March 30-31, 2011
Date
March 30
Time
10:00 AM
11:00 AM
Event
Chapel
Chapel
Location
Van Dyne Gymnasium (Chapel)
Van Dyne Gymnasium (Chapel)
March 31
11:00 AM to 12:20 PM
Lecture & Faculty Forum
Copenbarger Presidential Dining Room
Charlie Peacock
Singer, song-writer, producer
Charlie Peacock is a Grammy award-winning, multi-format songwriter and record producer. He has worked in
pop, gospel, jazz, and country music and produced songs for numerous bands including Switchfoot, Warren
Barfield, Sara Groves, Audio Adrenaline, David Crowder Band, Avalon, dcTalk, Out of the Grey and many
others. Peacock currently heads up the music sector of Washington D.C.-based Wedgwood Circle Angel
investment group, a national network of high net worth investors, foundations, cultural gatekeepers and creators
contributing to the renewal of culture by making strategic investments in culture. His production work with
Grey’s Anatomy and the Civil Wars received popular acclaim recently and his is now working with American
Idol’s Randy Jackson in the creation of soundtrack recordings for NBC's new Friday night family movie series
in cooperation with WalMart and Proctor & Gamble.
Charlie will also be speaking to select groups of CBU students and faculty.
Christ & Culture Guiding Principles
The CBU Christ & Culture Distinguished Lectureship brings to campus recognized Christian scholars or artists who show
the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ to transform culture and reclaim it for God’s Kingdom. Through Chapel
presentations, formal lectures, and faculty panel discussions, students learn from those who actively engage the culture
from their respective disciplines. As a result, students witness a practical application of the University’s Student
Outcomes and gain a better understanding of how they can live out their purpose according to God’s will.
C&C Chapel
The C&C chapels will give students the opportunity to see/hear Christian scholars and/or artists who, through active
engagement of culture, show the power of the gospel of Christ to transform and reclaim culture for God’s Kingdom.
C&C Lecture
The format of C&C is transitioning to a more interactive and interdisciplinary event; it is hoped that faculty will be
encouraged to move class sessions to the formal lecture. The guest speaker will present a lecture related to the
interaction of Christians in culture, followed by a faculty panel discussion and then time for Q&A. The effort is to make
the lecture more applicable to a wide variety of students and disciplinary interests—creating many points of contact
between the faculty’s class, content and the Christ and culture issue.
C&C Faculty Forum with Q&A
A faculty panel discussion at the end of the lecture
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Panel should include faculty members from diverse departments to comment on the lecture from their particular
discipline (2011 panel includes Dr. Philip Miller [Music], Dr. Natalie Winter [Business], Dr. Brett Biermann
[Film/English], and Dr. Jeff Mooney [Biblical Studies].
This fosters more participation from faculty and develops the “interdisciplinary” emphasis that the Christ and
Culture Lecture Series is designed to encourage.
This will also encourage faculty to move class sessions to the lecture because it will be academically beneficial and
it will also help with attendance—something that has been a problem in past lectures. Please consider giving
incentive to students for attending.
C&C Guest Speakers
The criterion for speakers emphasizes how a person represents living the Great Commandment in his/her discipline. For
example, What does it look like to be a Christian economist? or How does one do economics Christianly?
Keeping in mind C.S. Lewis’ idea,
The second thing to get clear is that Christianity has not, and does not profess to have, a detailed political program
for applying “Do as you would be done by” to a particular society at a particular moment. It could not have. It is
meant for all men at all times and the particular program with suited one place or time would not suit another.
And, anyhow, that is not how Christianity works. When it tells you to feed the hungry it does not give you lessons in
cookery…It was never intended to replace or supersede the ordinary human arts and sciences: it is rather a director
which will set them all to the right jobs, and a source of energy which will give them all new life, if only they will put
themselves at its disposal….Christians—those who happen to have the right talents—should be economists and
statesmen…and that their whole efforts in politics and economics should be directed to putting “Do as you would
be done by” into action…The application of Christian principles, say, to trade unionism or education, must come
from Christian trade unionists and Christian schoolmasters: just a Christian literature comes from Christian novelists
and dramatists—not from the bend of bishops getting together and trying to write plays and novels in their spare
time (Mere Christianity, book 3, chapter 3).