Schedule

Schedule Date
June 18, 2019

3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Arrival and Registration
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Opening Reception
6:00 PM
Dinner
7:00 PM
Evening Plenary
8:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Hospitality

Schedule Date
June 19, 2019

7:15 AM
Catholic Mass
7:15 AM
Protestant Prayer Service
8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM to 10:20 AM
Session 1
Christian Vision of the Person and Society
A Free & Virtuous Society Revisited
An Introduction to Abraham Kuyper's Public Theology
Getting Social Justice Right
Microfinance: Wins, Losses, and Lessons
Must Commons Governance be Tragic?
The Importance of Free Trade
The Thought of Leo XIII
What We Know (and Don't Know) about Criminal Justice Policy
Wisdom and Work: Theological Reflections on Human Labor in Ecclesiastes
10:45 AM to 12:05 PM
Session 2
Natural Law and Human Flourishing
Adam Smith and the Idea of Virtuous Capitalists
An Ecosystem of Liberty: Private Property and the Free Exercise of Religion
Church Property as a Bulwark of Religious Liberty
Curbing Rights Inflation
Free Press and Freedom
John Locke’s Philosophy of Liberalism
Judaism and the Market Economy
Recovering Beneficence: An Alternative to Social Justice Warfare
The Politics of Apocalypse
12:05 PM to 2:00 PM
Lunch Break
2:00 PM to 3:20 PM
Session 3
Economic Way of Thinking
Legislating Morality: It's Not as Scary as you May Think
Liberation Theology
Lord Acton, Liberty, Conscience, and the Social Order
Religious Freedom and International Development
Rooting for Rivals
Second Thoughts: Newman on Economic and Political Liberty
We’re All Dead: How J.M. Keynes--and His Critics--Went Wrong
Why Malthus Was Not a Malthusian
3:45 PM to 5:05 PM
Session 4
Christian Vision of a Free Government
A Cross, a Cake, and a Crisis: Two Attacks on Religious and Economic Freedom
Engaging Culture: Lessons from the Church Fathers
Judaism, the State, and Limited Government
Social Teaching of John Paul II
The Ghost of Marx
Why Machines Won't Replace Us
6:00 PM
Dinner
7:00 PM
Evening Plenary
8:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Hospitality

Schedule Date
June 20, 2019

7:15 AM
Catholic Mass
7:15 AM
Protestant Prayer Service
8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM to 10:20 AM
Session 5
Community and Economic Development
Cronyism, Corporate Welfare and Inequality
Do Economic and Religious Liberty Have Anything to Do with Each Other?
Entrepreneurial Vocation
Islam 101
Taking Advantage of Freedom: Solzhenitsyn on What to Do With Liberty When You Have It
The Crisis of Responsibility: Main Street and the Financial Crisis of 2008
What is Conservatism?
10:45 AM to 12:05 PM
Session 6
An Introduction to Austrian Economics
Globalization and the Return of the Nation-State
John Wesley: Discipleship, Economic Liberty and the Common Good
Judaism and the Idea of Liberty
Kuyper, Colson, and the Idea of Restoring Culture
Taking Rites Seriously
The Gender Ideology and the Future of the Free Society
The Gender Wage Gap
Theology of Work
Thinking Theologically about Entrepreneurship: Why Does it Matter?
True Compassion: Case Studies in Effective Work with the Poor
12:05 PM to 2:00 PM
Lunch Break
2:00 PM to 3:45 PM
Open Session
3:45 PM to 5:05 PM
Session 7
Cultural Critiques of Capitalism
Does the Free Economy Stifle a Culture of Beauty?
How to Talk to Protestants about Natural Law
Income and Inequality
Islam, Reason, and Freedom
Socialized Medicine: Does it work and what should Christians think?
The Humanitarian Threat to Christianity
What Belongs to God, What Belongs to Caesar
Why Hayek Should Matter to Christians
6:00 PM
Dinner
7:00 PM
Evening Plenary
8:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Hospitality

Schedule Date
June 21, 2019

7:15 AM
Catholic Mass
7:15 AM
Protestant Prayer Service
8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM to 10:20 AM
Session 8
Lessons from Europe's Booze-Producing Capitalist Monks
Natural Law, Natural Theology, and the Protestant Critique: Are We Really That Far Apart?
Population Economics
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Does the Economy Help the Good Life
The Sharing Economy: Creativity and Growth
Was Jesus a Socialist?
10:45 AM to 12:05 PM
Session 9
Christian Realism for Terrifying Times
False Promise of Big Government
Hope for the Inner City
Intersectionality and the Socialist Temptation
John A. Ryan, Catholic Social Teaching, and the New Deal
Liberalism, Modernity, and its Discontents
The Roots of Christian Philanthropy
12:05 PM to 2:00 PM
Lunch Break
2:00 PM to 3:20 PM
Session 10
Consumerism and Asceticism
Distributism: Theory and Critique
Free Market Environmentalism
In Defense of the Nation-State
Jonathan Edwards, Private Property, and the National Covenant
Love and Economics: A Foundational Issue for a Free Society
Political Utopia
Poverty in the Developing World
The Rise and Fall of the American Judeo-Christian Consensus
3:45 PM to 5:05 PM
Session 11
Alexis de Tocqueville: The Man and His Times
Catholic Opposition to State Intervention Before Rerum novarum
Economics Among the Virtues
Education and the Free Society
Fair Trade vs. Free Trade
Globalization and Inequality
Kuyper, Roman Catholics, and Common-Cause Cooperation
The Alt-Right: A Christian Perspective
The Need for Christian Statesmanship
5:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Closing Reception
6:00 PM
Dinner
7:00 PM
Evening Plenary
8:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Hospitality