Previous Keynotes and Topics
2012
"The Wound that Wants to Be Whole: A Call to Forgiveness"
Dr. Angela Brenton, Dean, University of Arkansas
2011
“Media Effects on Identity Formation”
Dr. Keli Finnerty-Myers, professor, Pepperdine University
2010
“Ethics in Social Media”
Dr. Pauline Cheong, professor, Arizona State University
2009
“Ethical Dimensions of Popular Music”
We Five
2008
“Encouragement and Communication”
Dr. Paul King, professor, Texas Christian University
2007
“Communication and Forgiveness”
Dr. Douglas Kelley, professor, Arizona State University
2006
“Rhetoric of Reconciliation: Christian Speech in a Culture of Political Correctness and Violence”
Dr. Rev. Jerry Tankersley, senior pastor, Laguna Presbyterian Church
2005
“Transforming not Conforming: Christians Impacting Culture through the Mainstream Media”
Colleen Carroll Campbell, host, Faith and Culture, EWTN
2004
“Political Reporting and the Ethics of Jesus”
David Water, editor, Commercial Appeal,
2003
“Reality TV: Gender, Deception, and Ratings”
Lee C. Wilkins, professor, University of Missouri
2002
“The Rhetoric of Terrorism: A Christian Response”
Dr. Cliff Kelly, Focus on the Family
2001
“Rethinking Communication Ethics”
Dr. Walter R. Fisher, professor, University of Southern California
2000
“The Perils of Truth-Telling: Some Case Studies of Sissela Bok’s Principle of Veracity”
Dr. Michael Graves, professor, Regent University
1999
“Invitations to Dialogue”
Dr. W. Barnett Pearce, professor, Fielding Institute
1998
“Ethical Dimensions of Art and Communication”
Nigel Goodwin, Genesis Arts Trust, London
1997
“The Ethics of Friendship”
Dr. Em Griffin, professor, Wheaton College
1996
“Why Care? A New Way of Thinking About Rhetoric”
Dr. Helen Sterk, professor, Marquette University
1995
“Behind the Steamy Sex, Shiny Mercedes, and Air-Conditioned Dog Houses: The Ethics of TV Religion”
Dr. Quentin J. Schultze, professor, Wheaton College
1994
“The Ethics of Public Argument”
Dr. Ken Chase, professor, Wabash College
1993
“The Moral Rhetoric of the Abortion Controversy”
Dr. Murray W. Dempstar, professor, Southern California College
1992
“Can Social Responsibility Theory Survive Modern Contingency?”
Dr. Mark Facklar, professor, Wheaton College
1991
“A Case Against a Christian Ethic”
Dr. Fred Casmir, professor, Pepperdine University
1990
“New Media Technologies and Social Ethics”
Dr. Cliff Christians, professor, University of Illinois
