Lecture: 9:30 AM Eastern
Panel Discussion and Q&A Session: 1:00 PM Eastern
We live in an age of technological marvels. Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and brain-computer interfaces promise dramatic changes to our economies, our bodies, and even our minds. In the extreme, these tools may alter something fundamental about what it means for us to be human. How should we think biblically about the transformative power of these new technologies?
Our goal at Patrick Henry College is to equip young leaders who will lead for the glory of God and the good of those who follow.
What is Faith & Reason at Patrick Henry College?
The Faith & Reason lecture is a time-honored PHC tradition of gathering together as a campus community to consider the shape and contour of important topics as presented by faculty and guest lecturers.
The Faith & Reason lectures are presented to our campus community—one per semester—as springboards for conversations that move from the lecture hall to the dining commons to the dorm rooms, becoming a part of our campus conversations.
The ability to think carefully through complex topics is an important component of civil discourse. We grow individually and as a community, as we wrestle with and debate the merit of the ideas presented. We do all of this with a spirit of humility and charity and with the recognition that “iron sharpens iron.”
About Dr. Jackson
Prior to joining PHC, Dr. Mike Jackson spent more than a decade leading a grant-funded research program at Kaiser Permanente Washington. His research focused on the real-world impact of vaccination programs, including questions of vaccine effectiveness, vaccine safety, and underlying pathogen transmission dynamics. He has operated active surveillance systems for influenza, built mathematical models of Neisseria meningitidis transmission in Africa, and developed novel methods for studying vaccine effectiveness in human populations. Dr. Jackson has over 140 papers published in the biomedical literature. In addition, he has worked in applied public health at both the local and federal levels and has worked as an epidemiologist on the data science teams of several health tech start-ups. Dr. Jackson teaches various courses in Biology at PHC.
Faith & Reason is a campus-community gathering reserved for PHC students, faculty, staff, and invited guests.
