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How do God’s first words about humans speak into today’s most complicated issues?

Rosaria Butterfield

Author & Speaker

Casey Luskin

Associate Director of the Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute

Mike McKinley

Senior Pastor, Sterling Park Baptist

Joshua Mitchell

Professor of Government, Georgetown University

Mark T. Mitchell

Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Government, Patrick Henry College

Jay Richards

Research Fellow,
The Heritage Foundation

Albert Thompson

Professor of History, Howard University

Graedon Zorzi

Professor of Theology and Philosophy, Patrick Henry College

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What does the Imago Dei have to say about race, transgenderism, sex and marriage, identity politics, science, poverty, and private property? The Imago Dei Project at Patrick Henry College is pleased to convene an interdisciplinary group of scholars seeking new insight into complex cultural issues by examining God’s first words about human beings in the opening chapters of Genesis.

Conference Topics

How can God’s glorious vision for marriage help the church to be a source of hope and health for people suffering from a damaging approach to sex?

Rosaria Butterfield / Genesis 2:24

How is being made in the image of God related to science and the classification of the natural world?

Casey Luskin / Genesis 2:20

What role does the church have to play in alleviating the problems of scarcity and poverty?

Mike McKinley / Genesis 3:19

How can recognizing the human need for an answer to sin and transgression help the church to bring health to a political environment fixated on guilt and innocence?

Joshua Mitchell / Genesis 3:13

How ought the duty to exercise dominion as stewards inform the church’s approach to current controversies about private property and the environment?

Mark T. Mitchell / Genesis 1:26

How should the fundamental male/female distinction inform the church’s response to the gender identity movement?

Jay Richards / Genesis 1:17

How can the church offer insight into current questions about race in light of the reality that all humans are one family who share God’s image?

Albert Thompson / Genesis 1:28

Why is the reality that humans are made in the image of God so powerful and transformative?

Graedon Zorzi / Genesis 1:27

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