On Saturday, October 11th, Mike Sacasas gave a public lecture at Christian Study Center’s 25th Anniversary Celebration. Mike is the Executive Director at the Christian Study Center.

Two questions framed the contents of Mike’s talk: “How do Study Centers fit into the landscape of the Christian higher education?” and “How do Study Centers contribute to the life of the universities they serve?” In his talk, Mike invites us to consider the changing attitudes toward higher education, recent university closures (of which Christian colleges make up almost half) and the technological elements affecting how valuable and viable some four year degrees seem (especially with the spread of AI in school and the workplace). Mike presents Study Centers as one solution for Christian learning and a means of innovation to meet the demands of the moment with the goal to form people intellectually by helping them think Christianly about the world.

Lecturer Bio

Michael Sacasas earned his MA in Theological Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary in 2002. He was later a doctoral candidate at the University of Central Florida studying the relationship between technology and society with a focus on the work of Hannah Arendt. He currently serves as a Senior Fellow with the Trinity Forum, an Associate Fellow in Ethics and Culture at the Greystone Theological Institute, and is a contributing editor for Comment Magazine. His writing on technology and the moral life has appeared in The New Atlantis, Comment, The Point Magazine, and Plough.

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