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Church-based seminar series form a core activity of Veritas.  Each year, between 15 and 20 four-day seminars are held at churches around the world.  As a teaching, apologetic, and evangelistic ministry, our aim is to encourage and equip believers to cultivate a comprehensive and faithful Christian worldview, to persuasively reach the skeptic with the Gospel, and to help mobilize the Church to effectively further the cause of Christ.  To accomplish these purposes, seminars are designed to engage some of the most pressing ethical questions of our day.  In each instance, prevailing cultural arguments and trends are deconstructed and assessed, and the biblical Christian perspective on the issues involved are advanced and defended.  

Church-based seminars generally run from Sunday morning through Wednesday evening, with evening sessions usually followed by a time of question and answer.  Dr Evans serves as the speaker at each series.  Most churches complement their seminar series with a variety of formal and informal events featuring Dr Evans, including television and radio appearances, newspaper interviews, lectureships at local universities, medical schools and seminaries, and discussions with pastors, physicians, scientists, faculty, and legislators.  Seminars may be designed to meet the interests and needs of the sponsors.  

A typical seminar may look as follows:

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University, Medical School, and Seminary Lectureships

University and medical school lectureships are usually conducted through the Veritas Institute for the Study of Bioethics and Public Values, a subsidiary of Veritas Ministries International.  University and medical school lectureships are designed to provide a rigorous academic, philosophical, and ethical assessment of the latest developments in medicine and biotechnology.  Emphasis is placed upon an evaluation of the prevailing arguments that have been advanced in support of various medical and biotechnological activities, and offering an intellectually credible response to the same from the vantage point of Christian conviction.  

Seminary lectureships are designed to help current and future Christian leaders better understand the complexities of bioethical decision-making and to develop a biblical-theological approach to handling questions of moral and ethical choice confronting society and the Church.  Seminary lectureships place emphasis upon an evaluation of the prevailing arguments that have been advanced in support of various medical and biotechnological activities, and offering an intellectually credible and theologically informed response to the same from the vantage point of Christian conviction.

Dr Evans has rapidly become a favorite at Christian conferences, retreats, and camps.  The contemporary ethical issues confronting Christianity and culture (most specifically, bioethical issues) are of tremendous interest to people of all ages.  And there is no concern that the material will “go over everyone’s head.”  Dr Evans renders even the most difficult concepts accessible to the audience by appropriately adjusting his conference messages to the level of those in attendance and speaking in an engaging style marked by warmth, wisdom, and wit.

Rapid advancements in medical and biotechnology are confronting societies and their health professions with unprecedented ethical challenges.  Dr Evans is frequently invited to present academic papers and in-service training to health professionals and scientists on a wide range of contemporary bioethical issues including, genetic engineering, assisted reproductive technologies, the human genome, human embryonic stem-cell research, physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, the moral status of the embryo and fetus, and human cloning, among others.

Pastors, counselors, and Christian leaders are increasingly being called upon to offer support and guidance to those who are wrestling with very difficult medical-ethical choices from infertility and multiple fetal pregnancies, to alternative medicine and organ transplantation.  Unfortunately, very few pastors, counselors, or Christian leaders have been trained to handle these issues, and the consequences of uninformed counsel can be devastating.  As both theologian and psychologist, Dr Evans is uniquely qualified to offer two-day workshops designed to help pastors, counselors, and Christian leaders effectively lead others through some of the most challenging medical-ethical choices confronting society and the Church today.

Rapid advancements in medicine and biotechnology, along with the quandaries that attend, are occupying a prominent place both in the news and in daily conversation.  The issues of bioethics have quickly come to set societies around the globe in the grips of unprecedented ethical challenges, and the Church is rightly coming to view these issues as lying squarely at the heart of the Christian faith and message.  Not only are audiences fascinated by the subject matter, but the seminars offer a unique opportunity to reach relatively unevangelized people (e.g., physicians, scientists, and professionals) with the Gospel.  Consequently, when properly promoted, Veritas seminars tend to draw large crowds.

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