrella has served as a research fellow and a member of an ad hoc graduate thesis committee for the Department of Philosophy and Constitutional Law at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He is also a distinguished Fellow of Law and Culture for the Center for Cultural Leadership and a fellow with the Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity. In 2014, TruthXchange appointed him Senior Fellow. As an approved speaker for The Federalist Society, he serves as an appointed member of the society's executive committee guiding its Religious Liberties Practice Group.
His book The Cathedral Builder: Pursuing Cultural Beauty (2007) is part of the Blackstone Legal Fellowship's Core Curriculum Project, which he also edits. He is the author of numerous monographs and has contributed to or edited nine books. Ventrella received a bachelor's degree in music education degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Northern Colorado, where he specialized in trumpet performance. He holds a doctorate in church and state studies from Whitefield Theological Seminary and earned his juris doctorate from the University of California Hastings College of the Law. He has practiced law since 1985 and is a member of the state bar of Idaho. He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Rev. Dr. Michael Thiessen
M.A., D.Min.
Rev. Dr. Michael Thiessen has over 20 years of pastoral ministry experience, including international teaching, coaching, and consulting experience.
With a heart for training and mentoring young adults and pastors, and advancing both church and cultural renewal, Michael Thiessen serves LionSight Strategies as the Founder and Lead Coach. He also serves Liberty Coalition Canada as the Founder and President.

Dr. Ted Fenske
MD, FRCPC
Dr. Fenske is Clinical Professor with the Division of Cardiology at the University of Alberta and staff cardiologist at the C.K. Hui Heart Centre. He is a regular contributor to the Canadian Journal of Continuing Medical Education, Perspectives in Cardiology, and several other scholarly journals.

Location
Clearwater Forest Retreat Center
16595 Crooked Lake Rd, Deerwood, MN 56444, United States


We hope you will join us in 2023!
