WORKSHOPS
AI + HUMAN DIGNITY
Alex Cook + Darrin Grove
Cambria East & West
This breakout session will focus on how AI can promote human flourishing. The breakout will be a conversation between two tech professionals currently integrating AI into their businesses, exploring foundational questions related to AI and its capacities to promote and potentially diminish human flourishing. This session will explore not only the big questions related to AI but will also offer practical insight into how Christians can faithfully and wisely engage Al in their everyday work.
LEARNING TO DISAGREE
John Inazu
Fayette
John Inazu will provide a short overview of the major themes and ideas in his latest book, Learning to Disagree. The bulk of this session will be devoted to answering questions from Jubilee Professional attendees.
ORGANIZATIONAL FAITHFULNESS
Kara Martin
Somerset West
We all know Christian entrepreneurs and organizations that have wandered away from their Christian roots: that school that no longer is particularly biblical in its values, that aid organization that elevates its activities but downplays its Christian purpose, the Christian entrepreneur that backs away from the distinctiveness of their start-up, or that not-for-profit that has removed the Christian origin story from its website. There has been a focus in the last decade on the dangers of mission drift, but what if the greater danger is theological drift? That is, a lack of attention to the organizational theology which Christians need so that their people and culture, marketing and fundraising practices match their mission rhetoric.
HINTS OF HOPE: ON MAKING PEACE WITH THE PROXIMATE
Steven Garber
Somerset East
In a world that often feels too much, overwhelming us with questions of what is real and true and right, the challenge is to keep our hearts alive to things that matter most. In this seminar, Steven Garber will speak about the heart of his new book, Hints of Hope, a long labor of love born of seeing and hearing the world all over the world, knowing many folks in many places who keep on keeping on, in hope.
TRADES AND THE DIGNITY OF WORK
Ian DeWaard, Bill Jones, Sean Purcell
Washington
Work is integral to understanding our place as God’s images in creation. Yet in our cultural moment the very understanding of what work is and why it matters is under strain from all kinds of technological developments. In this session we will have a conversation that will explore how the skilled trades can help us think through the potential dignity of work and to see more clearly what it is to be human and how we need both to follow Jesus in this good but fallen world.