Coordinator of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Stephaine Nobles-Beans presents "The Demon Possessed: Freeing the Oppressed"

Solveig Robinson, Ph.D., presents a lecture, "Victorian Women’s (Publishing) House Work: Gender and Cultural Authority in 19th-Century Britain." Robinson is an associate professor in English at Pacific Lutheran University. She serves as reviews editor for "Victorian Periodicals Review"; her books include "A Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers."

Dean of Spiritual Life and Campus Pastor Forrest Buckner presents "The Rich Ruler: Freeing the Wealthy."

Campus Pastor Mindy Smith presents "Raising the Widow's Son: Rescuing the Vulnerable."

Thom Caraway, Ph.D., and Casey Andrews, Ph.D., present their latest research projects. Caraway's lecture, "Poesis: The Language of Creation," explores theopoetics and contemporary poetry of witness. Andrews' lecture, "Writing Against War: Literature as Peace Activism," discusses the work of Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley and others who wrote peace-activist fiction in the 1930s.

Dean of Spiritual Life and Campus Pastor Forrest Buckner presents "Eating with Tax Collectors: Calling the Sick."

Dean of Spiritual Life and Campus Pastor Forrest Buckner presents "The Year of the Lord’s Favor."

Each semester begins with the campus community gathering for opening convocation. Whitworth President Beck A. Taylor presents the convocation address, "New Identities."

President Beck A. Taylor presents Whitworth's annual State of the University Address.

Brenda Salter McNeil is an associate professor of reconciliation studies in the School of Theology at Seattle Pacific University, where she also directs the reconciliation studies minor program.