Pepperine Speaker Series: Stranger God: Meeting Jesus in Disguise

Payson Library, Surfboard Room  7 – 8 p.m. PDT

Pepperdine University  24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA  90263

The Pepperdine Libraries' Rushford Center for Research on Churches of Christ and the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement is honored to present the forty-third annual William M. Green Distinguished Christian Scholar Lecture. 

This year’s featured speaker is Richard Beck, professor and department chair of psychology at Abilene Christian University. The title of Dr. Beck's presentation is "Stranger God: Meeting Jesus in Disguise," the subject of his 2017 book of the same name. 

"When Richard Beck first led a Bible study at a maximum security prison, he went to meet God. His own faith was flagging, but Beck still believed the promise of Matthew 25, that when we visit the prisoner, we visit Jesus."

The author of seven books, his most recent is Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering an Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age. 

"Five hundred years ago, the world was enchanted with angels and demons--God existed, and the devil was real. Today, we live in a post-Christian world characterized by doubt and skepticism. Richard Beck argues this is not evidence of a crisis of belief but a crisis of attention."

Dr. Beck also serves as a prison chaplain at the maximum-security French Robertson Unit where he leads a weekly Bible study. Admission is free, and the event is taking place in the Surfboard Room.

Contact: Lucy Perrin  lucy.perrin@pepperdine.edu 310.506.6801
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