Friday Evening Lecture
Contact: Jennifer Jones
This year we return to our Friday evening lecture format with two respondents. All are welcome to attend. A publisher-sponsored reception with a free book for active IBR members will follow. Non-members are warmly welcomed to attend both the lecture and the reception.
7:00 to 8:30 pm
11/21/2025
America North, (Fourth Floor) Westin Copley Place
Welcome, Scripture Reading and Prayer
Andrew Abernethy, Wheaton College
Introduction
Jennifer Jones, Houston Christian University, Presiding
Lecture
Ellen Davis, Duke Divinity School
A Path through the Wilderness: Tracing the Covenantal Economics of Psalms
Respondents
Mark Boda, McMaster Divinity College
Presentation by Zondervan Academic
Recent Lectures
2024
- Unscripted
- Andrew Abernethy, Wheaton College
If the Shoe Fits: Reading Jeremiah as a Word to the Western Church - Beth Stovell, Ambrose University College and Seminary
The Word Made Flesh, Our Tabernacling King: Johannine Kingdom Theology
2023
- David G. Firth, Trinity College - Bristol
Restructuring a World through Praise: Reading Book 4 of the Psalms - Federico Villanueva, Langham Publishing, Respondent
- Beth LaNeel Tanner, New Brunswick Theological Seminary, Respondent
2022
- David DeSilva, Ashland Theological Seminary
Understanding Torah: Ancient Legal Text, Covenant Stipulation, and Christian Scripture - Timothy Gombis, Independent Scholar , Respondent
- Erin Heim, Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford, Respondent